Hegland and Fleming's A Short and Happy Guide to Elder Law (Short and Happy Series)

Working with seniors -- A legal checkup -- What folks are going through -- Confronting the elephant -- Confronting the angst -- Making things safer -- Grandchildren -- Divorce and remarriage -- Sex and driving -- Scams and identity theft -- Discrimination in housing and employment -- Dealing with doctors -- Abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation -- Caring for others -- Deciding for others -- Disability : signs and causes -- Dementia -- Nursing homes and geriatric care managers -- Guardianships -- Social Security, pensions, and IRAs -- Reverse mortgages and safety nets : SSDI, SSI, Medicaid -- Medicare -- Estate planning : an overview -- Wills -- Avoiding probate, gifts, life insurance, joint ownership, IRAs -- Trusts : legal shmoos -- Living trusts -- Health care documents -- Death in the family -- Probate and disgruntled heirs -- Ending life : pulling plugs, euthanasia, and suicide -- Hospice -- Being there and mourning. Students taking elder law, working in elder clinics, or simply dealing with aging relatives, should be assigned this book. Quick and easy it offers a legal checkup and describes how it is to grow older. It covers the legal issues, but also the critical not-on-the-syllabus issues: talking to one’s family, recognizing elder abuse, dealing with disability and death. Kenney Hegland is known for clear writing and questionable jokes; Robert Fleming, in the trenches for 35 years, is known, along with Professor Rebecca Morgan, as the “rock star” of NAELA (National Association of Elder Law Attorneys).

Learn more about this series at ShortandHappyGuides.com. If you're getting older (or hope to), this quick and easy guide will alert you and your family to problems that lurk and how you can use the law and practical advice to avoid them. Topics include: estate planning, healthcare powers, Medicare, reverse mortgages, grandparent rights, divorce, remarriage, disabilities, homes safety, driving, caring for others, dealing with doctors, hospice, death in the family, and, on a more hopeful note, sex. Skim this book; your family will thank you.Learn more about this series at ShortandHappyGuides.com. If you're getting older (or hope to), this quick and easy guide will alert you and your family to problems that lurk and how you can use the law and practical advice to avoid them. Topics include: estate planning, healthcare powers, Medicare, reverse mortgages, grandparent rights, divorce, remarriage, disabilities, homes safety, driving, caring for others, dealing with doctors, hospice, death in the family, and, on a more hopeful note, sex. Skim this book; your family will thank you. Learn more about this series at ShortandHappyGuides.com A quick and easy guide to problems of aging and how the law and practical advice can make things better.