The list below includes a variety of Web-based resources on elder law and related topics such as estate planning, disability law, and health care. If you know of a link that you would like to see added to this page, please email the site editor at towanda@mn.rr.com

Useful Documents

• Basic Estate Planning Concepts (July 15, 2004 rev.)-www2.mnbar.org/sections/elder-law/basic-estate-planning.pdf

Organizations

• American Bar Association, Commission on Law and Aging, www.abanet.org/aging/
• Elder Law Section, Minnesota State Bar Association, http://www2.mnbar.org/sections/elder-law/index.htm
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, www.naela.org
• National Elder Law Network–Elder Law Bibliographies, www.neln.org/bibs/bibindex.html
• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, www.actec.org
  • ACTEC Commentaries on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct,
    www.actecfoundation.org/pdfdocs/COMMENTA1.PDF
• Minnesota Senior Federation, http://front.mnseniors.org/regions.html
• Minnesota Health Care Choices 2005 On-line, http://www.mnseniors.org/HCCMain.cfm

Government Agencies

Federal

• Social Security Administration, www.ssa.gov
  • SSA Forms, http://www.ssa.gov/online/
  • SSA Program Operations Manual (POMS), http://policy.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/aboutpoms
• OASDI Trustees’ Report-2005, http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR05/
• Department of Health and Human Services, www.hhs.gov
  • HHS-Aging Issues, http://www.hhs.gov/aging/index.shtml
• HHS-Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, www.cms.gov
  • CMS Manuals On-line, http://www.cms.hhs.gov/manuals/
  • CMS State Medicaid Manual,
    http://www.cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pub45/pub_45.asp
  • CMS Medicare Modernization Act of 2003-Implementation Info
    http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mmu/default.asp
• HHS-Administration on Aging, www.aoa.gov
  • AoA Resource Room-Professionals, http://www.aoa.gov/prof/prof.asp
  • AoA Resource Room-Elders and Families, http://www.aoa.gov/eldfam/eldfam.asp
• Internal Revenue Service, www.irs.gov
  • IRS Forms, http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.htm

State

• The Department of Human Services has updated its Health Care Programs Manual, which includes eligibility criteria for Minnesota health care and medical assistance programs and other important information. The new manual is available at http://hcopub.dhs.state.mn.us/hcpmstd/
• State of Minnesota-official website
• Minnesota Department of Human Services,
• DHS-Aging Issues,
• DHS-Health Care Issues,
• DHS-Disability Issues,
• DHS Manuals On-line,
• DHS Combined Manual On-Line,
• Minnesota Legislature,
• Legislative Reference Library (state documents),
• Minnesota Board on Aging,

Statutes and Regulations

Federal

• United States Code-searchable, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/
  • Compilation of the Social Security Laws
    www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/comp-ssa.htm
  • Internal Revenue Code
    http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title26/title26.html
• Code of Federal Regulations-searchable, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

General Legal Information and Indexes

• Elder Law.Com–Robert Fleming, http://www.elder-law.com/index.htm
• Elder Law Newsletter (published weekly), http://www.elder-law.com/archives.html
• Elder Law Answers, elderlawanswers.com/default.asp
• Senior Law.Com, seniorlaw.com/attorney.htm
• TN-Elder Law.Com–Tim Takacs (not just Tennessee), www.tn-elderlaw.com/
• Elder Law Fax, www.tn-elderlaw.com/elderfax.html

Miscellaneous

• Elderweb On-line, http://www.elderweb.com/
• Senior Net, http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php

- Last Updated 3/30/04 -