St. James NEST Speaker Series "Aging in Place: What's Your Plan"

Estate and Long Term Care Planning

Speaker:  Kara Gansmann, Attorney at Law, Cranfill Sumner LLP

Estate planning provides peace of mind for handling your assets when you are no longer alive or capable of handling assets yourself. A comprehensive estate plan may encompass a broad range of legal strategies, including wills, trusts, and powers of attorney for finances or health. Estate plans focused on asset protection may often be geared toward planning for long-term care needs. Asset protection plans may involve deed transfers, protective trusts, or promissory notes to preserve assets. Planning for any long-term care is a gift that you and your loved ones will appreciate.

Get more information about these important topics from an experienced Elder Law attorney. This session will help you understand essential estate planning tools, asset protection and long-term care planning; Powers of Attorney and how to determine if yours is “hot” enough; Wills versus Trusts and determining which one makes the most sense for you; how estate plans from out of state impact you in North Carolina; the best steps to take now to protect your assets for long term care; and how to find and pay for quality long term care.

This program represents one event within the 2022-23 St. James NEST Speaker Series themed Aging in Place: What’s Your Plan? Nearly 90% of adults over age 50 — across all age, race, income, and health status categories—want to remain at home and “age in place.” But staying in your home is a wish, not a plan. The upcoming speaker series will address how to make that wish more likely to become reality. If you aren’t yet familiar with St. James NEST, its purpose is to provide services and support to St. James' residents to enhance their ability to make aging in place a reality. The 2022-23 Speaker Series will have programs in September, November, January, March and May. Please check the St. James Events Calendar for details on the other programs. 

Location:  St. James Community Center
Date:  Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Time: 3:00pm to 4:30pm including a question and answer session.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early such that the program can begin on time. The program is FREE to attend, but we strongly suggest you pre-register due to limited seating capacity, in order to ensure you are able to participate.

Please register by clicking on the Registration button, or via the Help Desk at (910)250-8388. Registration closes on November 13th at 5pm. 

In case you cannot attend, following each event, the materials and recording of the presentation will be posted on the 2022-2023 Speaker Series page.