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May is Older Americans Month and Elder Law Month; National Adolescent Health Month; It is also Mental Health Awareness Month; National Osteoporosis Month and Military Appreciation Month.
General News Sources:
- Wishes and Needs of Nursing Home Residents: A Scoping Review
- After the Pandemic Hit Nursing Homes Hard, California Lawmakers Push to Tighten Licensing Rules
- No Prison Time for Tennessee Nurse Convicted of Fatal Drug Error
- Affordable Connectivity Program Lowers Cost of Broadband Services for Eligible Households
- ‘That’s Just Part of Aging’: Long Covid Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors
- VIDEO: What do you think the future of medicine, aging, health and longevity will be – and who will have access to it?
- Generations Magzine, May-June 2022
- A Fix for the Family Glitch | Related
- MassNAELA Honors Elder Law Month by Advocating State Legislation Granting Financial Assistance for In-Home Care
- ‘Who is going to take care of you when you’re old?’ Childfree retirement planning answers the questions all of us should be asking
- All Your Questions About Physician-Assisted Suicide, Answered
Caregiving News:
- VA Newsletter, May 16, 2022 featuring caregiver resources
- How to be a better long-distance caregiver
- Delaware Becomes the 11th State to Enact Paid Family Leave
- Tips for Reducing the Stress of Caring For an Aging Parent
- Perceptions of patient aggression in psychiatric hospitals: a qualitative study using focus groups with nurses, patients, and informal caregivers
- The long-term care dilemma: Who will take care of you?
- Your Guide to Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Request for FMLA Leave Can Serve as Request for ADA Accommodation
- What caregivers need to know about health care advocacy
- How to fix a broken sleep clock: Caregivers and circadian rhythm disruption
Consumer Protection, Scams, Abuse:
- Man Accused of Killing Mother, Grandfather to Inherit Family Estate
- UCF developing a scam screener to help protect the elderly
- Caretaker kills terminally ill women, then himself
- Alcohol & Substance Abuse: The Invisible Epidemic For Seniors
- Planning ahead: learn how to prevent financial elder abuse and fraud
- Lawsuit: Nursing home conditions made woman’s rape and murder ‘inevitable’
- Judge sets trial in Peters v Peters lawsuit (improper use of power of attorney)
- Man found guilty of swindling more than $100,000 from disabled aunt
Health and Healthcare Related News:
- Sizing Up the Decisions of Older Adults
- How Does the Human Body Produce Voice and Speech?
- Serious Mental Illness in the Nursing Home Literature: A Scoping Review
- Health and social care services for people with dementia at home at the end of life: A qualitative study of bereaved informal caregivers’ experiences
- Effectiveness of the Biography and Life Storybook for Nursing Home Residents: A Quasi-Experimental Study
- Repeat hospital transfers among long stay nursing home residents: a mixed methods analysis of age, race, code status and clinical complexity
- The Avoidable Transfer Scale: A New Tool for Identifying Potentially Avoidable Hospital Transfers of Nursing Home Residents
- Person-Centered and Task-Centered Care and Mealtime Behaviors in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: Impact on Food Intake
- The Association Between Preference Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Overall Care for Nursing Home Residents
- Understanding ‘Evergreening’: Making Minor Modifications Of Existing Medications To Extend Protections (Health Affairs)
- Trajectories and determinants of emergency department use among nursing home residents: a time series analysis (2012–2019)
- Prevalence and management of dysphagia in Nursing Home Residents in Europe and Israel: the SHELTER Project
- Long-Term Care in the United States — Problems and Solutions
- Delays in Care Longer for Female Trauma Patients
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and VA Benefits:
- Social Security checks could jump 8.6%, biggest hike since 1981, expert says
- Government watchdog: 1 in 4 older Americans on Medicare harmed during hospital stays
- New Bill Loosens Social Security Earnings Restrictions
- CMS: National Coverage Determination (NCD) 210.14 Reconsideration – Screening for Lung Cancer with Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT)
- CBO: Lowering Medicare Age Would Cost $155 Billion Over Five Years
- Request Made To Review Florida Medicaid Cost-Shifting Case
- CMA Alert May 12, 2022
- 7th Circuit affirms denial of disability benefits, urges petitioner to ‘give work a shot’
- SSDI: What you need to know about spousal benefits?
