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Elder Law's Profile
Age:	43 years old
Sex:	Male
Location:	Dalton, Georgia
Country:	United States
Height:	6' 0"
BodyType:	Average
Zodiac:	Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 19)
Last Login:	Jun 22, 2008 (532 days back)
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About Me
Create your own visitor map! My name is David. I'm an avid reader. I enjoy the outdoors, good food (cooking as well as eating), travel, and movies. I really love watching Georgia Bulldogs football. If you want to talk about Georgia Football, I'm all ears. My favorite TV show is House. I'm a lawyer. I practice law in Dalton, Georgia. Most of my practice is devoted to helping elders find, get and pay for good long-term care. If you have an Elder Law question, send me an email. If you're just looking for general information on Elder Law topics, then here are a few links: My law firm website Medicare.gov 2008 Financial limits for Georgia Medicaid Eldercare Locator Social Security website If you're still wondering what's "Elder Law?", the National Elder Law Foundation defines Elder Law as encompassing each of the following areas: Health and Personal Care Planning, including giving advice regarding, and preparing, advance medical directives (medical powers of attorney, living wills, and health care declarations) and counseling older persons, attorneys-in-fact, and families about medical and life-sustaining choices, and related personal life choices.Pre-Mortem Legal Planning, including giving advice and preparing documents regarding wills, trusts, durable general or financial powers of attorney, real estate, gifting, and the financial and tax implications of any proposed action.Fiduciary Representation, including seeking the appointment of, giving advice to, representing, or serving as executor, personal representative, attorney-in-fact, trustee, guardian, conservator, representative payee, or other formal or informal fiduciary.Legal Capacity Counseling, including advising how capacity is determined and the level of capacity required for various legal activities, and representing those who are or may be the subject of guardianship/conservatorship proceedings or other protective arrangements.Public Benefits Advice, including planning for and assisting in obtaining Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans benefits, and food stamps.Advice on Insurance Matters, including analyzing and explaining the types of insurance available, such as health, life, long term care, home care, COBRA, medigap, long term disability, dread disease, and burial/funeral policies.Resident Rights Advocacy, including advising patients and residents of hospitals, nursing facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living facilities, adult care facilities, and those cared for in their homes of their rights and appropriate remedies in matters such as admission, transfer and discharge policies, quality of care, and related issues.Housing Counseling, including reviewing the options available and the financing of those options such as: mortgage alternatives, renovation loan programs, life care contracts, and home equity conversion.Employment and Retirement Advice, including pensions, retiree health benefits, unemployment benefits, and other benefits.Income, Estate, and Gift Tax Advice, including consequences of plans made and advice offered.Counseling about tort claims against nursing homes.Counseling with regard to age and/or disability discrimination in employment and housing.Litigation and Administrative Advocacy in connection with any of the above matters, including will contests, contested capacity issues, elder abuse (including financial or consumer fraud), fiduciary administration, public benefits, nursing home torts, and discrimination. April 16, 2008 is National Health Care Decisions Day
My Interests
Walking; reading; writing; music; shopping; watching college football Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Aging and Alzheimer's Disease, Part 1 Aging and Alzheimer's Disease, Part 2 Questions for Presidential Candidates Regarding Chronic Care The Last Lecture
I'd like to meet: Anyone who wants to talk politics, religion, Georgia Bulldawgs Football, elder law, cooking. In general, anyone who's interesting. If you can carry on an interesting conversation, then drop me a line. As far as friends go, I'll add most anyone who is interested. I'll likely start blogging on Elder Law issues soon so if you want to know what's out there, sign up. When football season starts again, we'll likely blog that too.
Music: I listen to most anything, but my favorites are Country, Bluegrass and Blues
Movies: Action; drama Lord of the Rings Anything with John Wayne in it
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Books: I read way too much at work, so if I read at home, its fluff Lookup a word or passage in the Bible Include this form on your page
Heroes: The Good Samaritan (Luke, chapter 10 verses 25-37)
My Background and Lifestyle
MaritalStatus:	Divorced
Ethnicity:	White / Caucasian
SexualOrientation:	Straight
Smoker:	No
Drinker:	Yes
Education:	Grad / professional school
Occupation:	Attorney
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My Blog
Is Grandma drugged up?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/05/28/ep.age.meds/ index.html... Posted by Elder Law on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:41:00 PST
Right-to-lifer testifies against mandatory arbitraiton in nursing home cases
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/06/8689_a_ righttolifer.html... Posted by Elder Law on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:43:00 PST
As parents live longer, family fortune fights escalate
http://www.libn.com/article.htm?articleID=42481 Posted by Elder Law on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:39:00 PST
Congresswoman Sanchez Introduces Bill to limit NH arbitration
http://www.lindasanchez.house.gov/news.cfm/article/430 Posted by Elder Law on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:12:00 PST
Harmful care rampant in nursing homes, official says
http://www.mcknights.com/Harmful-care-rampant-in-nursing-hom es-official-says/PrintArticle/110191/... Posted by Elder Law on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:56:00 PST
Randy Pauschs "Last Lecture"
On September 20, 2007, Randy Pausch gave his "Last Lecture." While teaching at Carnegie Mellon University, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September, 2006. Over Six Million people... Posted by Elder Law on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:23:00 PST
National Center on Elder Abuse
Believe it or not, elder abuse is a growing problem. The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), directed by the U.S. Administration on Aging, is committed to helping national, state, and local partner... Posted by Elder Law on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:05:00 PST
JOKE - Medicare Coverage in a Nutshell
The following was published in "The Shouter" (March 2008), page 8: The phone rings and the lady of the house answers "Hellow" "Mrs. Sanders, please" "Speaking" "Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at t... Posted by Elder Law on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:45:00 PST
Senate Bill Would Bar Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements
http://www.nsclc.org/areas/long-term-care/senate-bill-would- bar-pre-dispute-arbitration-agreements... Posted by Elder Law on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:59:00 PST
Tennessee Nursing Home Liability Bill
Nursing Home Liability -- Efforts to cap damages in tort liability actions against nursing homes were put off on April 8, 2008, when sponsors agreed to have their bill (HB4053/SB4075) go to a joint st... Posted by Elder Law on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:15:00 PST
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