Senior Living

When hiring a caregiver, it is important to put the contract in writing. If you don't it can affect your Medicaid benefits.

Five states have enacted laws giving terminally ill patients access to experimental drugs, and 25 other states are considering similar legislation.  But it’s unclear whether these so-called “right-to-try” laws will help anyone other than state legislators embracing a politically popular...

We accumulate a lot of stuff over a lifetime and at some point – perhaps due to death, divorce, debt, or downsizing – we need to get rid of it. An estate sale is one way to dispose of possessions...

The median cost of a private nursing home room in the United States has increased 4.2 percent to $91,250 a year, according to the 2015 edition of a Cost of Care survey that the insurer Genworth has conducted for the past...

ElderLawAnswers member attorney Kimberly Harris has won the State Bar of Georgia’s annual fiction writing contest. ...

In a move that could be confusing to seniors who are vulnerable to scams, the IRS will begin using private debt collection agencies to collect past-due taxes.

Although depression was initially given as the cause of actor Robin Williams’ suicide in 2014, his widow says autopsy results lay the blame on Lewy body dementia, a fairly common but hard-to-diagnose form of dementia. ...

Most long-term care involves assisting with basic personal needs rather than providing medical care.

Planning for retirement and deciding whether to buy long-term care insurance would be a lot easier if you knew your odds of needing long-term care, as well as at what age and for how long.