News Roundup – 4/15/2022

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April is Autism Acceptance Month and Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. It is also National Financial Capability Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Social Security Month. National Healthcare Decision Day is April 16, 2022.

General News Sources:

• Biden Administration Targets Growing Burden Of Medical Debt
• It’s Your Choice: You Can Change Your Views of Aging and Improve Your Life
• Refurbished Walkers and Wheelchairs Fill Gaps Created by Supply Chain Problems
• Understanding how the brain tracks social status and competition
• Georgia hospital in ‘immediate jeopardy’ after discharging man too early
• What to consider before you invest in long-term care insurance
• Litigation, Staff Shortages and Access to Capital Pose the Greatest Threats to Nursing Homes
• Will You Have To Support Your Aging Parents Financially One Day?
• When resolved medical bills keep popping up
• Private Equity Ownership of Nursing Homes Triggers Capitol Hill Questions — And a GAO Probe
• HHS Renews Covid Public Health Emergency For Another 3 Months
• Respite Care: Giving Family Caregivers a Break
• How Do I Protect My Generous, Impaired Grandparent?

Caregiving News:

• Resetting your approach when caring for someone with dementia
• EEOC Issues New Guidance for Employers Regarding the Treatment of Employees with Caregiver Responsibilities | EEOC
• New approach retrains brain, reducing depression, stress in dementia caregivers
• Effective Communications for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
• For unpaid family caregivers in the workforce, the burden grows
• Simple Steps to Choose the Right In-Home Caregiver
• WEBINAR: Caregiver Support (CMS Long-term Services and Supports), April 27, 2022 at 2pm ET
• Paying home caregivers will reap rewards
• Clinical studies offer opportunities for family caregivers
• Going Back to the Office Is Harder When You’re Taking Care of Mom or Dad
• 10 tips for caregivers of parents with newly diagnosed memory loss disease
• Financial tips for caregivers (Morgan Stanley)
• 10 Books on careing for elderly parents

Consumer Protection, Scams:

• Your Social Security Number: When Is It OK to Give It Out?
• Child Maltreatment, Youth Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Elder Mistreatment: A Review and Theoretical Analysis of Research on Violence Across the Life Course
• Scams and Cyber Threats (Wells Fargo)

Health and Healthcare Related News:

• NIH: Human Brain Compresses Working Memories into Low-Res ‘Summaries’
• Subsidy Cliff Looms; Fixing The Family Glitch (Health Affairs)
• New laws let visitors see loved ones in health care facilities, even in an outbreak
• Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill
• Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation statement on CMS coverage determination for Aduhelm
• A second booster helped protect older people from Omicron infection, but waned quickly, an Israeli study says
• Half of Americans Now Die With Dementia Diagnosis, Better Record-Keeping May Be Why
• NIH: Some arthritis drugs may reduce Alzheimer’s and related dementias risk in those with heart disease
• PODCAST: MRSA and Staph Prevention and Treatment
• ‘Saving our loved ones to death’: Watchdogs say nursing home lockdown left scars
• How a Cancer Diagnosis Makes Jesus’ death and resurrection mean more
• Nursing home care, funding system need overhaul, report says
• Nursing Homes Are in Crisis. We Can’t Look Away Any Longer
• Research Roundup: HPV; Covid; C. Diff; Lymphoma; Psilocybin; More
• When Is It Time for Hospice?
• Understanding “Total Pain” in the Context of Oncology Care
• Should Medication Be a ‘Last Resort’ in Treating Mental Illness?
• How to Communicate With People Suffering From Dementia

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and VA Benefits:

• Social Security Administration to Resume In-Person Services at Local Social Security Offices
• Medicare Plans To Cut Payments To Nursing Homes
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (CMS 1765-P)
• Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program; Long-Term Care Facilities to Establish Mandatory Minimum Staffing Levels
• VIDEO: Back pay for VA Disability: How far back does VA Disability Pay?
• Do You Need All 4 Parts of Medicare for TRICARE For Life?
• Social Security’s retirement age is moving to 67. Some experts say that could go even higher
• Extension of the Presumptive Period for Compensation for Gulf War Veterans
• Demonstrating Tension Between State And Federal Power In Medicaid: The Price Of Georgia’s Waiver Fight
• Families frustrated with Tennessee’s Katie Beckett program ask for accountability |Youtube video
• How does Medicare work with Social Security disability benefits?
• What Happens When COVID-19 Emergency Declarations End? Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Access
• Limited Equitable Relief for Individuals Facing Difficulties with Part A or B Enrollment and Disenrollment Requests Through Social Security Administration
• Kansas Medicaid inspector general issues report on HCBS waiver program

