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Caught in the Budget Battle
How the 'Fiscal Showdown' Impacts Gay and Transgender Americans MORE >
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Social Security Benefits and DOMA: Can I do Anything Now to Preserve My Rights?
This document summarizes how to preserve seniors' rights to Social Security benefits until the day the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is gone.
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Legal Plans (Alzheimer's)
Legal Plans' is a brochure with recommendations for assisting the caregiver and the person with dementia in making legal arrangements. MORE >
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One-Sheet: Social Security Benefits and DOMA
This document summarizes how to preserve seniors' rights to Social Security benefits until the day the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is gone.
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Q&A with Britta Larson on Homesharing
The Center on Halsted is the first Homesharing program in the nation that supports LGBT older adults. Homesharing allows LGBT older adults to keep their homes through the supplemental income they receive through renters. Britta Larson, the director of the program, sits down to talk about the project. MORE >
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Long-Term Care Resources for Older Adults
Finding housing, especially housing that involves levels of assistance, can be challenging. The terminology alone can be confusing and disorienting. This document has resources from Medicare.gov, Family Caregiver Alliance and National Resource Center to aid in learning more about long term care. MORE >
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LGBT Adults and Housing
Though LGBT-specific housing exist for older adults, there are not nearly enough for all the seniors who need them. This article discusses these needs and the housing that is currently available. MORE >
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A timetable round up of recent LGBT research
A recap of the latest LGBT research in the U.S. over the past 2 years. MORE >
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NYS Marriage Equality: Focus on Estate Planning
Trusts and Estates attorney, Tom Sciacca, Esq., details the importance of estate planning in relation to New York State's passage of marriage equality. MORE >
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Tom Sciacca, Esq. Explains the Importance of Marriage Equality in NYS
Tom Sciacca, Trusts and Estates attorney, discusses the importance of marriage equality in New York State pertaining to end-of-life decisions and estate planning. MORE >
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Creating an Estate Plan: A Legal Perspective
Proper planning will ensure that your property is distributed upon your death as you wish. It makes dealing with the issue of your death easier for your partner and your family. Furthermore, proper planning can save on taxes, allowing more property to be passed to your loved ones. MORE >
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Medicaid and the LGBT Community
The eligibility rules for Medicaid are complicated, and can contain traps for the unwary. This article provides an overview of the rules that apply to those in the LGBT community who might need Medicaid, particularly those who might need long-term care in a nursing home. MORE >
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The Importance of Wills
A will is an essential part of any estate plan, but this is especially true for LGBT people. An estimated two-thirds of all people die without a will (i.e., “intestate”), but dying intestate can have devastating consequences for LGBT people because, in the majority of instances, the law does not recognize our chosen families – our partners, friends, and caregivers. MORE >
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Lo Que Todas las Personas LGBT de Más Edad Deben Saber Sobre los Testamentos
Aunque el testamento es parte esencial de cualquier planificación del patrimonio, es especialmente importante para las personas LGBT. En un testamento, tú designas quién recibirá tus bienes al tú morir. También nombras a una persona para que tome decisiones importantes acerca de tu patrimonio, la cual es denominada tu "representante personal" o "albacea". MORE >
Nancy J. Knauer
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El Medicaid y la Comunidad LGBT
Las reglas de elegibilidad para el Medicaid son complicadas y pueden resultar problemáticas para quienes no están bien informados. Este artículo ofrece un panorama general sobre las reglas que aplican a las personas LGBT que podrían necesitar Medicaid, particularmente aquéllas que podrían necesitar cuidado a largo plazo en un hogar de envejecientes. Las reglas de Medicaid son bastante distintas para personas individuales y para las parejas del mismo sexo que para las parejas heterosexuales casadas. MORE >
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Creación y Protección de Derechos Legales Personales y Financieros
La planificación del patrimonio correcta te ayudará a garantizar que la persona de tu elección pueda cumplir tus deseos en caso de tú quedar discapacitado. Sin la planificación debida, podría designarse a alguien para que tome decisiones médicas y financieras en tu nombre que no cumpla con tus deseos.
