What happens if you or a loved one need to stay in a Massachusetts nursing home? Do you have a plan? If you are planning ahead for the future of your older years and are assuming that Medicare might pick up the tab, if and when you need a nursing home, that’s not always the… Read More »
Posts Categorized: Long-Term Care Planning
Workers Nervous About the Impact of Long-Term Care
If long-term care isn’t at the top of your mind for your own reasons, you might be thinking about this issue from the perspective of being an adult child looking ahead to help your parents navigate their own transition to retirement. But even if your most immediate concerns have to do with aging loved ones,… Read More »
What Should You Keep in Mind When Selecting Long-Term Care for A Person with Alzheimer’s?
Your family is faced with multiple different challenges when attempting to decide what is the most appropriate route of care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. You might have recognized that you and your other family members are no longer able to care for a person with advanced Alzheimer’s disease at home. This person might… Read More »
How Much Do I Need for Medical Expenses in Retirement?
Have you thought ahead about how you’ll afford long term care? Do you have a plan in place to qualify for MassHealth as soon as possible? If not, you could be setting you and your family members up for an unexpected surprise. Long term care expenses are only going up. Even with increasing longevity, most… Read More »
Do You Have a Plan for Long-Term Care?
Are you one of the many Americans who plans to stay independent in your home for many years? It can come as a shock that you might suffer from some type of disability that leaves you in need of support from a long-term care facility. If your plan is for your children to take care… Read More »
What You Need to Know About Long Term Care Following an Incapacitating Event
A major concern for many clients today is what will happen if they require long term health care in a nursing home, but are no longer at the point where they can make important health care and financial decisions on their own due to a prolonged medical condition, serious injury, or dementia. This is particularly… Read More »
Is America Facing a Long-Term Care Crisis?
Are you prepared for how you’ll need to set up your future long-term care expectations? If not, you could be exposing your loved ones. Getting older requires considering tools such as powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and other estate planning documents. From the possibility of developing mobility issues, chronic diseases, Alzheimer’s or some other condition… Read More »
Three Ways to Pay for Nursing Home Care
Do you believe that your spouse or family member needs the support of ongoing nursing home care? If this is currently something impacting your family, you probably have many questions around the process and what option to pay makes the most sense for your situation. Whether you have a family member struggling with an Alzheimer’s… Read More »
What Will Long Term Care Cost Me in Massachusetts?
Some people are mistakenly under the impression that Medicare covers long term care services. Medicare does not pay for the vast majority of services under the umbrella of long term care. This includes custodial care, which is the vast majority of LTC services. Custodial care steps in when a person needs help with eating, walking,… Read More »
What Services Does an Elder Law Attorney Provide?
There are several reasons you might want to form a relationship with a lawyer who has experience in both estate planning and elder law. As your life evolves, what you need from an attorney could change, especially as you look towards retirement. Most elder law attorneys help you with a variety of legal concerns related… Read More »