Member: National & Virginia Academies of Elder Law Attorneys
Gelbman Law PLLC is focused exclusively on Elder Law in Central Virginia, including the City of Charlottesville, the surrounding counties and Shenandoah Valley.
Member: Charlottesville Aging in Place Business Round Table
Elder law includes estate planning (Wills, Powers of Attorney, Advanced Medical Directives, etc.) as well as Long Term Care Planning (including LTC Insurance, Medicaid and Veterans Benefits), Guardianship/Conservatorship proceedings, advocacy for families or residents dealing with assisted living or nursing facilities including Care Planning, disputes with Medicare and Medicaid and much more.
Attorney Doris Gelbman believes clients need an opportunity to find out if her expertise in elder law will be helpful to them; she offers a free, 20 minute initial consultation to any potential client. A consultation may be conducted in person or over the telephone.
Many of Gelbman Law’s clients find it difficult to travel to appointments due to barriers of downtown parking, stairs, obstacles difficult for some due to frailty of age, disability or illness . Clients visiting her offices will find plenty of free, handicapped accessible parking and meeting space that is “barrier free” – an environment easily navigable for those needing, wide doorways, ramps, handrails and wheelchair or walker access.
Elderlaw Mobile – makes housecalls!
Moreover, as a courtesy, Gelbman frequently travels to her clients wherever they may be. Gelbman will meet you in your home, in a hospital, at an Assisted Living or Rehab/Nursing facility – whereever you are most comfortable. There is no extra charge for mileage, travel or home visit.
Gelbman sees her job as simplifying things for clients, not complicating them.
Call for an appointment or your free consultation today.
Planning
Many of you will be taking the holidays as an opportunity to go home to visit Mom, Dad, and perhaps Grandma and Pa as well as other older relatives. When we go, we tend to slip into old habits and … Continue reading
Do you need a Will? or a Trust? or something else altogether? I often do workshops on estate planning here in Charlottesville. Frequently, I open by asking my audience, “do you know what happens if you don’t have a Will?” … Continue reading
I’ve written a lot about the process of choosing an Assisted Living or a Nursing Facility or other alternatives. Actually what I’ve typically written about is the lack of choice we have in such matters and that most of us … Continue reading
Long Term Care
If you have had to deal with the institutional health care system: hospital, sub-acute care, rehabilitation, nursing care and the like – you know our system of delivering care is badly in need of overhaul. We can (and do) bemoan … Continue reading
Recently, a friend of mine, who works in this field, asked, “how do I advise friends and clients who are in the uncomfortable position of having to choose a new home for mom or dad?” First of all, I want … Continue reading
I’ve written a lot about the process of choosing an Assisted Living or a Nursing Facility or other alternatives. Actually what I’ve typically written about is the lack of choice we have in such matters and that most of us … Continue reading