PRE-ORDER
This practical handbook equips attorneys with comprehensive guidance on the legal, financial, healthcare, and advocacy issues affecting older adults. Covering topics from social security, Medicare, Medicaid planning, disability and guardianship to nursing home litigation, elder abuse, housing discrimination, pensions, tax planning, and neuropsychology, it provides essential analysis and practice-focused insights for elder law practitioners and attorneys serving aging clients and their families.
Chapter 1 — Planning for Social Security or Railroad Retirement Benefits
Peter J. Orlowicz and Patrick S. Polk, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Medicare and Long-Term Care Insurance
Heather E. Voorn and Kristin Wood, Voorn, Preston, & Carlasare, 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, PC, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Planning for Disability
Heidi E. Dodd and Kelly A. Wambold, Dodd & Wambold, O’Fallon
Chapter 5 — Guardianship for Adults with Disabilities
Heather E. Voorn and Kathleen Rock, Voorn, Preston, & Carlasare, PLLC, New Lenox
Chapter 6 — Personal Injury and Wrongful-Death Actions Under the Nursing Home Care Act
Steven M. Levin and Michael F. Bonamarte IV, Levin & Perconti, Chicago
Chapter 7— Nursing Homes and Life-Care Communities
Catherine E. Lenert and Lydia Park, Mickey, Wilson, Weiler, Renzi, Lenert, & Julien, P.C., Sugar Grove
Chapter 8 — Analyzing Long-Term Care Admissions Contracts
Amy J. Delaney, DDV Law, LTD., and Makedonka Baloski, Kelleher + Holland, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 9 — Pensions and Other Employee Benefits
Lee T. Polk, The Wagner Law Group, Chicago
Chapter 10 — Grandparents’ Rights
Andrea K. Muchin and Brittany Heitz Goodlett, Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck LLP, Chicago
Chapter 11 — Survey of Elder Abuse and Neglect in Illinois
L. Kaye DeSelms Dent and Steven Milburn, Dent Coulson Elder Law, LLC, Effingham
Chapter 12 — Protecting Seniors from Discrimination in Housing
Brian L. Stephens and Tanja Cook, Land of Lincoln Legal Aid, Alton
Chapter 13 — Tax Planning for the Elderly
Krystian Seebert, CaoLaw PC, Marina Del Rey, CA
Chapter 14 — Demystifying Neuropsychology in Elder Law Practice
Colin A. Brietzke, Psy.D., Chicagoland Neuropsychology LLC, Oak Park, and Heather E. Voorn, Voorn, Preston, & Carlasare, PLLC, New Lenox
