- Category: Aging
- Choosing the “Right” Person to Help When you Need it
- City of Boise Age-Friendly Assessment Survey
- Do You Know Someone Living With Dementia?
- Estate Planning Includes Future Living Plans As Well
- How Vulnerable Are You To Predators?
- Is Your Plan to Stay in Your Home as You Age?
- Are You Just Forgetful, Or Could You Have Dementia?
- Maybe it’s Time to Quit Driving…
- New Protection for Nursing Home Residents
- New Protection for Nursing Home Residents – Not so fast…
- New Rules Improve the Lives of Nursing Home Residents
- No Need to Walk a Robot Dog
- On Medicare? What is the Best Supplemental Health Insurance for You?
- Pitfalls When Paying Your Adult Children to Help
- “Planning With a Terminal Illness” by Nicola Melby
- Reduce Your Risk of Falling at Home
- Video – Why do I Need a Health Power of Attorney?
- Do You Want to Ensure Your Independence as You Age?
- Watch out – Don’t Fall
- We Can’t Say “No”
- What are Housing Options for Seniors as They Age?
- What Happened to our Money?
- When You Don’t Know Where to Go
- Category: Caregivers
- Are you a caregiver?
- Caregiver Resources for Yourself or a Loved One
- Caregivers Reminder
- The Conveyor Belt of Aging – As People Age They Usually Fall Apart
- Driving, Dementia and Disability
- Help for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
- It may be awkward, but talk to your retired parents about their finances
- No One Noticed Uncle Andy Died – Four Years Ago
- Is it Time to Ask for Help?
- Who Plans on Being a Caregiver? You?
- Category: Death Administration
- Dismantle a Home – Dismantle a Life
- Estate Administration Mistakes
- Estate Administration: Who is The Right Person?
- Funeral Planning – If you don’t, who does?
- Where Do You Keep Your Important Papers?
- Did you know there is a Phase Two for Estate Planning?
- Your Music for the Last Weeks of Your Life
- My Husband Died. Do I Need to Probate His Estate?
- You Have Been Nominated as Personal Representative! Lucky you?
- Have you written your obituary?
- Planning for Your Funeral
- What To Do When Someone Dies. A Checklist.
- Does my Trust or Estate Need a Tax ID Number?
- How Will Your Friends Know When You Die?
- Who Gets Your “Stuff” When You Die?
- How Will I Know When You Die?
- Category: Estate Planning
- 10 Steps to Take After the Death of a Loved One
- 13 Steps To Maintain Your Independence, Protect Your Assets and Protect Your Family
- 5 Common Mistakes with Old Estate Plans
- 6 Ways to Pay for Long-Term Care
- Estate Plan Mess – What Not To Do
- Add Password Information as Part of Your Estate Plan
- Add Your Voice to Your Estate Papers
- Aging Parents Worry About Their Adult Children with Disabilities
- Do you Have the Wrong Beneficiary Name
- Button Collection in Your Estate Plan
- Can you really put “time in a bottle?”
- Why Is the City Digging Up Telephone Poles?
- Concerned About Bureaucrats’ Involvement in Your Personal Affairs?
- How To Create Your Own Estate Plan
- Create Your Own Safety Net
- What is the difference between Wills and Trusts?
- Do You Really Want to Disinherit a Child?
- Eight Pennies in My Pocket
- Is Your Estate Plan a Bag Over Your Head?
- Has Your Estate Plan Fallen Apart Due to Neglect?
- Is Your Estate Plan a Bag Over Your Head?
- Do You Have an Estate Plan that Reflects Your Personal Goals?
- Estate Planning and Dogs – Do They Go Together?
- Estate Planning for Same-Sex Married Couples
- Estate Planning – Who Gets Your Personal Property
- Estate Planning: Giving an Early Inheritance – Caution
- Estate Planning – Are You an Organ Donor?
- Estate Planning – Who Will Take Care of Your Pets?
- Estate Planning – Wills and Trusts
- A Fresh Start – 7 Ways to Get Organized
- There is a Fun Side to Estate Planning
- It’s Your Funeral…
- It’s Your Funeral (Part Two)
- Who Gets the Grandfather Clock?
- “I Give $5,000 to George to Care for my Houseplant.” Really?
- Is Your Graduated Child Prepared for Adulthood and a Secure Future?
- Do You Have the Right “Agents”?
- Help Idaho Legal Aid Services – So They Can Continue to Help Seniors and Low Income Idahoans
- How Does an Inheritance Trust Work?
- How often should you review your estate plan?
- Revocable Trust – How to Title Assets
- Idaho Law Change for Married Persons’ Estate Plan to Save Taxes
- Idaho Legal Aid Services Funding
- Identity Theft Protection as Part of an Estate Plan
- If You Can’t Speak Up, Who Will Make Your Health Decisions (During a Pandemic)?
- What is an Incentive Trust?
