Helpful Links

Finding a Certified Elder Law Attorney

• National Elder Law Foundation (NELF)

Finding a Special Needs Disability Attorney

• Special
  Needs Alliance

Pennsylvania Pooled Trusts

• Achieva The Family Trust
• Secured Futures
• The Center

Public Benefits

• Medicare
• Social
  Security
• PACE
  or PACENET – PA prescription drug programs
• National
  Council on Aging – Benefits Checkup

Nursing Home Locators and Survey Results

• PA Department of Aging Nursing Care Facility Locator
• Centers
  for Medicare and Medicaid
• PA Department of Health’s Nursing Home Care Page

Complaints Regarding Nursing Home Care

1-800-254-5164

Pennsylvania Elder Abuse Hotline

(800) 490-8505

End of Life Planning

• Physicians’ Orders for Life
  Sustaining Treatment
• Five Wishes
• Out of Hospital DNRs
• Hospice article from The New
  Yorker

Living Trusts

• The Truth about Probate and Living
  Trusts in PA

Financial Tools

• Annuity
  Truth
• Savings Bonds Calculator
• Saving
  for College

Pennsylvania Property Tax and Rent Rebate Information & Application for Seniors

• PA Department of Revenue Property Tax/Rent Rebate Page

Obtaining a Birth or Death Certificate

• PA Department of Health Records Page