Special Needs News:

• Exceptional Parent Magazine, April 2022 issue
• Ask the Pediatrician: How do parents keep children with special health care needs safe during the pandemic?
• Special needs deserves to be more than an afterthought
• Special needs teacher charged for allegedly mistreating 2 students under 10
• Parenting Impossible – The Special Needs Survival Podcast
• DOJ and CVS agree to make online COVID-19 Vaccine registration accessible for disabled individuals
• NIH: Autism Spectrum Disorder
• How To Pursue an Autism Diagnosis as an Adult
• Special Needs Group®/Special Needs at Sea® (SNG) to Offer Ultra-Light Wheelchairs
• How to include those with special needs for Easter activities

Events, Webcasts & Podcasts:

• Elder Justice Decision-Making Capacity Symposium: The Role of Decision-Making Capacity in Elder Justice Cases that Reach Courts, April 19-21
• 2022 National Elder & Dependent Adult Abuse Symposium, April 27-29, 2022
• ACL Webinar Series: Engaging Community Health Workers in Evidence-Based Programs
• 2022 National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• 2022 NAELA Annual Conference, May 13-14, 2022, Scottsdale, Arizona
• 5th Annual Older Adult Mental Health Awareness Day, May 16, 2022
• TBA Elder law Forum, July 15, 2022
• American Hospital Association Leadership Summit, July 17-19, 2022
• NELF 2022 Forum, September 9-10 in Kansas City, MO
• 53rd Annual Estate Planning Institute, PLI, September 12, 2022
• Elder Abuse Conference (Oregon AG), October 20-21, 2021
• National Conference on Guardianship, Dallas, TX, October 22-25, 2022
• CareFreeMe – Virutal Study for memory loss patients considering retiring from driving

Government Sources:

• GAO: Tax Filing: 2021 Performance Underscores Need for IRS to Address Persistent Challenges
• Update to Chapter 7, “Home Health Services,” of the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual (Pub 100-02)
• Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems

Retirement and Financial News:

• Which of the 3 Financial Phases Are You In?
• Americans Don’t Want to Talk About Their Generational Wealth
• 5 Tips for Successfully Passing Down Wealth
• How to Split $250,000 in Student Loans in a Divorce
• Social Security vs. Rising Inflation
• How to Stretch Your Retirement Nest Egg as Prices Rise
• What does a focus on financial literacy mean? Here are 5 definitions from successful people
• How to make better financial choices
• Insurance Can Make or Break Your Financial Plan
• Decisions, Decisions: Many Factors Go Into Deciding When to Transfer Wealth
• [Regarding Long-term care] Retirees, This Is What It Takes to Be Your Own Insurer
• The ins and outs of an Ethereum IRA

Estate Planning:

• 10 common Form 709 mistakes
• Fourteen Symptoms of a Business Succession Plan That Will Fail
• What Betty White—And Her Character on ‘The Golden Girls’—Can Teach us About Estate Planning
• Protecting Choices With Durable Power of Attorney and Advanced Health Care Directives
• An Advance Care Plan is a gift to your family
• Passing Down Cryptocurrency Assets: Gifting And Estate Planning Considerations
• What President Biden’s Budget Proposal Means for Charitable Giving
• Advance directives can bring peace of mind
• Don’t leave your health decisions to chance
• Revocable Inheritance Trust: Inexpensive Divorce Protection
• What does becoming someone’s ‘power of attorney’ mean?
• Don’t Throw Away a $12.06M Estate Tax Exemption by Accident

Legal News:

• New Case: Coastal Bank v. Rawlins (Georgia Ct. App. 4/11/2022) (trial court affirmed where it declined to award attorney’s fees to party that made offer of settlement)
• IRS PLR Approves Adding Formula General Power of Appointment for Basis Step Up | PLR 202206008
• CMA Alert | April 7, 2022
• CMA Alert | April 14, 2022
• How to Handle a Client’s Suspected Cognitive Impairment
• Navigating Post-Leave Inquiries and Medical Examinations Under the Americans with Disabilities Act

Not New, But Worth Remembering:

• State Bar of Georgia: Find a Lawyer Directory
• World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is June 15th
• KHN Morning Briefing

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