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When Someday Is Today: Carrying Forward the History of Old Age and Inheritance into the Age of Medicaid

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Hartog Hendrik. 2012. Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 353. $29.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Mary Anne Case
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Abstract

This review essay of Hendrik Hartog's (2012) Someday All This Will Be Yours undertakes a brief overview of some of the massive changes in middle‐class planning for old age and inheritance in the United States over the course of the past century, focusing on the increased role of the state as a source of funding and regulation, the rise of the elder law bar, and the resulting new tools and motives for the transfer of property in exchange for care in the age of Medicaid.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Spring 2015 , pp. 499 - 505
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2015 

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