July 19, 2009
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that an Alzheimer’s gene may impair middle-aged memory. According to the study, people with a variant of the APOE gene, which increases the risk of Alzheimer’s in old age, may also show memory impairment earlier than researchers once thought. Researchers followed 815 people ages 21-97 [...]
June 12, 2009
Elder law is an area of law that encompasses any legal issue facing the elderly. It is often associated with estate planning but can involve much broader social, economic and health related difficulties facing aging Americans. Some of the concerns that become more important to us as we grow older and may require more careful [...]
Christopher Sharry
Elder Law
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January 10, 2009
The process of planning your estate can be a daunting one. Often, you are asked to think about, discuss, and plan for an event that is unpleasant. For most of us, the plan we develop will not be needed for years. On top of that, you are then asked to gather numerous documents and verify details about your [...]
Christopher Sharry
Estate Planning
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November 10, 2008
Health Care Proxies and living wills in Massachusetts both address situations in which medical decisions are made on your behalf when you cannot communicate your wishes for yourself. A Health Care Proxy allows you to designate someone (called your Agent) to make decisions on your behalf should you be unable to do so whereas a [...]
November 7, 2008
I get this question quite often. Family members and friends falsely assume that estate planning is for the “rich”. They think that they are too young to need a Will or they don’t have enough money to worry about planning. I explain that sometimes the headaches associated with a lack of planning usually have nothing to do with [...]
