Change brings families through our doors! Family members with elder care challenges, and those members with special needs, are experiencing some change in life and need help with the next step. This next step is individual to each client and can involve everything from estate planning to crisis planning; guardianships/conservatorships to powers of attorney. Our approach is client-centered, and involves a plan crafted by the attorney, but guided by the clients particular needs. Our role is to provide support, resources and guidance to empower families to best care for the future.

Developments in elder care, specifically long term care, assisted living, managed care, home care, insurance and financial products, as well as changes in the Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and Veterans Benefits programs have challenged seniors with decisions never faced by prior generations. Many resources are available for help --- identifying them for your family's unique situation is our job.

Life Care Planning: A Better Practice.

Across America a growing number of elder law attorneys, dissatisfied with the limitations of a traditional elder law practice, are exploring how to best address their clients' chronic care needs. Many are adding registered nurses and/or social workers to their teams to provide a practical, comprehensive approach to filling a family's needs.

McCormick & Fracassa, P.C. is one such firm. We realize that most people are caught up in today's hectic pace of living and cannot spend endless hours researching answers to the questions surrounding care for an aging loved one. Our job is to provide the answers you need, relieve those uncomfortable feelings and offer peace of mind. We establish a relationship for a lifetime and we call the process Life Care Planning.

Avoiding Traps for the Unwary

Census figures reveal that seniors are the fastest growing population group in America. Thanks to medical advances, better nutrition and improved life styles, more people are living longer.

Increasing age means increasing medical costs, care giving burdens, and contact with the red tape of public benefits programs that can force depletion of hard-earned savings accumulated over a lifetime.

Who can you turn to for help in navigating the bureaucratic maze? How can you find timely answers to the increasing number of questions involving public benefits requirements, protecting assets, making health care decisions, and avoiding probate? Such questions as: