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General News Sources and Top News:

Caregiving News:

• How Caregiving for Parents Reduces Women’s Employment (book chapter)
• Assessment of Care Provided by Family Caregivers for Post Stroke Patient at Home
• Family Caregiving Challenges Often Don’t End Once Caregiving Ends
• How to choose a home care agency
• Challenging a Medicare hospital discharge

Consumer Protection, Scams, Abuse:

• Scammers Are Impersonating Family Members to Get Your Money
• ‘Demeaning and inhuman’: Widow sues Wisconsin veterans home in dehydration death
• Bogus “Spoofed” Phone Calls from Scammers Posing as Law Enforcement Officials

Health and Healthcare Related News:

• Scholarly Articles, Week of August 19, 2022
• When Removing a Big Kidney Stone, Get the Little Ones, Too
• How the Inflation Reduction Act aims to lower drug costs
• Nursing home staffing is worse in disadvantaged communities
• Study finds US nursing homes underreport pressure ulcers in federal data | Study linked here
• Researchers explore the “dark side” of Alzheimer’s Disease revealing new biomarkers
• When Her Smartwatch Indicated She Might Be in AFib, She Thought It Was a Mistake
• The Amazing Brain: Capturing Neurons in Action
• Everyday Activities That Can Cut Your Odds for Dementia
• What’s the Best TV Viewing Distance?
• FDA’s new category of hearing aids advances hearing health care
• Ultrasound imaging gets small and wearable

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and VA Benefits:

• Medicare Recipients Could Find Drug Cost Relief in Health Bill
• Big Changes Coming to Medicare Part D Plans
• With inflation still running hot, Social Security recipients could see USD 1,900 boost next year
• CMS National Coverage Analysis: Seat Elevation Systems as an Accessory to Power Wheelchairs (Group 3)
• Recent CMS Webinars on Understanding Medicare and Medicaid
• Is Social Security Taxable?
• Kemp dedicates $1 billion to DHS
• New life for Medicaid expansion in Georgia
• New case: White v. Kijakazi (9th Cir. 9/8/2022) (SSI case remanded to SS ALJ where there was evidenceof widely discrepant job- number estimates in the national economy)
• Social Security Expands Compassionate Allowances List To Speed Up Disability Application Process
• CMA Alert | August 18, 2022

Special Needs News:

• New Case: Roll v. Howard, 2022 Kan. LEXIS 96 (Kan. 8/12/2022, Appeal No. 121447) (Appeal alleging ADA violation deemed moot where special needs individual involuntarily discharged from mental health hospital, filed suit to remain and prior to appeal being heard was readmitted to hospital due to declining condition)
• Administration for Community Living and Federal Partners Announce Two New Resources to Expand Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
• New case: T.S. v. Heart of CarDon, LLC (7th Cir. 8/5/2022) (Autistic child had an interest under section 1557 of the ACA to challenge insurance carrier’s non-coverage for autism).
• Congress Punts On Aid For Struggling Disability Services System

Events, Webcasts & Podcasts:

• Webinar: Working Together to Empower Community Inclusion with Health/Housing/Independent-Living Partnerships, 8/22/2022, 2pm
• Rocky Mountain Regional Elder Law Retreat, August 25-27, 2022
• NELF 2022 Forum, September 9-10 in Kansas City, MO
• 53rd Annual Estate Planning Institute, PLI, September 12, 2022
• Webinar on Building Partnerships to Scale Effective Dementia Care Supports, 9/12/22, at 1pm
• Best Practices in Trust Account Management, Tenn. Comm. on CLE, September 14, 2022, 9am to Noon CDT
• Life Care Planning for the Elderly Client: Fundamentals and Practice, September 21, 2022
• Annual Mid-Atlantic ADA Conference, October 11-13, 2022
• 24th Annual Conference on Special Needs Planning and Special Needs Trusts, October 12-14, 2022
• Elder Abuse Conference (Oregon AG), October 20-21, 2021
• National Conference on Guardianship, Dallas, TX, October 22-25, 2022
• The 2022 Virtual Tax & Estate Planning Forum, October 24-29, 2022
• ARC National Convention, November 10-12, Denver Colorado
• CareFreeMe – Virutal Study for memory loss patients considering retiring from driving

Government Sources:

• CLA: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research
• GAO: Military Health Care: Improved Procedures and Monitoring Needed to Ensure Provider Qualifications and Competence
• CMS: Skilled Nursing Facility Billing Reference — Revised
• CMS: HIPAA Administrative Simplification Compliance Review Process Infographic | Overview
• CMS: Updates in Coverage to Care
• AHRQ: Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
• IRS: Plug-in Electric Drive Vehicle Credit at a Glance | Press Release
• Census: New Reports: 2020 Census Evaluations and Experiments (EAE)
• HHS: Statements by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure on President Biden Signing Inflation Reduction Act into Law

Retirement and Financial News:

• How to Steer Your Retirement Portfolio Through the Storm
• How doctors view retirement
• Life Insurance at Policy Maturity
• IRAs vs. 401(k)s: Exceptions to 10% Penalty for Withdrawals Under Age 59½ Differ
• ‘I Can’t Retire – I Need Health Insurance’
• U.S. National Debt by Year | U.S. Debt Clock
• 3 tips for paying down your credit card balances as interest rates jump, according to a debt counselor
• America’s $7 Trillion Retirement Crisis Is Only Getting Worse
• Grandparents: Now is the Time to Contribute to Your Grandkid’s 529 Plans

Estate Planning

• Pot Trusts: Why They’re the Fairest (Trust Structure) of Them All
• Create a Special Needs Plan That Goes the Distance
• Estate Planning Strategies for Business Owners Planning an Exit
• Text: Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act
• Checks Deposited on Date of Death Deemed Incomplete Gifts (discussing tax court ruling in Estate of DeMuth v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2022-72 (July 12, 2022))

Legal News:

• The 10 Most Common Employer Questions After the CDC Loosens its COVID-19 Guidance
• A practical guide to partnership division planning
• It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach
• Should you sign a nursing home admission agreement?
• Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series
• New case: Cannon v. Watermark Retirement Communities (D.C. Cir. 8/5/2022) (nursing homes attempted to use PREP Act as shield from negligence claim; district court denied motion; appeals dismissed)

Updated Pages:

• How to Communicate with Courts, Parties in Litigation and Others
• Medicaid Renewals Post-COVID-19 Expected To Be Difficult

Interesting, But Not Elder Law:

• What’s New in Windows 11’s 22H2 Update: Top 10 New Features
• The ‘illusion of knowledge’ that makes people overconfident
• US retail sales were flat in July as inflation takes a toll
• Which Jesus Do You Want? – A Word Study

Not New, But Worth Remembering:

• State Bar of Georgia: Find a Lawyer Directory
• EzElderLaw Financial Toolbox
• 2022 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards
• Blogs and websites we follow

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