Houston Elder Law Lawyer

Foresight and planning for a range of elder care needs without the pressure of an immediate crisis usually promotes the best results. This type of planning allows a long term care plan to be integrated with conventional estate planning instruments.

Often, however, families may not have the luxury of long-range planning alternatives. An elderly parent may have suffered a recent stroke, broken hip, or heart attack and is suddenly dependent on others. You must be able to access the right resources on affordable terms as quickly as possible.

Providing Knowledgeable Advice for Elder Care

At Weiner & McCulloch, PLLC, in Houston, Texas, our attorneys advise seniors and their adult children about effective strategies for identifying quality long term care, accessing the necessary services, and persevering wealth. We serve our clients by providing effective estate planning, informed advocacy regarding long term care systems, and knowledgeable tax planning services.

If your family needs immediate advice following the health crisis of an elderly relative, contact an elder law attorney at Weiner & McCulloch, PLLC today. We provide knowledgeable advice and effective strategies to meet long term care needs.

Elder Care May Incorporate A Variety of Strategies

In the immediate aftermath of a parent's serious illness or accident, families too often depend on the advice of a single professional with vested interests in a particular approach to your situation.

• A nursing home administrator is likely to advise admission into a nursing home.
• A physician might well indicate the need for extended hospitalization, surgery or medication, or intensive convalescent care.
• A tax accountant might advise an intricate irrevocable trust arrangement designed to minimize taxes, but which fails to address the practical considerations of your parent's care needs or ignores the pitfalls of inappropriate Medicaid planning.

While any of these approaches might be adequate for certain aspects of your parent's circumstances, none of them alone is likely to address all of the needs and considerations inherent in appropriate long term care planning and advocacy for a senior.

Any single approach might be too expensive, provide for an insufficient degree of independence, understate the intensity of care that is needed for the weeks or months following serious illness or injury, or simply fail to properly address tax planning, Medicaid planning, asset protection or other legal strategies.

Offering Objective Advice About Long Term Care

At Weiner & McCulloch, PLLC, our lawyers, who work with staff elder care coordinators, have experience working with the entire range of options, and no incentives to favor one strategy over another.

We offer informed advice and advocacy regarding everything from tax, Medicaid and financial protection strategies to practical strategies for personal care needs to adaptive home technologies, home nursing, therapeutic services, or hospice care.

Few people consider nursing homes as anything other than a last resort for long term care. The attorneys and staff at Weiner & McCulloch, PLLC can help you find and advocate for the services that are right for your family's needs and the resources necessary to pay or qualify for them. Contact an elder law attorney at our Houston office for help.

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