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Today's Q&A on ElderCareMatters.com discusses our role in linking families across America to competent elder care experts

Every day, more and more families from across America are relying on ElderCareMatters.com to help them find competent "Elder Care Experts" who are located near them and who can help them with a wide range of elder care matters, such as legal services, financial planning, home care, senior housing, adult day care, geriatric care management, money management, insurance services, aging in place services, etc. 

Below are just a few of the many emails that ElderCareMatters.com receives daily from families across America requesting help with their elder care matters:

  • I am looking for help for my 77 year sister who lives in Louisiana and has been abandoned by her children.  Can you help me? 
  • I need to locate someone to provide home care for my wife.  We live in New Jersey.  Can you help us? 
  • We need to find senior transportation services in the Miami area.  Can you help us? 
  • My mother has been injured in an Assisted Living Home in Arizona and we need an attorney with whom to discuss this legal matter.  Can you help us? 
  • Can you help me locate elder care experts in the Jacksonville, Florida area?

If you are a competent, caring professional who helps families plan for and/or deal with elder care matters, then you should definitely become a professional member of the national Elder Care Matters Alliance and you should be listed on ElderCareMatters.com – America's #1 source for Elder Care Experts, Information & Answers about Elder Care Matters.  Professional membership is just $15/month.

To request an Application for Membership to the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, send us an email at:  info@ElderCareMatters.com

Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO, ElderCare Matters, LLC
ElderCareMatters.com

Question of the Day on ElderCareMatters.com: "I am an Elder Care Professional with 15 years experience in helping families with their elder care matters. Should I be listed on ElderCareMatters.com?"

Answer:  If you are a professional who helps families plan for or deal with ANY of their elder care matters, then you owe it to yourself to be listed on America's #1 online source for "Elder Care Experts"….

ElderCareMatters.com

ElderCareMatters.com is where you will find more than 2,000 competent, caring elder care experts located across America, including:

  • Elder Law Attorneys
  • Estate Planning Advisors
  • Financial Planners
  • Investment Advisors
  • Geriatric Care Managers
  • Insurance Professionals
  • Life Care Planners
  • Professional Organizers
  • Reverse Mortgage Lenders
  • Senior Move Managers
  • Senior Real Estate Professionals
  •  Tax Advisors
  • Aging in Place Professionals
  • Daily Money Managers
  • And other elder care experts with long and successful careers working with seniors and their families

This is also where you will find some of America's best:

  • Assisted Living Communities
  • Alzheimer's / Memory Care Communities
  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities
  • Home Care Agencies

Together, we provide families across America with:

  • Unparalleled professional expertise
  • Up-to-date elder care information & answers to your elder care questions
  • Competent, caring assistance with a wide range of elder care services

So if you are a competent, caring elder care professional who helps families with ANY of their elder care matters, then request today an Application for Membership in the national ElderCare Matters Alliance and get listed on ElderCareMatters.com - America's #1 source for "Elder Care Experts" plus information and answers about a wide range of elder care matters.

Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO
ElderCare Matters, LLC
ElderCareMatters.com

 

 

 

Question of the Day on ElderCareMatters.com: "Would you please provide me with a list of all the 87 different elder care services that the members of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance provide on ElderCareMatters.com?"

Answer:  It is my pleasure to provide you with the following list of the 87 different elder care services that are currently provided by the members of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance on ElderCareMatters.com:

  1. Accounting Services
  2. Adult Day Care
  3. Advance Medical Directives
  4. Aging in Place Services
  5. Alzheimer's / Memory Care Communities
  6. Annuities
  7. Arbitration
  8. Asset Protection Planning
  9. Assisted Living Communities
  10. Assisted Living Referral Services
  11. Bankruptcy
  12. Bill Paying
  13. Budgeting
  14. Caregiving Education
  15. Companion Care
  16. Conservatorship
  17. Consumer Law
  18. Continuing Care Retirement Communities
  19. Cremation Services
  20. Crisis Intervention
  21. Daily Money Management
  22. Dementia Care
  23. Disability Income Insurance
  24. Disability Planning
  25. Elder Abuse Litigation Services
  26. Elder Law
  27. ElderCare Planning
  28. Estate Administration
  29. Estate Liquidation
  30. Estate Planning
  31. Family Law
  32. Financial Planning
  33. Funeral Services
  34. Geriatric Care Management
  35. Guardianship
  36. Health Insurance
  37. Hoarding Clean Up and Coaching Services
  38. Home Care
  39. Home Downsizing Services
  40. Home Health Care
  41. Home Modifications
  42. Hospice Care
  43. Independent Living Communities
  44. Investment Services
  45. Life Care Planning
  46. Life Insurance
  47. Litigation
  48. Long Term Care Insurance
  49. Long Term Care Planning
  50. Medicaid Planning
  51. Medical Services
  52. Medical Alert Systems
  53. Medical Claims Processing
  54. Medical Equipment & Supplies
  55. Medical Malpractice Litigation
  56. Medicare Consulting
  57. Medicare Supplemental Insurance
  58. Medication Management Services
  59. Moving Services
  60. Nursing Homes
  61. Personal Finance
  62. Powers of Attorney
  63. Probate
  64. Professional Organizing
  65. Public / Non-Profit Resources
  66. Real Estate Services
  67. Rehabilitation Services
  68. Residential Psychiatric Care
  69. Respite Care
  70. Retirement Planning
  71. Reverse Mortgages
  72. Securities Arbitration & Litigation Services
  73. Senior Housing
  74. Senior Move Management
  75. Senior Move Planning
  76. Senior Relocation Services
  77. Social Security Disability Services
  78. Special Needs Planning
  79. Tax Law
  80. Tax Planning
  81. Tax Preparation
  82. Transportation Services
  83. Trustee / Fiduciary Services
  84. Trusts
  85. VA Benefits
  86. Wills
  87. Wound Care

