ADVISING ELDERLY CLIENTS gives you fact-packed, up-to-date guidance in the fastest-growing area of client need for the 21st century. This handbook covers the law, the resources, and the practical tips to plan for your older clients’ needs and advocate their interests. It gives you thorough, practical guidance on methods of dealing with incapacity; rights of residents of nursing homes, skilled nursing care facilities, and assisted living facilities; Medicare and Medicaid; Social Security and railroad retirement benefits; tax planning; pensions and employee benefits; discrimination in housing; consumer fraud and the elderly; and grandparents’ rights.

Chapter 1 — Planning for Social Security or Railroad Retirement Benefits
Hon. Michael R. Robinson, Illinois Human Rights Commission, Springfield, and Robert M. Perbohner, U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Chicago

Chapter 2 — Medicare and Long-Term Care Insurance
Amy DeLaney, DeLaney Law Offices, Ltd., Orland Park
2012 Supplement by Amy DeLaney and Heather Voorn, DeLaney Law Offices, Ltd., Orland Park

Chapter 3 — Illinois Medical Assistance for Long-Term Care: Nursing Homes, Supportive Living Facilities, and Community Care Program Services
Janna S. Dutton, Dutton & Casey, P.C., Chicago

Chapter 4 — Planning for Incapacity: Powers of Attorney, Living Trusts, and Forms of Ownership
William L. Broom III, Barrett, Twomey, Broom, Hughes & Hoke, LLP, Carbondale
2012 Supplement by William L. Broom III and Carey C. Gill, Barrett, Twomey, Broom, Hughes & Hoke, LLP, Carbondale

Chapter 5 — Guardianship for Disabled Adults
Sharon R. Rudy, Sharon R. Rudy, P.C., Rockford

Chapter 6 — Planning for Disability: The Powers of Attorney for Health Care Law, the Illinois Living Will Act, the Health Care Surrogate Act, and the Agency-Court Relationship Statute
Pauline G. Dembicki, Evanston

Chapter 7 — Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Actions Under the Nursing Home Care Act
Steven M. Levin and Michael F. Bonamarte IV, Levin & Perconti, Chicago

Chapter 8 — Nursing Homes and Life Care Communities
Constance Burnett Renzi, Mickey, Wilson, Weiler, Renzi & Andersson, P.C./Elder Law Center P.C., Aurora

Chapter 9 — Understanding a Long-Term Care Resident Contract
Wendy L. Rubas, Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, and Monica A. Wallace, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Chicago

Chapter 10 — Pensions and Other Employee Benefits
Lee T. Polk, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago

Chapter 11 — Consumer Fraud and Older Illinoisans
Deborah Hagan and Rebecca L. Pruitt, Consumer Protection Division, Office of the Attorney General, Springfield

Chapter 12 — Grandparents’ Rights
Andrea K. Muchin, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, Chicago
2012 Supplement by Andrea K. Muchin and Brittany Heitz, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP, Chicago

Chapter 13 — Elder Abuse and Neglect
N. Lee Beneze, Legal Services Developer, Illinois Department on Aging, Springfield, and Robyn O’Neill, Regional Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Evanston
2012 Supplement by N. Lee Beneze, Legal Services Developer, Illinois Department on Aging, Springfield

Chapter 14 — Protecting Seniors from Discrimination in Housing
F. Willis Caruso and Michael P. Seng, The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Clinic, Chicago

Chapter 15 — Tax Planning for the Elderly
Ben A. Neiburger, Generation Law, Ltd., Elmhurst

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