The recently passed “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (TCJA) contains a major change to the Federal estate tax laws – the doubling of the individual estate gift and GST tax exemptions to approximately $11.2 million (double this for couples). This will greatly reduce the number of people who will be subject to the estate tax. So even if one is unlikely to be subject to Federal estate taxes (note: many states do not follow Federal estate law), there still are many sound nontax reasons to revisit estate planning and possibly update your prior documents.

Spring Break is coming to Florida next week, and with it a major increase of traffic on the state’s roads as millions vacation from here and many other states.

Physical therapy helps Leon Beers get out of bed in the morning and maneuver around his home using his walker. Other treatment strengthens the 73-year-old man's throat muscles so that he can swallow food more easily, says Beers' sister, Karen Morse. But in mid-January, his home health care agency told Morse it could no longer provide these services because he had used all his therapy benefits allowed under Medicare for the year.

It's inevitable. Our parents are getting older, and if you are not thinking about how to care for your elderly parents now, you will at some point (or you already have).

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, the Agency for Health Care Administration (Agency) is highlighting recent national data showing Florida nursing homes, with oversight from the Agency, are delivering higher and higher quality during the course of this decade.

TALLAHASSEE — Nursing homes will get a $130 million bump in Medicaid payments, and residents who live in the facilities will get nearly a 25 percent increase in a monthly stipend they can use for personal needs, under a state budget deal finalized Thursday.

In a recent report, Social Security's Inspector General formally accused Social Security Administration staffers of reducing the benefits of thousands of widows and widowers — to the tune of $132 million and counting.

The Silver Alert Bill would allow a missing senior citizen alert to be issued for a person who suffers from Alzheimer's or Dementia.

Crowne Health Care in Eufaula was alight with bright smiles, warm hugs and good cheer recently when members of the Southeast/Farley chapter of the Alabama Power Service Organization (APSO) delivered nearly 50 Cheeriodicals care boxes to residents of the facility.

We all know the stats: by 2035, one in three households will be headed by someone aged 65 or more years and the population aged 80 or more years will double to 24 million.