Elder Law Attorneys Serving Florida's Treasure Coast

With the rising cost of health care, decline in home prices and longer life spans, financial and health care security are becoming ever greater concerns for seniors.

We help protect your health, safety, financial security and ability to continue living in your home as you wish into your senior years. We also make sure you receive all public benefits you are entitled to, so you are not forced to deplete the savings you worked so hard for throughout your life.

Do not let the term elder law mislead you — the sooner you start preparing to meet the challenges of your senior years, the easier it is to meet your objectives. With our tax and estate planning expertise we help:

• Protect retirement income
• Maximize Social Security retirement and disability benefits
• Assure you have adequate insurance coverage
• Protect life savings from the risk of extraordinarily high nursing home care costs
• Maximize Medicare and Medicaid benefits, and resolve benefit disputes

We also ensure that any necessary health care proxy, medical directive, living will or power of attorney is in place to protect both you and your family should you become incapacitated.

A team approach to elder care

We use a team — including geriatric care nurses, medical specialists, trust officers and financial planning specialist to analyze the elder care issues of our clients. This enables us to understand problems and find custom-tailored resolutions to them in a manner that no law firm that simply prepares legal forms and advice can match.

For instance, we frequently see seniors who wish to continue living in their own homes but face increasing challenges in doing so, perhaps due to one spouse becoming unable to meet the care requirements of the other, or because a widow or widower is living alone. By working with skilled geriatric care nurses we are able to learn the details of the medical situation, then together devise an optimal health care, financial, and legal solution. Our expert team often finds solutions that make home care more workable, both medically and financially, than expected.

Our team also protects your legal rights and helps guide you to the most attractive options regarding:

Protect your life savings

Long-term care in a nursing home can be highly expensive. The need for such care is unpredictable. We advise how to protect your family's wealth from the potential cost of such care while assuring you will receive all available public benefits and insurance benefits to help pay for it should you need it. The sooner you begin such planning the more effective it will be. So do not delay.

You should enjoy your golden years with peace of mind in a worry-free retirement. We can help make that happen.

Quality, integrity, and personalized legal service

For legal help regarding wills, estates, trusts, elder law or guardianship, call The Keane Law Firm, Chartered at 772-288-0000 or contact us online.