Ohio NAELA News
Welcome to the news blog of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Ohio Chapter. Here we share news related to Elder Law, Estate Planning, Probate and Special Needs Planning, Veterans Benefits and more — for the benefit of our Chapter members, and the general public seeking more information about Elder Law.
Most assisted living communities wait for COVID results
McKnight's Senior Living — Eighty-seven percent of assisted living communities and nursing homes participating in a new survey said it is taking two or more days for them to obtain the results of COVID-19 tests of staff members. The results of the American...
VA staff helping shape COVID-19 treatment guidelines
The VAntage Point blog/US Dept. of Veterans Affairs — VA health care staff are helping shape COVID-19 treatment guidelines. Both public and private medical teams across the country and around the world are benefitting from the guidelines. The National...
Pandemic Upends Lives Of People With Disabilities — And Their Caregivers
Kaiser Health News — When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stacy Ellingen, 34, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lost two of the three caregivers she depends on to dress, shower, eat and use the bathroom. The caregivers — both University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh students — returned to...
Officials Consider Two-Day COVID Pass for Nursing Home Visits
SkilledNursingNews.com — As families across the country wait for guidance on how they can safely visit their loved ones living in skilled nursing facilities, one governor has proposed a novel idea: a two-day pass for nursing home visitation. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis...
‘Talk to Your Governor’ Not Enough to Get Universal Testing in Nursing Homes
SkilledNursingNews.com — Senior housing and care leaders again called on the federal government to aggressively bankroll COVID-19 universal testing in the nation’s nursing homes, arguing that the burden will be ongoing — especially since an already expensive one-time...
Poll: Americans take dim view of raiding Social Security to cover pandemic
CNBC.com — Americans could use a financial boost. How to get that money into people’s hands has been a hot topic of debate. Democrats have proposed expanding unemployment insurance and giving Americans as much as $2,000 per month to get back on their feet. Meanwhile,...
As $4.9 billion goes to nursing homes, assisted living groups ‘disappointed’
McKnight's Senior Living — Nobody in long-term care is begrudging skilled nursing facilities for the $4.9 billion that began flowing to providers on Friday to fight effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but associations are asking federal and state governments not to...
Affordable Care Act Offers Safety Net to 20M Unemployed
Forbes — More than 20 million Americans losing their jobs could become eligible for Medicaid or subsidized individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act as employers cut health benefits amid the spread of the Coronavirus strain COVID-19, a new study indicates. In...
‘My long goodbye’: Already coping with husband’s Alzheimer’s, now wife faces Coronavirus lockout
Los Angeles Times — Felice Blair knew two things for certain about the man she met that December day in Tel Aviv — he looked good in a red sweater and he was quite late. After apologizing profusely for having gotten lost, her blind date, Bernard, a friend of her...