Category Archives: Long Term Care
How Asset Protection Planning Can Help Safeguard Your Legacy
Asset Protection Attorneys Palm Beach County and Martin County FL Most people spend a lifetime carefully accumulating whatever financial wealth and tangible assets they can, in order to live comfortably, eventually passing the balance of that legacy on to their beneficiaries. Comprehensive and highly-personalized estate plans and elder law measures should include strategies related… Read More »
How Medicaid Planning Today Can Help Pay for Long-Term Care Tomorrow
Medicaid Planning and Elder Law Attorneys, Palm Beach County and Martin County FL The Medicaid program was established to provide medical coverage to low-income American individuals and families for their healthcare needs. Among the benefits provided within Medicaid is financial coverage for those 65 and older, for long-term care in facilities such as assisted… Read More »
What Is the 5-Year Look Back Period for Medicaid?
Most Florida residents considering Medicaid planning measures are aware that Medicaid has a five-year look back period that applies to asset transfers. However, they don’t precisely know how this works, nor how it affects their eligibility for Medicaid benefits. Before explaining the five-year look back period, though, we first need to explain how Medicaid… Read More »
Florida Medicaid Planning to Preserve Your Wealth
As you grow older, you or your loved ones may require long-term nursing home services that threaten to completely drain your savings. Although Medicaid is designed to pay for these kinds of costs if financial circumstances prevent a family from being able to afford them, Medicaid will not go into effect until all your… Read More »
Long Term Care Planning Strategies
Most Florida residents hope to live as long as possible, but they don’t usually plan for the day they will no longer be able to care for themselves. This is what long term care planning is all about, and no estate plan is complete without some way of dealing with a situation where you… Read More »
Planning for Long-Term Care in Florida
Most Florida residents reading this article are probably healthy enough to take care of themselves right now, but we all grow older. Sooner or later, many of us will need some help completing our daily living tasks through long-term care. Long term care might include living in a nursing home with round-the-clock nurses and… Read More »
Long Term Care Planning and Insurance for Florida Residents
Not every Florida resident will require long term care before he or she passes away, but a large number of us will. For that reason, it is important to think about this eventuality and prepare for it accordingly as a component of our estate plans. There is a high likelihood that you will require… Read More »
Long Term Care Planning: Medical Preparations
When it comes to long term care planning, it is always important to ensure that an individual’s medical wishes will be carried out, even if the person becomes too incapacitated to make his or her wishes known. For this reason, it is important to consider the following things in terms of medical preparations as… Read More »
What Kind of Home Care Is Available to the Elderly?
Home care is a term that includes a wide variety of different kinds of services that elderly and/or mobility impaired individuals can receive in the comfort of their own homes. Home care is a very important way for elderly individuals to keep living in their homes and stay more independent in their lives than… Read More »
Medicaid and Long Term Care Planning
Kitroser Lewis & Mighdoll helps individuals and families with their long term care planning needs. We know how difficult it is to think about your future, when you might be incapacitated and unable to care for yourself, but we also know that individuals who are prepared for this possibility ahead of time will have… Read More »