- Giving an Inheritance to Someone Receiving Government Benefits
- Inheritance Taxes
- Inheritance Trust
- How Does an Inheritance Trust Work?
- Inspired Philanthropy
- My Irrigation Well is Fried – Why Is Life Difficult When I Did Everything Right?
- IRS COVID-19 Taxpayer Relief for Retirement Plans
- Keeping your Estate Plan Up-to-Date
- Lame Duck Congress-Down to the Wire on Estate Taxes
- A Large Inheritance – How to Keep It.
- Life Insurance and Your Estate Plan
- Too Many Fall Leaves
- It’s Your Money – Not Your Kids’
- Need To Change An Estate Plan Heavily Invested in BP?
- New Idaho Law Impacts “Digital Assets” and Estate Planning
- New Idaho Laws
- A New Start –30 Minutes of Focus on Your Estate Plan
- New Tax Bill Affecting Retirement Accounts
- How Does the New Tax Law Impact You and Your Estate Plan?
- New Tax Laws — an opportunity to review your plan
- Why Not Put a Home in a Child’s Name?
- Now You Have A Vision, How Will You Get There? What Is Your Plan?
- How Often to Review Your Estate Plan
- Oh-Oh! Your Aging Relatives Need Help. What Should You Do?
- Planning With A “Last Will And Testament”: What Does That Mean?
- What is a POST Form, and Why Do I Need it?
- Protect Your Children’s Inheritance
- Secure your Retirement – A New Year Resolution
- Seven Habits – It does not hurt to be reminded
- Should You Panic if you Have no Estate Planning Documents?
- Special Needs Trusts
- Start Estate Planning at the Beginning – a Baby!
- Susan M Graham featured on Moving America Forward
- It Takes Work to Die
- How Do You Talk To Your Elderly Parents About Their Money? [And Not Sound Greedy?]
- What to tell your children about your affairs?
- The Idaho Health Care Directive Registry is Worthless
- It’s Time To Get A Grip
- It’s Time for Spring Cleaning
- Treatment of Legal Same-Sex Marriages for Federal Tax Purposes
- Your True Wealth and Wisdom – Have You Shared It?
- Your Values vs. Your Valuables. Which is Worth More to Your Heirs?
- Video – The Difference Between Wills and Trusts
- What Is Your Vision Of Your Future?
- Want to Protect Your Children’s Inheritance
- What about my passwords?
- What is a POST form?
- When Should You Stop Driving?
- Who is on Your Professional Team?
- Whoever Dies Last Wins!
- Why You Need a “Safety Net”
- Will California Tax Your Trust?
- Who Will Care for Your Best Friend?
- Who Will Fight Over Your Estate When You Die?
- Wishing Does Not Make It So!
- Wolf Tracks at My Farm
- Have You Written Your Obituary?
- Do You Have The Wrong Beneficiary Name?
- Do Young Adults Need Estate Planning Documents?
- Have You Shared Your True Wealth and Wisdom?
- Category: Estate Taxes
- Category: Financial
- 2013 Property Tax Reduction Program
- Amazing Role Models – Shame on You
- Should you convert your Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA?
- What a Difference a Week Makes! – Different Tax Rules?
- Easy Steps To Make Your Power of Attorney Work
- Financial Crimes Against the Elderly
- Freezing Your Credit is Now Free
- How to get a “Stepped-Up” Capital Gains Basis for 2010 Estates
- New Tax Basis Rules and Estate Tax Repeal Jan1st
- Oops! I forgot to pay that bill.
- Are you Supporting your Grown Children? Could it be Financial Exploitation?
- Your Taxes are going up starting January 1, 2013
- Two Unusual Resolutions for the New Year
- Will You Outlive Your Money?
- Category: General
- 11 Things They Did Not and Will Not Learn in School
- Balancing Idaho’s Budget On Backs Of Seniors And Disabled
- I Called My Father “Papa”
- Change in Idaho Voter Law and ID Requirements
- Changes For Idaho Seniors: Some Good And Some Bad
- Your Child’s “Scorecard”
- Have You Been to a “Death Dinner”?
- My Dogs Ate My Salad!
- My Father-In-Law Quit Driving!
- Are You Fed Up Yet? How About An Amendment to Make Congress More Accountable?
- Federal Law vs. Idaho Laws for Same-Sex Couples
- Idaho Senior Legal Hotline Expands Services and Hours
- Important Family Stories
- Important Notice – The Idaho Humane Society Really Needs Your Help
- Increased FDIC Coverage Extended
- Inherited IRAs are no Longer Protected in Bankruptcy. Can This be Fixed?
- Is it Time to Give up Your Guns?
- Do You Know How to Keep Your Inheritance Separate from Your Married Assets?
- Who Knows Your Passwords?
- What is Life after Life?
- You May Want to Write Your Own Obituary
- McDonald’s Clashes with Seniors…Why?
