Posts Tagged ‘caregivers’
CMS Announces New Healthcare Consumer Website
submitted by Liam McMahon, Paralegal In September of this year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a new website called Care Compare (https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/). The website is intended to allow consumers, patients, and caregivers to make informed decisions about their healthcare based on cost, quality of care, volume of services, and other data. In…
Read MoreKinship Care Month – Celebrating Non-Parent Caregivers
September is Kinship Care Month. Kinship Care refers to caregiver grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, adult siblings, and even family friends. Nationally, more than 2.7 million children live with relatives, and New York State has more than 200,000 children living full time with kin. The Center for Elder Law & Justice provides free legal representation to…
Read MoreKinship Attorneys available to assist caregivers with access to special education resources
For over a decade, the Kinship Unit of the Center for Elder Law and Justice has represented non-parent caregivers of children in Erie and Niagara Counties. We represent caregivers on issues related not only to permanency, but also access to education. Schools in New York officially closed on March 16, 2020, and will be closed…
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