Senior Living

A New Jersey appeals court blocks a son who is the guardian of his mother from selling his mother's house and transferring a portion of the proceeds to hasten her eligibility for Medicaid coverage of her nursing home care. The...

A recent Pennsylvania court decision shows why early long-term care insurance policies had a bad reputation and why it's important to check your policy's terms, particularly if the policy was issued more than a decade ago. More . . .

Geriatric care managers support and guide older adults and their family members as they plan and arrange care. They are helpful when family members live too far away to help their loved ones directly.

U.S. Department of Labor's Disability.gov site is a one-stop source of government information relevant to people with disabilities. ...

The nursing home ombudsman program is generally failing to do its job of protecting residents from abuse and neglect, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, part of the paper's weeklong investigative series on preventable deaths in nursing...

Medicare officials have issued guidelines allowing homebound beneficiaries to leave their homes for special occasions--such as family reunions, graduations or funerals--without losing their home health care benefits. More . . .

Around the country, a handful of new approaches are being tried to do away with the hospital model for nursing homes and replace it with care that gives meaning to residents' lives, according to an article in the Washington Post.

In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision allowing states to use what is known as the "income-first" rule. Because of this decision, depending on the state, a community spouse of a Medicaid recipient could quickly be thrown into poverty...

Medicaid 101

A California court says that a nursing home was largely responsible for the injuries of a resident who accidentally set himself on fire while smoking. Lawson v. Skyline Healthcare Center (Cal. Ct. App., 2 App. Dist., B142164, Oct. 3, 2001).