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What is Elder Law?
Elder law is a growing area of the law focused on the complex issues impacting seniors. Elder law practitioners may also help younger clients prepare for the future. An elder law attorney typically handles general estate planning matters and counsels clients about planning for decreased independence, long term care, disability and end of life issues. They prepare wills, advanced health care directives, trusts, and powers of attorney. They advise about the estate and tax consequences of making gifts and asset transfers. Elder law attorneys counsel clients with Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security issues. They can help coordinate public benefits and private resources to finance nursing home care. They might help clients in locating appropriate types of care, nursing home admissions and advocating for quality care. Elder law attorneys may also advise seniors and disabled clients of other available resources and services.
The focus of Main Line Elder Law on the estate planning and public benefits needs of individuals and families enables the firm to be particularly sensitive to the multiple stresses that these individuals and families confront on a daily bases, which are compounded by the complexities of the American legal and health care systems. Main Line Elder Law helps its clients navigate this system by providing answers where they are hard to find and identifying solutions to the clients' particular needs and goals.