Welcome to ‘At the conference Table’ with me, Greg McIntyre and Hayden Soloway. This is akin to the Elder Law Report, we’re going to come at you live, every Friday at noon. So pull up a chair, we’re going to talk about up-coming events, and current topics related to elder law and we may have some guests come along now and then.
We usually do Hayden’s Corner on the elder law report. What would you talk about today on Hayden’s Happy Place?
Hayden: Well, I gave a seminar by myself yesterday.
Greg: And talked to a group in Lincoln county, and handed out copies of our book as a thank you for coming to the seminar. Tell me about the groups you went to this week. You went to Journey, you went to Axis, what’s Journey and Axis?
Hayden: Journey is a partnership for end of life issues. They concentrate on helping people make the end of life decisions, and getting people to sit down and really think through how they want things to be. At times it’s difficult to approach a person faced with these issues, and they try to make things easier.
Greg: They create a book ($20), I call it a ‘Get it together workbook,’ because it’s helps to get everything together in one place. How you want things handled as you age if something should happen. A financial planner, or caregiver, anyone who came into your house, such as a nurse, who would know exactly how you want your pillow fluffed, and how many creams and sugars you want in your coffee. Even down to that level of detail.
Hayden: Your plumber, handyman, to keep your relevant documents handy.
Greg: Your ‘Durable’ and ‘General POA’s’, and other legal documents in there as well. The ‘get it together’ workbook can be purchased at Hospice and I think the senior center may have some, or you can get one through our office.
We did a presentation at the country club, called, ‘So’s Your Mother’ presentation, which is on mcelderlaw.com, and went out on our e-newsletter. If you haven’t already signed up for our newsletter, you should. We blast out entire hour long seminars with question and answers, articles on elder law and other senior issues, and things that you don’t know. Know what you don’t know. You get the newsletter right in your email. Just go to mcelderlaw.com and sign up with your name and email, and you’ll start receiving those, and become part of our e-newsletter family. I put a lot of work into those newsletters, so it’s worth signing up.
Hayden: You can also see the articles on the lawyergreg facebook page.
Greg: Yes, but there is a lot more content and value in the newsletter. At the start of that video of the presentation at the country club, you gave a talk about what ‘So’s Your Mother,’ means. Share that with us, what’s ‘So’s Your Mother?’ Cause it sounds a little bit disrespectful.
Hayden: It does. Years ago, we did a lot of boating down on Lake Norman, and David, my husband, said there was a pizza restaurant. And they had all types of pizzas. It’s a hangout. There was one that had everything on it, pickles, onions, all types of meats, everything you can imagine, and they would say, ‘the onions are on it, the peppers are on it, and so’s your mother. It was just like a catch phrase, everything is on the pizza.
Greg: So why call the presentation ‘So’s Your Mother?’
Hayden: Because you take all the factors of elder law and put them all together and make a big picture.
Greg: A little bit of everything right? And we had financial guru Ed Hardy, who talked about long term care insurance and things like that, and Jamie Richards.
You know a hot topic right now are Ladybird Deeds. It’s such a great tool, an immediate protection, no matter your circumstances. Right now, people are taking advantage of that. If you are thinking that nursing home, assisted living care is on the horizon for somebody in your family, a Ladybird Deed on a family residence or primary property, can save that property from Medicare under the current policy. Which is very nice.
Hayden: And it can be done immediately, no look back period.
Greg: That’s right. We also handed out the ‘Saving the Farm’ book at a couple of seminars this week, and this book is now available on itunes and audible.com which is Amazon itunes basically. ‘Saving the Farm,’ is a reference book that reads like a novel.
Hayden: I think the name of it should have been, ‘Anyone 50 years or older should have this book, and anyone with parents 50 years or older should have this book,’ because it really is full of things, and people in their 50’s need to plan ahead. That’s how you can be the most effective and do it much cheaper than when there’s a crisis.
Greg: And the reason we say it’s like a reference book is because of the table of contents. You can see that any chapter can really drill down into subject matter. If you want to know about Ladybird Deeds and Life Estate deeds, they’re in there. There is an entire chapter on Medicaid Crisis Planning. Veteran’s Planning, and that’ll show you how patriotic I am about veteran’s affairs.
We were talking today about working the audio book into some of our seminars.
What do we have coming up?
At Elizabeth Baptist Church on October 5th at 5:30 pm, we have a Dementia Information Group, headed up by Bob Mori. He’s thinking of expanding that group to other churches. On this particular seminar they have opened it up to the general public. We will send that out on our e-newsletter as well. At that event, I will be playing the chapter from the audio book on Dementia and Alzheimer’s based around an interview I did with Teepa Snow, a world renowned expert in Alzheimer’s and Dementia. And we’re going to talk about some planning and things you need to have in place legally, to help a dementia or Alzheimer’s patient.
Hayden: She talks about dementia also. I have been listening to it since I’ve been dealing with that with my parents. She made me feel like, as least what I was dealing with, it might be unique but I wasn’t alone.
Greg: So, what she talks about is dementia being the umbrella, and beneath the umbrella is Alzheimer’s, but there’s frontal lobe dementia, there’s different types of sub-categories of dementia. Now I’m not an expert on dementia but I’m pretty good at the planning.
Hayden: I’ll say this again and again but Greg is a user friendly attorney, 6am to 9pm, 7 days a week, and I have seen that to be true.
Greg: Number 1, you care about your clients. Number 2, you go to where your clients are. I’m just going to keep it real. It blows my mind, in any profession, in businesses now, how business is just supposed to walk through the door. How clients just walk in the door and they’re supposed to be thankful that I hang a shingle, or that I practice medicine or law or that I serve hamburgers, or ice cream or whatever.
No, cater to your customers, cater to your clients, treat clients right, go above and beyond. It’s just common sense. I’ll see clients 6am to 9pm. It works around your schedule.
Hayden: And in additional to the Elizabeth Baptist Church, we are going to be at the Senior Center Health Fair which is on October 7th, 8am to 11am and that’s open to anyone. We will be at the ‘Journey’ writing your final chapter events. Keith Larson is their headline speaker and he really is a great speaker. The flyer says, ‘come hear a real life story about a families journey, and hear more about available community resources.’ They will also have really good food. We will have a display there, so come up and say hello to us. We have East Lincoln Community Center Health Fair and one in Lincoln County Senior Center. There is a free Medicare seminar, so anybody who has Medicare and is facing some difficult decisions, this is on October 20th at 10am at the Senior Center. And Hospice is having a Rib dinner fundraiser on October 21st from 3-7. There is a whole list of places you can get your tickets. Hospice, or call our office to find out. Also the Neale Senior Center is having their Auto Bazaar and Flea market, where they have old and classic cars.
If you have a specific topic you would like us to address, please shoot me a message. We will have a list of topics that we’ll address by next Friday. If you have facebook live, you can put your comments in. What I should have by next week is facebook up on my laptop and I’m take your questions live in question and answer time, all starting next Friday at noon.
Have a great week.
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Make it a great day,
Greg McIntyre
Elder Law Attorney
McIntyre Elder Law
“We help seniors maintain their lifestyle and preserve their legacies.”
www.mcelderlaw.com
Phone: 704–259–7040
Fax: 866–908–1278
PO Box 165
Shelby, NC 28151–0165
