You’ve moved your mom or dad into a nursing home. You’re breathing a sigh of relief. The stress of caring for your parent is now behind you. You can rest easy knowing that they’ll be well cared for by skilled nursing staff, right?

Unfortunately, long-term care is expensive. In some parts of the U.S., it can run as much as $12,000 per month. Do you know where the money will come from to pay for your parents’ care? What if your mom or dad can no longer pay the bill? Can you, the adult child, be held responsible?

Blended family situations can create challenges when a spouse needs long-term care. An attorney in a Life Care Planning Law Firm outlines the risks.

If you’ve been married more than once and there are children from former marriages in the picture, estate planning is often tricky. Things can be even more challenging when you or your current spouse need long-term care. How can blended family situations create problems?

What's a typical day like for an elder care coordinator in a Life Care Planning Law Firm? Kyra Clements, one of the elder care coordinators at Elder Law of East Tennessee, a Life Care Planning Law Firm with offices in Knoxville and Johnson City, tells the story in her own words.

The only thing typical about my day is the outcome I’m trying to achieve for my clients. My job is to ensure the best quality of life and the best quality of care for my elderly clients.

When an elderly loved one needs to be placed in a facility and the response is NO WAY, what do you do?

We posed this delicate question to Janice Fitchhorn, an elder care coordinator at Truhlsen Elder Care Law of Nebraska, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Blair, Nebraska. Janice sees this situation quite frequently.

In the first article in this series, we talked about how Care Plans are developed shortly after an older adult is admitted to a long-term care facility. What happens with the Care Plan if the stay is longer? 

The internet has changed many things in our society, including estate planning. Google the term “estate planning documents” and you will get nearly 200 million search results, many of them from companies who offer downloadable documents at low prices. This may seem like a great deal for the average consumer. But is it?

What is elder law? What is Life Care Planning? How do they compare? One of the best ways to answer that question is to talk to someone who has worked under both law practice models, someone like Jason Penrod, an attorney at Family Elder Law, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in Lakeland, Florida.

If you’re one of the 40 million people in this country who are caring for older relatives, have you ever felt like you just can’t do it anymore…but then you keep going? If the answer is yes, you’re probably flirting with caregiver burnout. What are the signs and symptoms of burnout? Carolyn Northrop can answer this question. An elder care coordinator at Strohschein Law Group, a Life Care Planning Law Firm in St. Charles, Illinois, Carolyn says that caregivers on the verge of burnout often show these signs: