Our life care planning team works to simplify the legal complications in your life and help you and your family plan ahead for your aging needs. Life Care Planning is a holistic, elder-centered approach to elder law that helps families navigate the journey through the long term care maze.

We can help address various needs beyond your legal documents:

• We manage risk and can plan for the various options as you age

• Assistance with finding, paying for, and getting good long term care as it is needed

• Facility and hospital visits and check-ins

• Driving limits and options

• Addressing caregiver burnout

• Isolation and limited contact with family members or family members that live far away

• Addressing cognitive declines

• Planning that addresses needs ranging from independent living at home, living at home with assistance, retirement community living, assisted living, to nursing home care

• Navigating public benefit options such as Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran’s compensation, Aid and Attendance, Respite Care Vouchers, and Medicaid Home and Community Based Waivers

• Updating estate planning documents to reduce the burden on agents and trustees

• Protecting vulnerable adults and minimizing exploitation risks

• Preserving real estate

• Minimizing conflict amongst heirs

Why does traditional elder law fall short?

A traditional elder law firm is limited to creating a plan for your aging needs and preparing the legal documents to get there. That set up does NOT include the consistent follow through, on-site visits and assessments, assistance with placement, health care advocacy, and more that are included in life care planning.

Our plans include a financial component that addresses how and where care will be provided at various levels of need. If you are concerned about the extraordinary cost of skilled care, a comprehensive financial plan can protect and preserve your assets while accessing benefits from in-home caregiving services to fully covered skilled care in a facility. You have lots of options if you plan ahead and less if you don’t.

Why choose LawyerLisa for your Life Care Planning Needs?

LawyerLisa has a dedicated team of lawyers, legal professionals, and Elder Care Coordinators that utilize our skills and experience to deliver timely results when our clients need us most. Our knowledgeable team navigates trusts, social security issues, Medicaid applications, Medicaid penalties, Medicaid repayment, placement options, caregiver options and payment, intent to return home, house clean outs and sales, power of attorney issues, budgeting, home safety checks, approved expenses, spend downs, paying for long term care, and so much more!

Want to see how our approach is different and customized to your exact needs?

Accreditation (Excerpt from nelf.org/page/Accreditation)

The National Elder Law Foundation complies with the following American Bar Association (ABA) standards to certify attorneys in the practice of elder law:

Accredited specialist certification

*Reprinted with permission from the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Specialization

A quick glance through the “attorneys” section of the yellow page directory of any major metropolitan area will make it clear that many lawyers specialize in one or more kinds of legal matters.

Like other professionals, many lawyers concentrate their practices to certain fields of law. In fact, most specialize to some degree by limiting the range of matters they handle.

An increasing number of lawyers are choosing to be recognized as having special knowledge and experience by becoming certified specialists in certain fields of law.

Lawyers who are certified as specialists have been recognized by independent professional certifying organizations as having an enhanced level of skill, as well as substantial involvement in established legal specialty areas. Certifying organizations require lawyers to demonstrate special training, experience and knowledge to ensure that recognition as a certified specialist is meaningful and reliable.

Specialty certification programs available to lawyers are growing both in numbers and variety. In 1993, the American Bar Association (ABA) adopted a set of voluntary national standards, along with a set of procedures to accredit specialty certification programs.

The standards were designed to establish reasonable and valid criteria to accredit programs that grant specialty certification to qualified lawyers and to provide state authorities with a basis for approving programs which seek recognition in their jurisdictions.

Choose your area of concern to learn more:

Lisa Hostetler Brown, CELA* Certified Elder Law Attorney, Certified by the National Elder Law Foundation

Lane Cook, CFP* Certified Financial Planner, conferred by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards

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