When a parent ends up in the hospital, it can be frightening. But it can also be chaotic if your parents have not yet thought about their wishes for health care, end-of-life, and their estate. What end-of-life and long-term care planning should they do?
Category: Medicaid

Protecting Assets from Medicaid: How Funding a Trust Can Help
We all want what is best for our families. Ideally, we would like to help loved ones on both ends of the continuum of life: the younger generation with expenses related to college, home buying, and starting their families; and the elder generation with expenses related to retirement, nursing home costs or assisted living situations and long-term medical care, if necessary. You have likely worke...
10 Common Mistakes People Make When Applying for Medicaid
Though the aging population continues to get larger, there is more need for long-term care. However, since most elderly Americans do not have long-term care insurance or have the assets to be self-insured, many people are dependent upon Medicaid, as Medicare’s coverage is much more limited when it comes to longer-term costs. The government helps to pay for the co...
Are My Nursing Home Expenses Covered By Medicaid?
For many people, Medicaid may carry a certain stigma. They often believe that it is only for those who are poor and that they would not qualify. However, what they do not know is that Medicaid is not just for “poor people” an...
How to Transfer Your Home Without Jeopardizing Your Medicaid Eligibility

Moving Overseas? Plan Ahead.
The Wall Street Journal recently provided some guidance for Americans relocating overseas in “Moving Abroad? Here’s the Checklist.” Insurance. These regulations are frequently at the country or state level, so insurance t...