The wide array of legal spheres covered by "Elder Law" embraces:
 Property planning as well as the administration of property within the person's life span and planning how the property will be divided after the person's death through wills, trusts, asset transfers, tax planning, and other means.
Long-lasting care planning, as well as treatment home matters, such as quality of care, admittances contracts, deterrence of spousal insolvency, and resident's rights. Besides, it embraces life care or retirement community matters such as evaluating the projected plan.
Retirement matters as well as Social Security (retirement and disability and survivors' benefits) and other public allowances (veterans, civil service) and benefits including personal pension benefits.
Health care matters as well as Medicare insurance and enduring care insurance.
Housing matters together with home equity transfer and age prejudice.
Planning for probable inability through deciding beforehand how health care and financial choices will be made if you are incapable to do so (means embrace long-lasting powers of lawyers, health-care authorities of lawyers, living wills, and other ways of delegating the decision-making). The lawyer may also be able to advise on custody proceedings in case that elder people have not planned for inability.
Age discrimination matters.
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