Center for Elder Services

02/23/2024

More Elder Care Pros VAELA (Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys) cosplay 👑. h/t Lelia Palmore Winget-Hernandez

02/19/2024

Highlight of my professional year this week! Annual VAELA (Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys) UnProgram in Billysburg! Can't wait to see all my colleagues! Elder Care Pros

01/10/2024

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Philanthropy Assistant Dir. Lynn Divers

12/21/2023

Aaaaannnd that's a wrap for Gelbman Law PLLC until after Christmas/Kwanzaa. See you on the other side!

10/06/2022

This is pretty big news that might be more easily digested by lawyers, but has significant impact on Nursing Homes (heads up Elder Care Pros) and their residents, family members or other patient representatives.
"The guidance creates two new tags, F847 Enter into Binding Arbitration Agreements and F848 Select Arbitrator/Venue, Retention of Agreements. To avoid those, facility staff must explicitly inform a resident or family of their right not to sign an arbitration agreement and ensure that any agreement is explained in a “manner that he or she understands, including in a language the resident and his or her representative understands.” Facilities must also grant residents 30 days to rescind agreements."
h/t to my pal Ross Hart at https://www.facebook.com/HartHartAttorneys

The US Supreme Court this week refused to hear arguments that nursing homes should be able to require pre-dispute arbitration agreements, clearing the way for enforcement of stiff new arbitration rules to begin in earnest this fall.

03/06/2022

Excellent piece! Recommend... Elder Care Pros Ellen Bikoff note what they say about dementia and the arts.... and caregivers! Also Kirsten Miles!!

“The Notebook” helped this caregiver understand the behaviors her father was displaying. After his diagnosis with Alzheimer’s, fiction, poetry and memoirs provided support.

10/10/2021

Reader's Digest Version: DON'T sign an admissions agreement at a nursing home until you've had a lawyer look it over. There is ZERO reason why you must do it immediately. You would not close on a house with out a lawyer reviewing the documents. You are committing to payments of upwards of $7000 a MONTH. There's all kinds of crazy @ #$% in there! Just have it looked at before you sign it.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave the green light to a federal regulation that allows nursing homes to use arbitration agreements with residents,

08/14/2020

Proud sponsor of The Center at Belvedere :D Welcome to you new digs friends! Delighted to be back to presenting in person next week and excited to try out all your new technology, enjoy the delightful space and will stop by Greenberry's Coffee Co. while I'm there. So much good stuff happening !!

We are here for everyone. Anyone 50 and better can join, and lots of programs and events are free and open to people of all ages—workshops, classes, support groups, and more.

05/20/2020

Very true of nursing homes and the medical practices that serve them too. "The strange thing about private equity money in medicine is that for-profit investors have long been prevented from buying doctor’s offices. Corporate ownership goes against a doctrine set by the American Medical Association, the main trade group for doctors in the U.S., and is prohibited by law in many states, including Texas and New Jersey. For most of the past 100 years, if you wanted to make money on a medical practice, you needed to have a medical license.

Yet over the past decade, lawyers devised a structure that allows investors to buy a medical practice without technically owning it: the MSO, or management service organization."

Investors have been buying up doctor’s offices, cutting costs, and, critics say, putting pressure on physicians in ways that hurt patients. The pandemic could make things even worse.

10/14/2018

We can help! With nearly all aspects discussed in this story. Gelbman Law PLLC Elder Care Pros h/t JABA Charlottesville

Adult children aren't the only ones who can oversee your medical and financial care in older age.