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You, as a competent adult, have the right to make your own health care decisions. But how can you make your own decisions if you become incapacitated? This is where legal documents, including living wills, Health Care Surrogate Designations, Health Care Power of Attorneys, and Health Care Advance Directives, come in. These documents should put […]

When meeting an Elder Law Lawyer for the first time it is hard to know what you need to know. We assembled the most important questions here.   1. Can my loved one sign legal documents even with dementia? Can my loved one sign legal documents even with dementia?  It depends. (How’s that for a […]

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities can be very expensive but there are ways to make your long-term care dollars stretch. There are three primary methods of paying for nursing homes or assisted living facilities: Private-paying with ones own dollars; Using insurance that covers some or all of the cost of long-term care and Need-Based […]

First, welcome to our website, and to our blog! For those of you not familiar with our practice here at Solkoff Legal, we practice, and indeed have a long history of practice, in the field of Elder Law. For many years, we confined our writing to publishing various articles, many of which are available on […]

1. On a scale of 1-10, how would you describe your end-of-life wishes? 2. Have you done a Living Will setting forth your wishes in detail? 3. If you cannot communicate health care decisions yourself, whom would you want to speak for you? 4. Have you appointed a health care agent pursuant to state law? […]

From a report released today from The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families along with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the Sarasota Herald Tribune: • More than 80 percent of the pediatricians surveyed experienced cases in which insurance plan limits, or requirements for authorizations for needed treatments, such as prescription drugs, had […]

Scott Solkoff addressing the Academy for Continuing Education (ACE) at the Mandel Jewish Community Center of the Greater Palm Beaches. Solkoff Legal, P.A. is the founding sponsor, having made an eighteen year commitment. After his children attended the pre-school, Scott served for eight years on the Board and served as Vice-President of the JCC. For […]

Home health aides provide caregiving services to help keep people in their own homes or to provide attendant care services in a facility. Home health aides and certified nursing assistants are often the front line in long-term care and yet home health aides are paid relatively little money for doing highly personal, tough work. People […]

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Dr. Robert Sarhan watched in a court as his mother, Yvonne, pleaded a decade ago with a Miami-Dade probate judge to name him as her guardian. After all, he was a doctor with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and a beloved son. Who better to take care of his mother? But citing discord between Sarhan […]