What Retiring Academics Need to Know About Health Care: Richard Kaplan’s Presentation at AALS

University of Illinois’ Richard Kaplan will lead off the presentations at AALS’s Aging and Law section meeting later this week.  The theme of the program is “From the Affordable Care Act to Aging in Place:  What You Need to Know as You Grow Older.” 

Professor Kaplan’s presentation will focus on Medicare, and he has a practical focus, relevant to all AALS attendees (either sooner or later!). He observes, “Paying for health care costs in retirement is very different from what most academics have experienced during their working lives. This session will explain the four distinct Parts of Medicare and the various decisions that retirees must make regarding the coverages they want and the costs those decisions entail.”

Dick is well-known to elder law faculty and to the broader world of health-care and retirement income scholars, both nationally and internationally.  His article “Top Ten Myths of Medicare,” published in 2012, is one of the leading downloads on SSRN.

The Aging and the Law Section panel program runs from 3:30 to 5:15 on Friday, January 3, with a short Section Business meeting after the program.