Before you can come up with an actual plan for your estate, you need to define what you want your future to look like. You know where you are now, if you took the time to assess your current situation by identifying the items in the April 30, 2010 blog. This is your starting point…
DetailsI will be providing estate-planning chapters, using this blog to help you with your estate. #1. Getting started with planning your estate. Answer these two questions. Are you going to die some day? What plans have you made in anticipation of that event? If your first answer is YES and your second answer is NONE or NOT…
DetailsAmazingly, this week on the radio I heard that Health and Welfare would suspend the funds they pay for “Meals On Wheels” for the last weeks in June! What are seniors supposed to eat for those weeks? The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has also suspended paying nursing homes for the Medicaid share of…
DetailsSusan M. Graham, Accredited VA Attorney and Certified Elder Law Attorney, Boise, Idaho David L. Henderson was discharged from the military in 1952, after serving on the front lines in the Korean War and was diagnosed of paranoid schizophrenia. He petitioned the VA for help with his service-connected condition in 2001. He represented himself, and…
DetailsWhat type of heath care do the elderly receive when they near the end of their life? Are the wishes they described in a Living Will or Health Power of Attorney actually followed? Information was gathered from a number of sources,including the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research that concluded patients who signed the…
DetailsThe following is a general checklist of steps that need to be taken at the time someone dies: 1. First arrange for care of the body. a. If the person died at home and hospice is not involved, call the Coroner’s office. b. Find out if the decedent left any funeral and burial instructions and…
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