Your Elder Law Attorney Expert

BIOGRAPHY:

 

Kyla Kelim is an elder law attorney and principal of Aging in Alabama, an elder law firm, in Fairhope, Alabama, and prolific regional and national speaker, dedicating her practice to topics of interest to seniors, their families, caretakers and professionals assisting them, to protect their life’s work.  Mrs. Kelim provides consultation and advocacy for older Americans, their families, caregivers and professionals. The firm and aims to protect their clients' life's work by proactive planning and assisting those in need due to catastrophic illness or injury as they navigate the often treacherous administrative schemes of nursing home Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. Ms. Kelim provides consultations throughout the Southeast United States. She is a prolific speaker and has practiced in Alabama and Florida for more than 20 years. Ms. Kelim earned her B.S. degree from the University of New Orleans and her J.D. degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

 

She lives in Fairhope with her husband, Patrick and their two boys, Payton and Pierce. 

 

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

 

Speaking engagements for 2012:

 

·        Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid 2012, NBI Seminars, national CLE all day course, February 2012

·        Medicaid Update 2012, NBI Seminars, national CLE all day course, June and November 2012

·        Fundamentals of Elder Law, live all day seminar, Pensacola, FL, November 2012

·        Alabama Medicaid Update 2012, NBI Seminars, teleconference, August 2012

·        South Carolina Medicaid Update 2012, NBI Seminars, teleconference, August 2012

·        Sandwiched In:  Taking care of your parents, your children and your business without losing your shirt, a roundtable seminar presented by the Women’s Business Center of South Alabama, Spanish Fort, Alabama, and Gulf Shores, Alabama, October 2012

·        Estate Planning Seminar:  End of the year tax tips:  Giving and Receiving: A Holiday Tale, hosted by The Haven no kill shelter, Thomas Hospital, Fairhope, Alabama, November 2012

·        Simple Truths About Aging, Presented at the Mobile Area Senior Citizen Center, December, 2012

 

 

Speaking engagements for 2013:

 

·        Advanced Elder Law, NBI Seminars, national CLE all day course, March 2013

·        Estate Planning Seminar: hosted by The Haven no kill shelter, Fairhope, Alabama, March 2013

·        Protecting your Assets while Qualifying for Medicaid, NBI Seminars, all day course, April 2013, to be re-aired November 2013

·        Estate Planning Seminar: Protecting your intentions, hosted by The Haven no kill shelter, James P. Nix Centre, Fairhope, AL  April 2013

·        Planning for Dual Eligible Medicare/Medicaid, NBI Teleconference, June 2013

·        Estate Planning Seminar: hosted by The Haven no kill shelter, Fairhope, Alabama, July 2013

·        Estate Planning Seminar: hosted by The Haven no kill shelter, Fairhope, Alabama, November 2013

·        Advanced Elder Law, NBI Seminars, Birmingham, Alabama, December 2013

 

Speaking engagements for 2014:

 

·        The Sandwich Generation: How to take care of your parents without losing your mind..and your business.  Women’s Business Center, Inc., Quarterly Quorum, Mobile, Alabama, January 2014

·        Top Elder Care Strategies, NBI Seminars, all day course, April 10, 2014

·        New Medicaid eligibility requirements under the ACA, NBI Seminars teleconference, April 15, 2014

·        Medicaid planning, M.Lee Smith, August 15 2014

 

 

Sample of presentations:

 

·        Medicare issues

·        Long term care planning

·        Medicaid qualification

·        Protecting your estate plans

·        Preserving your home

·        Preparing a care plan

·        Coordinating benefits

·        ACA planning

·        Elder protection laws

·        Consumer protection

·        Estate planning demystified

·        Protecting the disabled

Crabby Old Man!

When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte , Nebraska , it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.

Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. 
One nurse took her copy to Missouri.

The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based 
on his simple, but eloquent, poem.

And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet.


Crabby Old Man

What do you see nurses? . . .. .. . What do you see?
What are you thinking . . . . . when you're looking at me?
A crabby old man . . . . . not very wise,
Uncertain of habit . . . . . with faraway eyes?

Who dribbles his food . . . . . and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice . . . . . 'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice . . . . . the things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . A sock or shoe?

Who, resisting or not . . . . . lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding . . . . . The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking? . . . . . Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse . . . . . you're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am. . . . . . As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, . . . . . as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of Ten . . . . . with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . . . who love one another.

A young boy of Sixteen . . . . with wings on his feet.
Dreaming that soon now . . . . . a lover he'll meet.
A groom soon at Twenty . . . . . my heart gives a leap.
Remembering, the vows . . . . . that I promised to keep.

At Twenty-Five, now . . . . . I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . . . And a secure happy home.
A man of Thirty . . . . . My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . . . . With ties that should last.

At Forty, my young sons . . .. . . have grown and are gone,
But my woman's beside me . . . . . to see I don't mourn.
At Fifty, once more, babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children . . . . . My loved one and me.

Dark days are upon me . . . . . my wife is now dead.
I look at the future . . . . . shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing . . . . . young of their own.
And I think of the years . . . . . and the love that I've known.

I'm now an old man . . . . . and nature is cruel.
Tis jest to make old age . . . . . look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles . . . . . grace and vigor, depart.
There is now a stone . . . . where I once had a heart.

But inside this old carcass . . . . . a young guy still dwells,
And now and again . . . . . my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys . . . . . I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . life over again.

I think of the years, all too few . . . . . gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . . that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people . . . . . open and see.
Not a crabby old man .. . . Look closer . . . see ME!!