Even though advocates for senior citizens, nursing homes, and other healthcare professionals all have emphasized the need to plan for issues related to the end of life early on,

Parents, grandparents, legal guardians, and courts all can create special needs trusts for a disabled individual in order to help finance his or her Long-Term Care needs. In order

A recent Associated Press article details the plight of the middle and lower classes as they struggle to prepare for retirement and their accompanying healthcare costs. Most U.S. households

As our population ages, it is estimated that about 2.6 million die annually in the United States. While the death care industry has remained very traditional in terms of

Probate is the legal procedure for administering an individual’s estate after he or she passes away. In general, probate involves collecting and inventorying all of the deceased person’s assets,

According to the CDC, more than 34 million unpaid caregivers throughout the United States provide care for an adult over the age of 18 who is ill or disabled.

The aging process demands that you make a number of decisions about your future that are extremely important. While many think of taking legal steps to protect your future

Elder law is a very specialized area of the law, since it deals with a wide variety of legal issues and factors that predominantly affect individuals later in life.

A recent NPR story chronicles the fact that senior citizens are often in need of dental care, but rarely have any sort of insurance that covers dental care. Traditional

The OPTIMIST project is an initiative developed by a team of researchers from the Indiana University Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and the Regenstrief Institute, who have implemented the