Nursing Home Residents Can Go Home for the Holidays
As the holidays approach, nursing facility residents and their family members often worry about losing their rooms, or their Medicare or...
Special Needs Trust Fairness Act Signed into Law
The Special Needs Trust Fairness Act corrects a patently false and degrading error in the law that presumed all individuals with...
What is a Service Animal?
What is a Service Animal? The Department of Justice published revised final regulations implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act...
U.S. Dementia Rates are Dropping
A large national survey recently published by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that dementia rates across the United States are...
New Federal Nursing Home Regulations Take Effect
The first phase of revised federal nursing home regulations took effect on November 28, 2016, implementing numerous changes to the...
Social Security Changes in 2017
Benefits Increase Slightly The program’s 60 million beneficiaries will get 0.3 percent more in monthly benefits next year. Retired...
2017 Spousal Impoverishment standards
MMMNA = 3022.50 CSRA = 120,900
