Elder Law

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In decision-making, health care providers of long-term care regularly face a struggle between moral imperatives, medical technology, and financial considerations. This volume addresses crucial ethical issues, including advance directives (living wills), autonomy of the frail elders, home vs. institutional care, termination of treatment, and comfort care. It also discusses multicultural issues and the treatment of dementia patients. The volume is a vital resource for all long-term care professionals, as well as for academics and students concerned with ethics in health care.

Written by nationally-known elder law practitioners, Robert B. Fleming and Lisa Nachmias Davis, the Elder Law Answer Book gathers the most current legal, regulatory, and practice guidelines from the core topics of elder law, long-term care, estate planning, retirement planning, healthcare decision making, and rights of the elderly.

Finding the right long-term care often means making difficult decisions during difficult times. Whether planning for the future or needing to make a quick decision, Long-Term Care helps to understand the alternatives to nursing facilities and shows how to find the best care one can afford. The completely updated edition includes an expanded discussion of Medicaid coverage, special long-term care insurance, assisted living, and long-term care. Plus, get up-to-date benefit numbers, laws and taxes, and revised information on veterans' benefits.

Providing everything an attorney needs to advise elderly clients and their families about nursing, residential, and continuing care facilities, this text offers a practical approach to issues such as selecting the best type of facility, admissions policies and agreements. Supplemented by looseleaf updates.

The Senior Care Acquisition Report gives you hard-to-find data metrics and insightful analyses of all this year’s senior care mergers and acquisitions.. Get the specific details of every publicly-announced transaction for the previous year shown visually for the C-suite, while incorporating all data for a comprehensive analysis of the senior care M&A market.