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05/17/2026

Stop.👏 Using. 👏AI.👏 Especially lawyers and wannabe lawyers 🤬

05/14/2026

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04/25/2026

THIS one hit home. I recognize this client and see them every day in my practice. I share clients with allied professionals, care managers, financial planners, medical professionals and I know we all commonly share this experience. A great read, with h/t to Cary Zimmerman Cucinelli good catch! The Center at Belvedere JABA in Central Virginia
https://ageagainstmachine.substack.com/p/the-abandoned-client?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e223_tv2_tp1_a1demonvbe7b3f&fbclid=IwY2xjawRZwu5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBDcXhNZGhwZzJkUVNkd3REc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHonTEQ1Wy46e-BVYyMDC5jAxurGHYtOORzVBHuzs1BMGZgTR-Xo61MFbyFlU_aem_veUc8LMWd4ea0SQvc76e3g

Why I took on a struggling senior with MCI

04/03/2026

Mark your calendar now! Special program at The Center at Belvedere April 21 10 a.m. free and open to the public! Click the linked event details below for more information JABA in Central Virginia Jeanita Richardson JABA in Central Virginia Elder Care Pros Cville Seniors Home Instead Gelbman Law PLLC Alzheimer's Association

April 21, 2026 Having The Conversation: Getting Your Affairs in Order Navigating financial, legal, practical and healthcare issues that arise as advancing age is on the horizon for many of us and can be a challenge

03/07/2026

This is an interesting, new resources from Medicare that I only just heard about for the first time. If any of you have any experience with it, I'd love to hear about it (good, bad or otherwise?). Elder Care Pros JABA Caregivers Group The Center at Belvedere Alzheimer's Association JABA Charlottesville

The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model is a voluntary, nationwide model testing the impact of providing comprehensive services and supports for people with dementia and their caregivers.

02/23/2026

Year after year the shameful neglect our legislative and executive branches of Virginia's government ignore the pain and indignity our most vulnerable population suffers daily. Your mom. Your dad. Grandma. Grandpa. Real, endless suffering because for-profit nursing care makes *huge* profits on the back of their suffering. Katrina Callsen Creigh Deeds Amy J Laufer ...how many more sessions will be wasted. How many lives will it cost?

Virginians hoping to see a staffing standard imposed on nursing homes are disappointed after a bill that aimed to put such a requirement in place no longer includes an enactment of an actual standard.

02/15/2026

02/15/2026

Call. Your Virginia delegates and senator. Tell the to vote NO! on HB 929. Here's why (HB 929 makes this sort of fraud easier)

"Why would I sell them the house for nothing?"

02/12/2026

It's been a minute but happy to report that Team Gelbman Law is all in one place at same time again. If you've been trying to get in touch with me or one of my staff, please know that we have literally been snowed under and have been dealing with scheduling delays due to the holidays, vacation and snow-meggdon. I have FINALLY cleared enough snow-crete from our parking lot so we can safely get in and out.

It's been... challenging but we are up to the challenger and spring is on the horizon!

01/31/2026

Part II: how to fix nursing homes WHAT YOU CAN DO
Do it now! Full article at the link ...

Will this take 30 minutes of your time? Yes. But it’s 30 minutes that could help your neighbors, and your family in the future. And it gets to the real issue – that we don’t have laws to hold these bad facilities to account. We need them, and we need them now.

https://frithlawfirm.com/nursing-home-negligence/how-to-change-a-broken-long-term-care-system-through-political-action/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPq171jbGNrA-rXqmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHli084xKtX5kIWoagkFK9S2LIkk2s-n2USDuY3CnI_ch0SXW48NXo0-zwhgP_aem_SddbIMZTV02WbynMfJ4I4w

If Virginians agree that their loved ones deserve to receive the care they have been promised in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and we all know from collective experience that in many many facilities that is not happening, what can we do about it? Let’s start by considering what hap...