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Protecting Alzheimer patients' legal, financial welfare
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | Karen Henley and her daughter, Courtney, leave the hospital after visiting husband and father Mike Henley. The Alzheimer's patient was taken there because of seizures. (May 27, 2008)
Caregiving experts often advise that after an Alzheimer's diagnosis, family members meet with an elder law attorney to begin the process of planning for down the road as the illness progresses.
"I don't think families are well-versed in this," said Barbara Vogel, program coordinator for the Neuwirth Memory Disorders Program at Hillside Geriatric Center in Glen Oaks. "I don't think they're...
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