- “Moving America Forward” Honors Susan M. Graham
- New Year’s Resolutions are Quickly Forgotten – So Try These
- Oops, now you have to write an obituary. How?
- Overwhelmed by Technology?
- Supporting Your Adult Children – A Money Mistake for Retirees
- Susan Graham – My Story
- Thanksgiving – A Time for Stories
- Thanksgiving – A Time for Stories
- Thanksgiving – A Time For Stories (Repeating what I shared with you last year)
- Watch Out for Elder Abuse
- Wisdom from 95 Year Olds
- Category: Guardian/Conservator
- Category: Health
- Advance Directive for Decision Making Before Death
- Some Day You May Be Miss [or Mr.] Daisy. Are you ready?
- Dementia – The Most Costly Illness. An Idaho Twist.
- Elder Abuse: Do You Know What That Is?
- The Elder Justice Act Passed. Why You Should Care?
- End-of-Life Treatment – “Do Not Resuscitate”?
- Frank Talk About Care at Life’s End
- Give the Greatest Gift – Peace of Mind
- Health equals happiness
- Joking About Forgetfulness Can Backfire
- Do You Know the Signs of a Stroke?
- A MacArthur Genius Grant is Awarded to An Elder Abuse Lawyer. Yeah!
- When do You Need a Conservator or a Guardian?
- A New Year – Time to Think About Safety and Security
- Palliative Care vs. Hospice Care
- Proud to be a Gold Medal Sponsor of the 2012 Idaho Senior Games
- Ten Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s
- Are You Unprepared for a Pandemic?
- Want Advice From Those in the Last 1/3 of Their Lives?
- Would You Want Your Enemy As Your Guardian?
- Who Will Go With You to Emergency Room When You Need Help?
- Who will talk to your doctor when you can’t?
- Category: Housing
- Category: Long-term Care
- 2 Reasons To Disinherit Your Spouse
- 2013 Idaho Price Guide to Long-Term Care Insurance and Services
- 5-year “look-back” Period for Long-term Care Planning May Be Increased!
- Do You Know a Child May Have To Pay for Their Elderly Parent’s Care? Ouch!
- New Report Reveals Over-Use of Anti-Psychotics in Nursing Homes
- NSCLC Issues an Updated 20 “Common Nursing Home Problems”
- How to Pay for Long-Term Care
- How to pay for Long-Term Care – Another Study
- How To Pay For Long-Term Care? – Veterans Benefits Continued: The Asset Test
- Are You Prepared?
- Are You at Risk of Needing Long-Term Care?
- Are there steps you can take to reduce your chances of getting Alzheimer’s?
- Veterans Face Losing Long-Term Care Lifeline Because of VA Proposed Rule
- A Village Concept for Boise to “age in place” in your home.
- Category: Medicaid
- Compare VA to Medicaid
- Idaho Town Meeting – How is Idaho Responding to its Aging Population?
- Did you know, Medicaid is a “Loan Program” for Seniors?
- How to pay for Long-Term Care – The Medicaid Program
- How To Pay For Long-Term Care? – The Medicaid Program (Continued)
- How To Pay For Long-Term Care?-The Medicaid Program Continued – The Medicaid Asset Test
- How to Pay for Long-Term Care Using Medicaid
- How to Pay a Relative to Care for Dad without Stepping on a Land Mine
- Will you Lose your House if you are on Medicaid?
- Category: Medicare
- “Admitted” to the Hospital vs. “Observation”
- Who Is Eligible For Medicare?
- There Go The Social Safety Nets – to help pay for catastrophic long-term care!
- Hospital “Observation” Status – Federal Legislation Update
- What is Medicare?
- Medicare Coverage Denial
- Medicare Plan Review-Limited Time Only-Don’t Wait!!!
- Medicare Tosses the “Improvement Standard”
- Medicare Won’t Pay for Your Hospital Stay – How Can That Be?
- What are Medicare’s Future Financing Challenges?
- New Medicare Cards Are On The Way
- There is a New Way to File a Complaint with Medicare
- Will Medicare Pay Your Hospital Bill If You Are Over 65? Maybe.
- Category: Probate
- Category: Retirement
- Category: Social Security
- Category: Uncategorized
- Category: Veterans Benefits
- Your Bucket List: [Remember: Your Deadline is Approaching…]
- Is Elder Law Just Alzheimer’s, Medicaid and Veterans Administration (VA) Benefit Planning? NO!
- How To Pay For Long-Term Care – Veterans Benefits
- “Tough Luck” If You Miss A VA Deadline
- URGENT – SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT CHANGES IN VA LAW
- Are You a Veteran? Do you qualify for a Presumptive Disability Benefit?
- Veteran Receiving Non-service Connected Pension and Aid and Attendance Benefits – VA Demand for Overpayment
- A Veteran’s Benefit Is Available To Help Pay For Care.
- Veteran’s Benefits – Prescription Drug Program
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