Medicaid Rules

Since Congress passed a law designed to improve the quality of nursing homes 20 years ago, nursing homes have improved, but there are still a lo...

Crusading ElderLawAnswers member attorney Jim Zeigler has written a valuable, step-by-step guide to both crisis and advance long-term care planning.

Justice in Aging has published an updated version of its legal guide on how to resolve common nursing home problems.

Nursing homes are notoriously understaffed. Studies have shown that more staff leads to better care, but employees a...

Passing on money to the next generation is not as straightforward as it might seem. A father-and-son legal team has written a how-to guide to identifying and resolving the many inheritance problems that can arise.

A recently released study of Medicaid-financed nursing home use over 18 months in 2001 and 2002 finds that in states such as Oregon that have ex...

The last of the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) has been dismisse...

Caring for an ailing family member is difficult work, but it doesn't necessarily have to be unpaid work. There are programs available that allow Medicaid recipients to hire family members as caregivers.