Learn about powers of attorney for your parents, conservatorships, elder care planning, caregiving and long-term care arrangements, hospice care, preventing elder abuse, and other elder law problems.
Nursing Home Abuse of the Elderly
Find out how often elder abuse is in nursing facilities and what you can do about it.
Financial Scams Against Seniors: Elder Abuse
Senior citizen fraud may have a negative impact on an older person’s financial stability.
One of the most prevalent types of elder financial exploitation is power of attorney frauds.
Conservatorships, Powers of Attorney, and Guardianships
Making a Power of Attorney for an Elder
Here’s how to assist an older relative in executing a financial or medical power of attorney.
Your Duty to Pay Your Parent’s Nursing Home Bill
While the law may require you to pay your parent’s nursing home cost, the legislation may not be enforced.
Where to Begin When Caring for an Elderly Relative
As Americans live longer and longer lives, an increasing number of them need continuous, long-term care. This care is often left to adult children, men and women in their forties, fifties, and sixties who are busy with jobs or maybe children of their own. Getting stuck in the care-giving “sandwich” of growing children on one side and elderly parents on the other may be an emotional and financial hardship, particularly if you don’t know where to turn for assistance.
Homesharing for Seniors
Senior homesharing is a novel solution that allows seniors to save money while keeping their freedom.
Assisting Seniors in Managing Their Money and Finances
Advice on assisting elderly loved ones with money
Seniors’ Daily Money Management Programs
DMM programs provide personal financial support to elderly Americans who are unable to manage some parts of their finances.
10 Steps to Organizing the Finances of a Senior Widowed Parent
A manual for bereaved parents