The goal of ElderCareMatters.com is to provide families across America with the help they need to plan for and deal with their elder care matters.  Let us know if there are other elder care services that you would like to have us list on ElderCareMatters.com – America's #1 source for Elder Care Experts plus information & answers about a wide range of elder care matters.

Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO, ElderCare Matters, LLC
ElderCareMatters.com
1-877-379-4500

Question of the Day on ElderCareMatters.com: "Is there a certain number of Elder Care Experts that will be accepted into the national Elder Care Matters Alliance? Specifically, will the Alliance have a maximum number of experts in each service category for each state chapter?"

Answer:  Our commitment at ElderCare Matters is to provide families across America with elder care resources (Experts, Information & Answers) to help them plan for and deal with their elder care matters.  To this end, we have no set # of experts that we will showcase on ElderCareMatters.com but rather we are inviting ALL competent, caring elder care professionals across America to become a part of this phenonmenal elder care resource.

ElderCare Matters is where you will find 1,579 Elder Care Experts near YOU (and this # is growing daily) who have years of experience in helping families with elder care matters, including:

  • Elder Law Attorneys
  • Estate Planning Advisors
  • Financial & Investment Advisors
  • Geriatric Care Managers
  • Insurance Professionals
  • Reverse Mortgage Lenders
  • Senior Move Managers
  • Tax Advisors
  • Daily Money Managers
  • Other elder experts with long and successful careers working with seniors and their families

This is also where you will find some of America's best:

  • Assisted Living Communities
  • Alzheimer's / Memory Care Communities
  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities
  • Home Care Agencies

So if you help families plan for and/or deal with elder care matters and you are a competent, caring elder care professional, then you should be listed on ElderCareMatters.com – America's #1 source for Elder Care Experts plus information and answers about a wide range of elder care matters.

To request an Application for Membership to the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, send an email directly to: info@ElderCareMatters.com

Phillip G. Sanders, MBA, MSHA, CPA
Founder & CEO of ElderCare Matters
ElderCareMatters.com
1-877-379-4500

This Week's Featured Elder Care Expert on ElderCareMatters.com is Dennis B. Sullivan, Esq., CPA, LLM

Dennis B. Sullivan, Esq., CPA, LLM
888 Worcester Street, Suite 260
Wellesley, Massachusetts  02482
781-237-2815
www.EstatePlanandAssetProtection.com
Member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, Massachusetts chapter

This week's Featured Elder Care Expert is Dennis B. Sullivan, Esq., CPA, LLM, Member of the Massachusetts chapter of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance (a network of  1,500+ elder care experts across America). 

Mr. Sullivan has over 25 years of experience helping individuals and families with tax, estate, and asset protection planning. 

Every day this week (M-F), Attorney Sullivan will answer one of your questions about his areas of expertise (Tax, Estate Planning, Asset Protection Planning), and this selected question along with Mr. Sullivan's answer will be posted on the Featured Elder Care Question of the Day section of ElderCareMatters.com.

So if you would like to ask Mr. Sullivan a question about your elder care matter, just send a short email (a few sentences only please) to: questions@ElderCareMatters. com.  

And remember to bookmark ElderCareMatters.com and check back often to see if your question is our Featured Elder Care Question of the Day.

Question of the Day on ElderCareMatters.com: "My brother has a severe handicap due to a birth defect. He has been receiving disability benefits through social security, as well as some state aid. When my parents die, if my brother inherits from my parent’s estate, will he be denied benefits due to the inheritance?"

Answer:  In most cases I have recommended that the parents set up a living trust using "handicapped" language for the disabled child. This provides the disabled child supplemental care without loss of federal or state benefits and provides a better lifestyle. In addition, other children that are not disabled or handicapped can inherit their shares in a normal manner. There is no need to "disinherit" the disabled or handicapped individual. 

In some cases a "Medicaid payback" trust may be used where the disability is the result of an injury or an accident and there is a sizeable insurance settlement that might reduce or eliminate Medicaid benefits. The theory is that the settlement dollars will be invested and the "payback" to Medicaid upon the death of the beneficiary will still leave a significant amount for the beneficiary's heirs, siblings or others.

