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11/01/2022

11/01/2022

Nursing homes provide essential care for many. There are many fine nursing facilities, but there are also many substandard facilities where abuse, mistreatment and failure to provide your loved ones with appropriate care is an everyday experience. These substandard facilities can only be forced to change by passing and enforcing new laws protecting the residents, and by holding the facility accountable where they have neglected your loved ones. Support nursing home reform legislation, and if a loved one has been neglected, call (847)253-7500 to get a consultation on what you can do to prevent it happening again.

For far too long, nursing home residents have been victims of an industry with little accountability to keep American seniors safe and protected. COVID-19 has laid bare the challenges in America’s nursing homes, with over 200,000 residents and staff dying from COVID-19. That’s why in his State o...

10/22/2022

07/23/2022

Congratulations State Representative Natalie Manley on receiving the Legislator of the Year Award from ILNAELA for your outstanding support for seniors and individuals with disabilities.

05/30/2022

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys

Access to outstanding elder law education is just one reason to belong to NAELA. Not a member? Download this complimentary article today to see a sample of the types of resources our members enjoy every day. http://ow.ly/mQNx50J7YPY

04/07/2022

Everyone deserves an opportunity

No matter where you live, no one deserves to be discriminated against in the workplace. In this The Mighty post from Daniel Clackett offers an incredible understanding of what workplace discrimination looks like and what to do about it: https://hubs.la/Q017jc6N0.

02/08/2022

The Elder Law & Estate Planning Attorneys of Illinois, LLC is proud to announce that Attorney James C. Siebert was named a 2022 Illinois Super Lawyer and that Attorney Paige N. Fox was named a 2022 Illinois Super Lawyer Rising Star.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The Super Lawyers designation, conferred upon the most respected legal practitioners in the state, is based upon peer recognition and professional achievement. No more than 5% percent of the lawyers in each state are selected by the research team to receive this honor. Rising Stars are those up-and-coming attorneys who are 40 years of age or younger and have practiced law for 10 years or less. No more than 2.5% of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team to receive this honor.

12/30/2021

Elder Law & Estate Planning Attorneys of Illinois Attorney James C. Siebert has again been named a Leading Lawyers in Elder Law for 2022. Leading Lawyers, an organization that’s a division of Law Bulletin Media, sets themselves apart from other similar award organizations because of how the list of winners is formed. Leading Lawyers surveys Illinois lawyers and asks, “If a family member or friend needed legal help and you couldn’t take the case, to whom would you refer them?” To maintain the quality and credibility of the survey, lawyers may not nominate themselves or anyone at their law firm. The group limits the total number of Leading Lawyers in a given state to less than five percent of all lawyers licensed to practice law in that state.

10/20/2021

Memory Screening is available through Alzheimer's Foundation, it is free, virtual and confidential. A memory screen is a good way to check on possible issues with your memory, assure yourself that you that any memory issues you are concerned about are normal or to establish a baseline for future testing.

Virtual Memory Screenings AFA offers free virtual memory screenings which allow individuals to receive one-on-one, confidential memory screenings from a qualified professional using their computer, smart phone or tablet. This service, which is part of AFA’s National Memory Screening Program, began...

10/15/2021

Medicare's Open Enrollment Period is here!

Medicare’s open enrollment period is Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 — and it’s an important deadline for beneficiaries to remember.

Open enrollment is the time in which current Medicare beneficiaries can make any changes to their coverage, such as adding or dropping a plan. It’s a time when people can also switch to Medicare Advantage, which is Medicare-approved health insurance provided by a private company, or choose between Medicare Advantage and a supplement plan. When beneficiaries make no changes, their current elections continue into the following year. .

Medicare.gov released a guide, called “Medicare & You,” to help Americans sift through coverage options and available plans across the country in 2022.https://www.medicare.gov/Pubs/pdf/10050-Medicare-and-You.pdf

Think about what benefits matter to you and find a Medicare plan that fits your needs. Visit https://www.medicare.gov/ through December 7 to compare plans and make any changes. If you decide to change plans, your new coverage will start January 1.

10/14/2021

Social Security benefits to increase in 2022

Social Security payments are set to rise 5.9% in 2022 for 68 million retirees, disabled people and others. That's the most since 1982.