Elder Law and Special Needs Law News Roundup – 6-10-2022

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June is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, PTSD Awareness Month and National Pride Month. June 15th is Elder Abuse Awareness Day. June 15th is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.

General News Sources:

Caregiving News:

• Young caregivers ‘exist in the shadows,’ offer crucial help
• Caregiving for a person with dementia
• What New Family Caregivers Really Need to Know
• Caregiving for a Parent: More Partnership Than Role Reversal
• I’m a Mom with ALS: How to Talk to Kids About Growing Up With a Chronically Ill Parent
• Medical Moment: A new web-based app for caregivers
• Parents of children with severe disabilities press Legislature for change in caregiving system

Consumer Protection, Scams, Abuse:

• More ‘Dirty Dozen’: Tax refund theft and fake charity appeals
• IRS warns of impostors in ‘Dirty Dozen’
• The FBI Warns of Scammers Soliciting Donations Related to the Crisis in Ukraine
• FILE A COMPLAINT: Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3
• GAO: Congress Should Consider Enhancing Protections around Scores Used to Rank Consumers
• Georgia AG Hires Fulton County Prosecutor to Lead New Statewide Gang Unit
• Senior Abuse Financial Tracking and Accounting Tool
• How to protect elders from scams and financial exploitation
• Massive Breach in Popular Crypto Exchange Drains Retirement Accounts. Who’s to Blame?
• 10 Common Scams That Target Seniors and How to Avoid Them
• Interpersonal dysfunction predicts subsequent financial exploitation vulnerability in a sample of adults over 50: a prospective observational study
• Carr Warns Georgians of Text Message Scams

Health and Healthcare Related News:

• Cancer Screenings And Vision Checks Have Taken A Dive
• In nursing home patients, which intervention is most effective in decreasing falls?
• Type 2 Diabetes Speeds Aging in the Brain
• Good news, bad news on risky medication use in nursing homes
• Understanding Autoimmune Diseases
• Policy and Health (In)Equities among Native Elders
• The Making of Nurse Leaders in the Nursing Home
• Identifying Quality Indicators for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Modified Delphi Method
• General practitioner contacts, hospitalizations, and nursing home transfers in older patients up to three years after new cancer diagnosis: Results from a large data linkage cohort study
• The relationship between psychosis symptoms and pain in nursing home residents
• In New Orleans, Navigating Dementia With A Guide (Health Affairs)
• Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life (Health Affairs)
• Beyond Compliance: A More Integrated Public Health Approach To Outbreaks In Nursing Homes And Other Disasters (Health Affairs)
• NIH researchers discover new genetic eye disease
• Exploring dementia care in acute care settings: Perspectives of nurses and social workers on caring for patients with behavioral and psychological symptoms
• The impact of medication reviews by general practitioners on psychotropic drug use and behavioral and psychological symptoms in home-dwelling people with dementia: results from the multicomponent cluster randomized controlled LIVE@Home.Path trial
• Actionable Steps to Improve Nursing Home Operations and Patient Outcomes

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and VA Benefits:

• Pushback At Medicare Plan To Limit Hospital Medical Complication Reports
• Social Security and Medicare funds improved during the pandemic, but the long term remains dire
• Medicare Part B premium reduction won’t happen this year
• A health check for Social Security and Medicare
• How Does Working Longer Affect Your Social Security Benefits?
• Another record-high Social Security cost-of-living adjustment in 2023 could put more money in retirees’ wallets, impact program’s funds
• A Two-Year Reprieve For Medicare Insolvency Sounds Like Good News. But It Isn’t
• Social Security Benefits: What are the 3 types of Social Security payments?

Special Needs News:

• Adults with autism report poorer health care
• What parents of children with special needs want you to know
• How To Access Compensatory Services For Students With Disabilities
• Special kids need special dads
• Planning Alternatives for Adults with Disabilities
• Navigating summer when you have a child with special needs
• Alpharetta approves plan for special needs school

Events, Webcasts & Podcasts:

• Webinar: Promising practices for financial services professionals who work with older adults, June 9, 3pm ET
• TBA Elder law Forum, July 15, 2022
• AICPA Fireside Chat, Elder Care Fraud Trends and Cases, June 15, 2022, apm ET
• 6th Annual Medicaer Secondary Payer Conditional Payment Forum, Streaming July 11-13, 2022
• 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
• ARC National Convention, November 10-12, Denver Colorado
• CareFreeMe – Virutal Study for memory loss patients considering retiring from driving

Government Sources:

• VA: Nine new cancers added to the presumed service-connected list related to particulate matter
• VA: New Veteran’s Lief Insurance Program
• NIH: Analysis of Hospital-Level Readmission Rates and Variation in Adverse Events Among Patients With Pneumonia in the United States
• AHRQ: Checklists to reduce diagnostic error: a systematic review of the literature using a human factors framework
• OFR: Treasury Market Stress: Lessons from 1958 and Today
• ACL: Locating Lost Pensions
• SSA: A SUMMARY OF THE 2022 ANNUAL REPORTS

Retirement and Financial News:

• ‘Stretch’ IRA Rules May Be Tightened
• Recognizing ‘legacy debt’ is key to better funding of public pensions
• Older homeowners, who want to sell, have difficulties finding a new place to live
• Financial planning: How to handle your will and related investments
• Should you use a reverse mortgage to pay for long-term care?
• Grandparents Can Give More to College 529 Plans After Rule Change
• Proposed regulations: Updated actuarial tables for valuing annuities, terms of years, and remainder interests
• 5 Ways an Excess IRA Contribution Can Happen (Ed Slott)
• How the Secure Act RMD Rules and the 5-year holding period work for Inherited IRAs (Ed Slott)
• Here’s how to save $1 million for retirement on a $60,000 salary, broken down by age

Estate Planning

• Trust vs. Will: What They Share (And 6 Ways They are Different)
• How Blended Families are Changing the Estate Planning Rules
• Estate Planning: A Special Trust for a Special Need
• United States: Who Makes Decisions For You If You’re Incapacitated?
• Advance directives: A new look at future health care wishes
• You Need An Asset Protection Plan Not Just A Will
• Estate planning: What is a will and a power of attorney?

Legal News:

• Failure to respond to lawsuit costs nursing home owner $105,000
• Beware of the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax

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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