This handbook covers the law, resources, and practical tips to plan for your older clients’ needs and advocate their interests. It gives you thorough, practical guidance on methods for dealing with Social Security and railroad retirement benefits; Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care insurance; Illinois medical assistance for long-term care; planning for incapacity; guardianship for disabled adults; planning for disability; personal injury and wrongful-death actions under the Nursing Home Care Act; nursing homes and life-care communities; understanding long-term care admissions contracts; pensions and other employee benefits; consumer fraud and older Illinoisans; grandparents’ rights; elder abuse and neglect; protecting seniors from discrimination in housing; and tax planning for the elderly. It also contains a chapter on demystifying neuropsychology in elder law practice to help with working with clients and opposing parties who may suffer from diminished mental capacity and editable forms that can be used in your practice.
Chapter 1 — Planning for Social Security or Railroad Retirement Benefits
Hon. Michael R. Robinson, Illinois Human Rights Commission, Springfield, and Peter J. Orlowicz and Patrick S. Polk, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Chicago,
Chapter 2 — Medicare and Long-Term Care Insurance
Heather E. Voorn, Voorn, Jaworski & Preston, PLLC, New Lenox
Chapter 3 — Illinois Medical Assistance for Long-Term Care: Nursing Homes, Supportive Living Facilities, and Community Care Program Services
Helen Mesoloras, Dutton, Casey & Mesoloras, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 4 — Planning for Incapacity: Powers of Attorney, Living Trusts, and Forms of Ownership
Elisha D. Sanders and Casey L. Twomey, Sanders & Twomey, LLC, Marion
Chapter 5 — Guardianship for Adults with Disabilities
Sharon R. Rudy, Sharon R. Rudy, P.C., Rockford, and Amanda Adams Martinez, The Law Office of Amanda Adams Martinez LLC, Loves Park
Chapter 6 — Planning for Disability: The Powers of Attorney for Health Care Law, the Illinois Living Will Act, the Health Care Surrogate Act, and the Agency-Court Relationship Statute
Pauline G. Dembicki, Law Offices of Pauline G. Dembicki, Evanston
Chapter 7 — Personal Injury and Wrongful-Death Actions Under the Nursing Home Care Act
Steven M. Levin and Michael F. Bonamarte IV, Levin & Perconti, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Nursing Homes and Life-Care Communities
Catherine E. Lenert, Mickey, Wilson, Weiler, Renzi, Lenert & Julien, P.C., Sugar Grove
Chapter 9 — Analyzing Long-Term Care Admissions Contracts
Amy J. Delaney, and Makedonka Baloski, DDV Law, Ltd., Chicago, Oak Brook, and Orland Park
Chapter 10 — Pensions and Other Employee Benefits
Lee T. Polk,The Wagner Law Group, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 11 — Consumer Fraud and Older Illinoisans
Sheryl M. Weikal, McHenry
Chapter 12 — Grandparents’ Rights
Andrea K. Muchin and Brittany Heitz Goodlett, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, Chicago
Chapter 13 — Survey of Elder Abuse and Neglect in Illinois
Jaye R. Lindsay, Crossroad Legal, LLC, Edwardsville
Chapter 14 — Protecting Seniors from Discrimination in Housing
Michael P. Seng, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Chicago
Chapter 15 — Tax Planning for the Elderly
Ben A. Neiburger and Krystian R. Seebert, Generation Law, Ltd., Elmhurst
Chapter 16 — Demystifying Neuropsychology in Elder Law Practice
Colin A. Brietzke, Psy.D., Chicagoland Neuropsychology LLC, Oak Park, and Heather E. Voorn, Voorn, Jaworski, & Preston, PLLC, New Lenox and Chicago