- Can Medicaid recover money left to a disabled adult child?
Special Needs News:
- The Next Pandemic: Mental Illness
- State must pay $75K, create ombudsman for failure to provide child’s special needs services
- Autism Subtypes: Understanding the Spectrum
- Five ways to support parents of children with special needs
- DOJ, EEOC Launch Initiative to Combat AI Discrimination During Hiring Process
- EEOC Issues Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Americans with Disabilities Act Considerations
- Georgia Seeks Short-Term Acute Crisis Stabilization Beds For Youth With I/DD & Psychiatric Crisis
- Caring for people with special needs
Events, Webcasts & Podcasts:
- NADRC Webinar: Wisconsin’s Dementia Care Specialist Program: A Statewide Effort to Support People Living with Dementia, Their Family Caregivers, and Their Communities, Wednesday, May 25, 2022 1:00-2:00 PM ET
- 2022 Annual Meeting of the State Bar of Georgia to be held June 2-5 at the Omni Amelia Island Resort in Amelia Island, Florida
- Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 4-7, 2022
- TBA Elder law Forum, July 15, 2022
- AICPA Fireside Chat, Elder Care Fraud Trends and Cases, June 15, 2022, apm ET
- American Hospital Association Leadership Summit, July 17-19, 2022
- NELF 2022 Forum, September 9-10 in Kansas City, MO
- 53rd Annual Estate Planning Institute, PLI, September 12, 2022
- Elder Abuse Conference (Oregon AG), October 20-21, 2021
- National Conference on Guardianship, Dallas, TX, October 22-25, 2022
- CareFreeMe – Virutal Study for memory loss patients considering retiring from driving
Government Sources:
- HHS Office of Inspector General: Adverse Events in Hospitals: A Quarter of Medicare Patients Experienced Harm in October 2018
- GAO: VA Health Care Facilities: Leveraging Partnerships to Address Capital Investment Needs
- Tax Compliance: Trends of IRS Audit Rates and Results for Individual Taxpayers by Income
- NIH: Challenges and opportunities for advancing patient-centered clinical decision support: findings from a horizon scan
- AHRQ: Incorporating Infection Prevention and Control into an Emergency Preparedness Plan
- PSNet: Presenting complaint: use of language that disempowers patients
- NIH: Advancing Access to Hearing Health Care
- GAO: Tax Equity: Lack of Data Limits Ability to Analyze Effects of Tax Policies on Households by Demographic Characteristics
- GAO: Tax Compliance: IRS Audit Trends for Individual Taxpayers Vary by Income
- NIH: Reforming Nursing Home Financing, Payment, and Oversight
- FDA: Curriculum Materials for Health Care Degree Programs | Biosimilars
Retirement and Financial News:
- Bitcoin’s crashing. The Biden administration wants to keep it out of your 401(k)
- Bitcoin’s massive plunge shows why it shouldn’t be in your 401(k)
- Crypto Industry to Get Official Rules on Bitcoin Accounting
- Qualified Charitable Distributions & Spousal Beneficiaries (Ed Slott)
- The Current State of U.S. Workplace Retirement Plan Coverage
- Does inflation have you worried about retirement? Here’s what experts say to do
- Americans can expect to pay a lot more for medical care in retirement
- Saving for College: 529 Plan or Trust?
- Robo-Advisors vs Real Life Advisor – How to Choose
Estate Planning:
- Executor Allowed to Challenge to Assessments for Estate Tax
- Revocable Trusts – Separating Fact from Fiction
- IRS Looks to Limit Estate Tax Break For Large Gifts in Tweak to Anti-Clawback Regulations
- Follow these 5 steps for better business legacy planning
Legal News:
- ABA Legal Summary of 2021 Changes to Guardianship Laws
- The Probate Exception: We’re Not Just in State Court Anymore
- Supreme Court To Hear Case Regarding Section 1983 Enforcement of FNHRA Violations | 7th Circuit Decision | Supreme Court
- Illinois Court of Appeals Reinstates Legal Malpractice Claim
Not New, But Worth Remembering:
- State Bar of Georgia: Find a Lawyer Directory
- EzElderLaw Financial Toolbox
- 2022 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards
- National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center
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