"Alzheimer's Disease:  Fighting For Financial Survival"

Chapter 1 
Who Can Benefit From this Book

Chapter 2 
Alzheimer's and Other Dementia: The Signs and Symptoms

Chapter 3 
A Case Study

Chapter 4 
Basic Estate Planning: Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney and Advance Directives

Chapter 5 
The Medicaid Rules
     A. The Difference Between Medicare and Medicaid
     B. Three Ways of Paying for Nursing Homes

Chapter 6 
Medicaid Planning for Those in a Nursing Home, or About to Go into a Nursing Home
     A. The Ethics of Medicaid Planning
     B. A Word of Caution
     C. Medicaid Planning with Asset Transfers
          1. Paying for Three Years and the Half-a-Loaf
          2. Annuities
          3. Life Care Contracts
          4. Raising the Community Spouse Resource Allowance

Chapter 7 
Medicaid Planning for Those Not in Crisis
     A. Outright Gifts to the Children
     B. The Medicaid Trust
     C. The Revocable Trust with Medicaid Triggers

Chapter 8 
Sheltering the House with Medicaid Planning
     A. Estate Recovery
     B. Life Estate Deeds
     C. Self-Canceling Installment Notes
     D. Special Power of Appointment Deeds

Chapter 9 
How to Locate and Choose an Elder Law Attorney