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Having your parents' financial information is crucial to getting timely, efficient, and affordable care. Seniors applying for certain benefits must demonstrate their financial needs and provide comprehensive documentation of their past and present finances. One example is Medicaid.

You can apply for a guardianship, or conservatorship, if your parent hasn't appointed a POA a to make medical, living arrangement and financial decisions for them, but it appears that they are no longer able to make those decisions on their own behalf.

The Elderly Legal Assistance Program in Georgia, also known as ?ELAP,? provides legal assistance in noncriminal matters such as accessing health and long term care, debt collection, housing, consumer issues, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, elder abuse, exploitation and fraud, defense of guardianship, advance ...

Elder law in Georgia often involves advance planning for illness or incapacity to minimize legal problems, preserve assets and maintain the dignity of senior citizens. Sometimes elder law involves crisis planning such as when someone is in need of immediate placement in a long-term care facility such as a nursing home.

Financial exploitation in Georgia is defined as the ?illegal or improper use of a disabled adult or elder person or that person's resources through undue influence, coercion, harassment, duress, deception, false representation, false pretense, or other similar means for another's profit or advantage.? This type of ...

The best time to hire an elder law attorney is before you need one. That way, your elder law attorney can plan for upcoming events, such as before going into assisted living or losing the ability to make financial decisions.