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  • 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?
    • 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?
    • 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?
    • 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
    • What is an Incentive Trust?
    • Giving an Inheritance to Someone Receiving Government Benefits
    • Inheritance Trust
    • How Does an Inheritance Trust Work?
    • Inspired Philanthropy
    • My Irrigation Well is Fried – Why Is Life Difficult When I Did Everything Right?
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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?
    • 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?
    • When Should You Stop Driving?
    • Who is on Your Professional Team?
    • Whoever Dies Last Wins!
    • 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
    • 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
    • Good News For the New Year – No Death Tax for most people!
    • Do You Know Your Taxes Are Going Up?
    • State Death Taxes May Catch You
    • Traditional Death Tax Estate Planning
  • 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
    • Idaho New Guardianship laws are more cumbersome starting July 1, 2013.
    • Pitfalls of Being a 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
    • 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
    • 3 basic considerations when moving in with your children
  • 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
    • “Boise at Home” is a-coming!
    • Did You Know June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day?
    • When Should You Take Social Security? At Age 62? 66? 70?
  • Category: Social Security
    • Married: Let Uncle Sam Pay You More Social Security
    • You Are Single – How Does Social Security Fit Into Your Estate Plan?
  • Category: Uncategorized
    • Estate Planning Includes a Personal “Safety Net” Plan
    • Estate Planning is Planning for Living Too
  • 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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