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Planificación del Patrimonio
La planificación del patrimonio correcta te ayudará a garantizar que tu propiedad se distribuya tal como quieres después de tu muerte. Le facilita a tu pareja y a tu familia lidiar con tu muerte. Aún más, la planificación adecuada puede significar pagar menos en impuestos, lo cual permite que una cantidad mayor de bienes vayan a tus seres queridos. MORE >
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Planning for Incapacity
Proper planning can ensure that your wishes are carried out by the person of your choice in the event of your incapacity. Without proper planning, someone may be appointed to make medical and financial decisions for you, which may not be in accord with your wishes. MORE >
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SAGE Production's short video on LGBT Older Adults & Social Security
A primer on Social Security disparities between LGBT adults and their heterosexual counterparts. MORE >
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Tom Sciacca, Esq. on Wills
Tom Sciacca, Trusts and Estates attorney, discusses the importance of Wills to the LGBT community. MORE >
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Tom Sciacca, Esq. on Advance Directives
Tom Sciacca, Trusts and Estates attorney, discusses the importance of Advance Directives to the LGBT community. MORE >
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Lifelines: Documents to Protect Your Family
This publication contains information about essential documents that will help you protect yourself and your loved ones in the event of illness, disability, or death. MORE >
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National LGBT Aging Roundtable
A fact sheet published by the National LGBT Aging Roundtable discussing why the LGBT population should care about Social Security. MORE >
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Legal Documents
What you need to put in writing to protect your financial, health care and end-of-life decisions. MORE >
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Four Conversations Caregivers Need to Have. Now.
Do you know your loved one’s health care and financial wishes? Talk about it now, so you can protect those decisions. MORE >
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LOS DOCUMENTOS LEGALES QUE TODAS LAS PERSONAS LGBT DE MÁS EDAD NECESITAN
Lo que necesitas poner por escrito para proteger tus decisiones financieras, de cuidado de la salud y de fin de la vida.
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El Seguro Social y Su Importancia Para la Comunidad LGBT Envejeciente
Publicación de la Mesa Redonda Nacional del Consejo LGBT de Personas de Edad Avanzada acerca del Seguro Social y la comunidad LGBT. MORE >
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Injustice at Every Turn
Study released by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) about the level of discrimination against the transgender population. MORE >
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Housing Related Needs of LGBT Seniors
During the past two years a group of concerned San Diego LGBT community members began meeting regularly at San Diego’s LGBT Community Center (The Center). These individuals shared a common concern regarding the lack of LGBT-affirmative senior housing in San Diego County, particularly affordable housing. This publication describes their process. MORE >
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Find the Dollars You Deserve
This guide compiles a list of potential grant opportunities for organizations working with LGBT older adults. MORE >
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Take the Power: Tools for Life and Financial Planning
Lambda Legal has prepared this toolkit, with information on creating wills, protecting your medical and end-of-life decisions, and more, so that you can take the power and create a more secure future for yourself and your family. MORE >
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Toma el control: Herramientas de planificación legal y financiera
Lambda Legal ha preparado esta guía para ayudarte a tomar el control, de manera que puedas crear un futuro más seguro para ti y tu familia. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults: Rethinking Aging Laws for Today's Older Adults
This brief describes how current federal and state laws are based around the assumption of marriage and thus exclude same-sex couples, widowed men and women—LGBT and heterosexual alike—and those who never married. This brief offers concrete policy recommendations that would increase the breadth of older adults protected under aging policies. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Estate Tax and Inheritance
This issue brief details how current estate and inheritance laws fail to recognize LGBT people's relationships, contributing to LGBT older adult's financial insecurity. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults: Facts at a Glance
This fact sheet details the discrimination LGBT older adults face in accessing benefits, Social Security, health care, public and private housing, as well as in certain legal situations. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults: Falling Through the Safety Net
This brief documents the unequal treatment LGBT older adults face under three key aspects to successful aging: financial security, good health and health care, and community engagement. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Long-Term Care Under Medicaid
This brief focuses on Medicaid—the largest payer of long-term care in the US—and how spousal impoverishment protections and spend-down exemptions exclude LGBT couples or families of choice, often leaving the partner of the Medicaid recipient financially bereft. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Pensions
This brief describes how retirement pensions are routinely denied to same-sex partners, and how this lack of pension protection can devastate an LGBT partner. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Social Security
