Can you answer your clients' questions about asset protection planning within the context of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? Order today to get the legislative and procedural details you'll need to help clients plan sensibly for the future.

1. Legislative Update and Basic Definitions
2. Medicaid Eligibility - Generally
3. Medicaid Eligibility for Long-Term Care
4. Ethics
5. Interplay of Medicare, Medicaid and LTC Insurance in Paying for Long-Term Care
6. Adult Protection

1. LEGISLATIVE UPDATE AND BASIC DEFINITIONS
   8:30 - 9:30, Raymon B. Harvey
1. Medicare
2. Medicaid
3. Federal Health Care Reform
4. Federal SSI and SSDI and State Supplement Financial Assistance
5. Medigap
2. MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY - GENERALLY
   9:30 - 10:30, Raymon B. Harvey
1. Categorical Eligibility
2. Income and Resources
3. Medically Needy Eligibility
4. Appeals
3. MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY FOR LONG-TERM CARE
   10:45 - 11:45, Raymon B. Harvey
1. Income and Resources
2. Spousal Obligation
3. Spend Down
4. Continuing Care Retirement Communities
5. Home and Community Based Care Waivers
6. Estate Recovery
4. ETHICS
   12:45 - 1:45, Justin S. Elrod
1. Representing a Mentally Incapable Client
2. Confidentiality
3. Withdrawing Representation from Difficult Clients
4. Durable Powers of Attorneys and Guardianships
5. INTERPLAY OF MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND LTC INSURANCE IN PAYING FOR LONG-TERM CARE
   1:45 - 3:15, Justin S. Elrod
1. Where Medicare Stops and Medicaid Begins
2. Long-Term Care Insurance
3. Home- and Community-Based Care
4. Grievances, Coverage and Appeals
6. ADULT PROTECTION
   3:30 - 4:40, Robert Depper
1. In the Home Setting
2. Institutional Setting
3. Financial Exploitation
4. Recourse for Abused, Exploited or Neglected Elders

ROBERT DEPPER is the sole member and manager of Depper Legal Services, PLC, offering legal advice and support to individuals, corporations and other attorneys. In addition, he also serves as chief counsel for the Arkansas Department of Human Services, where he provides in-house legal advice regarding dependency-neglect, and adult protective and administrative law. Mr. Depper engages in circuit court and administrative trial preparation and representation, preparing initial petitions and pre-trial motions. He also manages a caseload of more than 100 cases and drafts legislation. He has experience testifying before the legislature in support of client legislation. Mr. Depper received his B.A. degree from the University of Arkansas and his J.D. degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law.

JUSTIN S. ELROD is the managing attorney for The Elder Law Practice of Whatley & Elrod, PLLC, in their Bryant office. Mr. Elrod graduated, with high honors, from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. His practice focuses on the legal needs of elderly clients, with an emphasis in the areas of estate planning, long-term care planning and probate. Before attending law school, Mr. Elrod graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, with a degree in Business Administration.

RAYMON B. HARVEY is an attorney in Little Rock, where he practices in the areas of elder law and special needs trusts. He is a frequent lecturer and has been a presenter at the Arkansas Federal Tax Institute, the Mid-South Conference on Estate Planning, the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform in Washington, D.C., the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, the Arkansas Bar Association and various local events. Mr. Harvey was a participant in the "Legal Issues of Older Adults" teleconference by the Arkansas Geriatric Education Center. He was a featured guest on Successful Aging with Dr. David series on AETN. Mr. Harvey is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Arkansas Bar Association, and the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association; a board member and fellow of the Arkansas Gerontological Society; and a charter member of the Special Needs Alliance.

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