Medicaid, dying with dignity, respite care, Alzheimer’s disease, long term care insurance, Indiana Partnership, annuities, transfer penalties, look back periods, rising health care costs, Medicare, home health care, life estates, power of attorney, living will, appointment of health care representative, advance health care directive, guardianship, stroke, resource assessment, spousal share – Are your eyes glazed over yet?

Modern health care has expanded our late life choices. We can choose how and whether to treat ailments affecting older people in ways that our ancestors could not have imagined. Sometimes, those choices impose strain on families struggling to understand their options. HAWKINS LAW PC helps clients sort out the alternatives.

Rising health care costs have pushed many Americans into poverty. Emerging concerns among Hawkins clients about health care issues have inspired the firm to increase its practice concentration on elder law and Medicaid planning for the elderly. Increasingly, modestly affluent individuals and couples seek guidance about costly long term healthcare. Senior citizens and their families find great comfort in the Hawkins elder law practice.