This brief details how LGBT adults' ineligibility for Social Security spousal benefits, survivor benefits, and death benefits significantly reduces retirement income, up to 32 percent less than their heterosexual counterparts. MORE >
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LGBT Older Adults and Tax-Qualified Retirement Plans
This brief details the unequal treatment and additional tax penalties LGBT older adults face when inheriting or when they are designated as the beneficiary for a tax-qualified retirement plan. MORE >
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Report on Baby Boomers and Older Adults
This report highlights a study done on Baby Boomers and older adults to identify the type of aging-related information they are most interested in receiving, their concerns about aging, their interest in using long-term services and supports, and their preferred ways of getting information about aging topics. MORE >
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A Guide to Changing California & Federal Identity Documents to Match Your Gender Identity
This guide provides details on how people can petition to change their name and gender in California on various state and Federal documents, including information regarding the Social Security Administration, U.S. Passport Agency, Department of Motor Vehicles, and birth certificates. MORE >
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Gay and Lesbian Elders: Estate Planning and End-of-Life Decision Making
This one-click download through SSRN will take you to a law review article discussing estate planning for gay and lesbian elders. MORE >
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Planning Tips for LGBT Individuals and Couples
Offers guidance and advice to LGBT Boomers in the areas of legacy planning,employee benefits, health care, financial and retirement planning. MORE >
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Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults: Snapshot Report
This is a summary of the report Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults, which examines the unique challenges LGBT older adults face as they age. MORE >
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Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults: Large Print Version
This report examines the unique challenges LGBT older adults face as they age and how these challenges make it harder for LGBT elders to achieve three key elements of successful aging: financial security, good health and health care, and social support and community engagement. Note: This is the large-print version of the report. MORE >
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Outing Age 2010: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Elders
An update to the groundbreaking Outing Age report issued in 2000, Outing Age 2010 presents an in-depth look at public policy issues and the challenges facing the millions of LGBT older adults in the country. MORE >
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Snapshot Report: Advancing Transgender Equality
In this publication, the Movement Advancement Project discusses the barriers to equality and challenges the transgender population faces. The four major categories covered are: physical and mental health, safety and physical security, legal documentation and relationships, and employment and self-sufficiency. MORE >
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Planning with Purpose: Legal Basics for LGBT Elders
Provides basic information about select areas of the law that are important to LGBT elders, especially individuals and couples who are age 55 and over. MORE >
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Medicaid and HIV/AIDS
A 2-page fact sheet describing Medicaid eligibility and HIV/AIDS. MORE >
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Medicare and HIV/AIDS
A 2-page fact sheet describing Medicare eligibility and HIV/AIDS. MORE >
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Out and Aging: The MetLife Study of Lesbian & Gay Baby Boomers
This study on LGBT Baby Boomers was conducted by MetLife Mature Market Institute in conjunction with the Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues Network (LAIN) of the American Society on Aging and Zogby International. MORE >
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Senior Citizens’ Law Office: Pride in Aging Project
The Project provides legal representation, advocacy, and outreach to older LGBT individuals in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance and Valencia counties. Staff help with advance directives, financial powers of attorney, estate planning, Medicare and Medicaid, long term care options, and housing issues. MORE >
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505-265-2300
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SAGE: Public Benefits Counseling
Public Benefits Counseling offers assistance in counseling around obtaining and maximizing Public Benefits to SAGE clients and members in NYC. MORE >
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212-741-2247
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Pro Seniors
Pro Seniors is a non-profit organization that provides free legal and long-term care help to older adults. Pro Seniors offers Ohio residents age 60 and older the advice and information they need to solve their legal and nursing home, adult care facility, and home health care problems. MORE >
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(800) 488-6070
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Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability
The Tennessee's Commision on Aging and Disability provides a list of resources for seniors. MORE >
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1-866-836-6678
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Boulder County Aging Services Division
Boulder County Aging Services Division (BCASD) promotes the health and well-being of older adults by building on individual, family, and community strengths MORE >
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303-441-3570
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