New York Elder Law provides authoritative guidance on how elder law practitioners and their clients can plan around and best confront the varied issues impacting the elderly. In addition to sample wills and helpful practice-orientated checklists, this book features the latest legal developments regarding Medicare, Medi-gap Insurance, Medicaid eligibility, Medicaid home care, nursing home rights, powers of attorney, and health care decision-making.

The new release includes the following updates:

• Chapter 3, Medicaid for the Elderly, Blind, or Disabled, covers the E14 Waivers or exceptions put in place for Medicaid renewals from July 1, 2023, through May 2024.
• Chapter 4, Medicaid Home Care: A Basic Introduction, includes new discussions covering the new form DOH-5770, Practitioner Statement of Need and LDSS’s submission of a web-based form to NYIA requesting expedited assessments upon receipt of an immediate need request.
• Chapter 5, Nursing Homes, reviews visitation requirements for nursing homes, as well as residents’ rights.
• Chapter 6, New York Power of Attorney, discusses the effect of a defective notarization on a power of attorney and the requirements to make gifts under the 2009 amendments to the NY GOL.
• Chapter 7, Health Care Decision Making, provides new discussion of the Palliative Care Access Act.

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