Marshall Snyder cared for his elderly mother who, prior to her death, had Lewy Body Dementia, a form of dementia characterized by symptoms of both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Legal, medical and financial issues all interact whenever elderly parents are no longer able to care for themselves. What are we going to do now is what the families ask. Can we keep Mom or Dad out of the nursing home? Can a family member care for them? If they go into a nursing home, who pays and how much? Can Medicaid take the house? He is a graduate of the Mississippi College School of Law and has practiced law in Nashville, Tennessee, for over twenty years.