To find competent elder care professionals who are located near You and can help you with this type of elder care matter, go to: www.ElderCareMatters.com - A FREE online resource to find elder care experts plus elder care information & answers to your elder care questions.

William "Bill" Brown, Attorney at Law
2999 E. Dublin-Granville Road
Suite 217
Columbus, Ohio  43231-4030
614-890-9099
Member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, Ohio chapter

This week's Featured Elder Care Expert on ElderCareMatters.com is William "Bill" Brown, Attorney at Law

William "Bill" Brown, Attorney at Law
2999 E. Dublin-Granville Road
Suite 217
Columbus, Ohio  43231
614-890-9099
Member of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance, Ohio chapter

This week's Featured Elder Care Expert is William "Bill" Brown, Attorney at Law, Member of the Ohio chapter of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance (a network of  almost 1,500 elder care experts).  Attorney Brown has practiced in the areas of probate, elder law, trusts and estate planning for over 50 years, and is the author of "Trusts" and "Estate Planning a Practical Guide".

Every day this week (M-F), Mr. Brown will answer one of your questions about his areas of expertise , and this selected question along with Mr. Brown's answer will be posted on the Featured Elder Care Question of the Day section of ElderCareMatters.com.

So if you would like to ask Attorney Brown a question about one of your elder care matters, just send a short email (a few sentences only please) to: questions@ElderCareMatters. com.  

And remember to bookmark ElderCareMatters.com and check back often to see if your question is our Featured Elder Care Question of the Day.

Question of the Day on ElderCareMatters.com: "In Louisiana, is a parent forced to give his entire estate to his children?"

Answer:  Forced heirship applies when a child is under the age of twenty four, or if a child is permanently disabled (either mentally or physically).  A parent is only required to give part of his estate to a forced heir – -one fourth of the estate to one forced heir and one-half if two or more forced heirs.

To locate competent elder care professionals who are located near You and can help you with this type of elder care matter, go to: www.ElderCareMatters.com - A FREE online source to find elder care experts plus information & answers about a wide range of elder care matters.

John E. Settle, Jr., Esq.
John E. Settle, Jr., Attorney at Law 
Bossier City, Louisiana  71111
318-742-5513
Member of the ElderCare Matters Alliance, Louisiana chapter

This Week's Featured Elder Care Expert on ElderCareMatters.com is John E. Settle, Jr., Attorney at Law, member of the Louisiana chapter of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance

John E. Settle, Jr., Attorney at Law

John E. Settle, Jr., Esq.
1915 Citizens Bank Drive    
Bossier City, LA 71111
Telephone: 318-742-5513
e-mail:   
Send E-Mail
website:
http://www.SettleLawFirm.com

This week's Featured Elder Care Expert is John E. Settle, Jr., Attorney at Law, Member of the Louisiana chapter of the national ElderCare Matters Alliance (a network of 1,450+ elder care experts) and Founder of the Law Office of John E. Settle, Jr., a law firm in Bossier City, Louisiana, a firm that specializes in Elder Law, Estate Planning, Elder Abuse Litigation and closely related practice areas. 

Every day this week (M-F), Mr. Settle will answer one of your questions about his areas of expertise (Elder Law, Estate Planning, Elder Abuse, Probate, etc), and this selected question along with Mr. Settle 's answer will be posted on the Featured Elder Care Question of the Day section of ElderCareMatters.com.

So if you would like to ask Mr. Settle a question about one of your elder care matters, just send a short email (a few sentences only please) to: questions@ElderCareMatters. com.  And remember to bookmark ElderCareMatters.com and check back often to see if your question is our Featured Elder Care Question of the Day.

Question of the Day on ElderCareMatters.com: "I am eighty years old and in excellent health. I have family and friends who can act as executors of my Will and Living Trust. I also have a power of attorney and a Health Care directive However, I don't feel that they would have the expertise to administer my estate (modest though it is). Do I need an Elder Care Lawyer or an Estate Planning Lawyer to help my executors in the case of a serious illness or my demise? What is the cheapest way to get the service that I need?"

Answer:  It is a great idea to have a relationship with an elder law attorney so that your family and friends know who to turn to if something were to happen.  The attorney can help them with decisions if you have a serious illness or require extended care.  The attorney can also help them through the estate administration process after you pass away.  Creating a relationship with a good elder law attorney does not have to be expensive.  Many attorneys either charge a fixed fee for their help or charge hourly only for the work they do for you.  When you meet with an attorney, he or she can talk about how they charge and help work with you to make sure that you are comfortable with how things would be handled.

To locate competent elder care professionals who are located near You and can help you with this type of elder care matter, go to: www.ElderCareMatters.com - A FREE online source to find elder care experts plus information & answers about a wide range of elder care matters.

Angela N. Manz, Attorney at Law
The Law Firm of Angela N. Manz
Virginia Beach, VA  23452
757-271-6275
Member of the ElderCare Matters Alliance, Virginia chapter