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• Checklist - 5 Legal Documents You Need for Your Parents

  These documents will ensure that you can assist your...

• Checklist - 10 Questions to Ask Your Parent's Doctor About Alzheimer's

  If your parent has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, time is really of the essence. Here are the questions to ask your parent's medical provider.

• Article - Documents to Bring to the Oncologist's Office

  Be prepared: The ten crucial pieces of Information you need to have when you visit your parent's cancer doctor.

Questions & Answers

• Question - How do I gain access to my parent's health records without a durable power of attorney for health care?

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• Question - What authority is needed to gather a parent's documents for Medicaid?

  When you want to access your parent's health records, do you need a durable power of attorney for healthcare? Or can HIPAA prevent it even with one?

• Question - What documents, besides a will, do my aging parents need?

  Parents need an advance health care directive, a release for health care records, a durable power of attorney for finances, and maybe a living trust.

• Question - How can I get a FREE HIPAA release form for my parents to...

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• Question - What rights do I have as a healthcare agent?

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• Question - Can my parent give durable power of attorney for healthcare to one child, and durable power of attorney for finance to another?

  My brother thinks my parents should give durable power of attorney for healthcare to one sibling and durable power of attorney for finance to another.

Tips & Reflections

• Tip - Archive Legal Documents Online

  Give family members (and anyone else you designate...