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Legal and Financial Planning for LGBT Elders
Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation may be particularly harmful to elderly gay and lesbian people and to older same-sex couples. In this program we will become familiar with legal and financial issues affecting seniors and identify some ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) elders can protect their interests. Specific topics include surrogate health care decision making and guardianship, Medicaid’s long term nursing home care benefit and spousal impoverishment protections, Social Security spousal benefits, wills, inheritance, and estate administration. With Maryland set to vote on same-sex marriage in November, this program also present the case for marriage equality from the perspective of elderly gay and lesbian people and older same-sex couples
Presented by Henry Nash