Immigration in Later Life
What immigration law does differently when the person concerned is old, has been here a long time, or is being brought over by an adult child.
Subjects
Ten desks. Each one is a working reference written to be understood on a first read.
Social Security & Retirement Income
How retirement, spousal and survivor benefits are calculated and decided, and what happens when somebody disagrees with the determination.
Medicare & Coverage Decisions
Enrollment, the parts and what each covers, and the routes available when a service is refused or an existing one is stopped.
Long-Term Care & Paying For It
The rights that attach to living in a facility, and the rules that decide when public funding starts paying for care.
Capacity & Advance Planning
The documents that let somebody act for another, what capacity is measured against, and what happens when nothing was signed in time.
Undue Influence & Financial Abuse
Pressure applied by somebody trusted, how courts recognize it, and the duties owed by institutions that see the transactions.
Housing in Later Life
The contracts and protections that govern where somebody lives as needs change, and borrowing against a home in retirement.
Working Past Retirement Age
Employment law as it applies to older workers: discrimination, restructuring, benefits that change with continued work, and exits offered late in a career.
Driving & Independence
License renewal and medical review as conditions attach with age, who may report a driver, and what follows a decision to stop.
Passing Things On
The mechanisms that move property at death without a court, and the ones that quietly override an existing will.