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Consumer Publications:

$12 each

If You Think You Need a Nursing Home, Preplacement Packet
Contains: A Consumer's Guide to Financial Considerations & Medi-Cal Eligibility, Facility List and select Nursing Home Fact Sheets, including Making Care Plans Work.

$10 each

A Consumer’s Guide to Financial Considerations and Medi-Cal Eligibility
Outlines requirements for Medi-Cal. Includes discussion of protection of assets, including the home, when a spouse enters a nursing home. Booklets available in English, Spanish and Chinese.
Bulk Prices Available.

$15 each

A Small Claims Guide for Nursing Home Residents
with CD

This guide is designed to assist nursing home residents to protect their rights, help them resolve violations of their rights and, if applicable, receive compensation for the nursing home’s bad conduct through small claims court.
Bulk Prices Available.

Click here to download a free version of the Small Claims Guide. Note: The Guide is a large file (PDF, 1.4 MB). Please be patient.

$2 each

Facility Lists by County
Also available free online
$5

Organizing Family Councils in Long Term Care Facilities
Includes guidelines, relevant law and sample forms.
$10

DVD: Organizing Family Councils
Instructional DVD for the establishment and functioning of family councils; includes a booklet with guidelines relevant law and sample forms. (2003)
Factsheets are available for free from our site.

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Professional Publications:

Ordering Publications
All prices listed below include shipping costs.
$75

2007 Fall Attorney Training Manual and CD:
DRA, Medi–Cal & Recovery

CD includes DRA provisions and CMS instructions to states; sample 3100 petitions and points and authorities; sample d4A trust and instructions; sample gift deed with irrevocable life estate; and relevant articles and practice tips arranged by subject area. CD has articles in PDF format.
$100

2007 Elder Law Conference Manual
Includes the most relevant and up to date pleadings, forms and articles arranged by Track and individual conference sessions, including litigation, elder fiduciary abuse, estate planning for long term care and other elder law "hot topics." Accompanying CD has forms in both MS Word and PDF formats.
$20

Best of the Net CD 1997–2008: (Updated)
Invaluable collection of the best estate planning articles from CANHR’s Legal Network News. CD has articles in PDF format.
$20

An Advocates Guide to Nursing Home Evictions CD 2007
General overview of the law regarding evictions from skilled nursing facilities and how to legally challenge them. CD has forms in both MS Word and PDF formats.
$20

Resident Rights Enforcement CD 2007
CD includes forms, procedures and samples for effective litigation on behalf of nursing home residents. CD has forms in both MS Word and PDF formats.
$75

2006 Fall Attorney Training Manual and CD:
DRA, Medi-Cal & Long Term Care

CD includes DRA provisions, sample petitions, irrevocable life estate, recovery regulations, practice tips and relevant articles on spouse to spouse transfers and other issues arranged for easy access by subject area.

$25

2006 Fall Social Worker Training Packet:
Medi-Cal: Nursing Home Care and Alternatives

Highlighting 2006 state and federal changes in Medi-Cal eligibility and recovery.

$10

ACWDL Nos 90-01 and 90-03
Draft regulations (still in effect) relating to implementation of spousal impoverishment in California.90-01 includes property regulations; 90-03 includes income regulations.
$20

Treatment of Trusts under OBRA '93 and the Revised SSI Rules, 2005 Edition
Written and compiled by Peter Stern, Esq.; includes review of the law, sample language, regulations and procedures.(Medi-Cal Eligibility Procedures Manual Letters #179 & 192 are included).

$20

2004 Estate Planning for Long Term Care: Options and Ethics Audio CD:
60 Minutes (1 MCLE credits)
Terry Magady, Esq., Peter Stern, Esq., Gregory Wilcox, Esq., Matthew O’Donnell, Esq.

$20 per CD

2004 Elder Law Conference Audio CDs:
Includes forms for MCLE and Legal Specialization Credit


  • SSI: An Overview
    75 Minutes (1.25 MCLE credits)
    Thomas Beltran, Esq., Peter Stern, Esq., Gregory Wilcox, Esq., Julia Wilson, Esq.


  • Using Trusts in Long Term Care Planning
    90 Minutes (1.5 MCLE credits)
    Peter Stern, Esq.

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