Areas of Practice
Long Term Care Options
Long-term care includes a wide range of medical and support services. Long-term care expenses can be extremely costly, and you need to plan for them. If long-term care is needed, it will affect you and your caregivers financially, physically, and emotionally.
The most common type of long-term care is personal care - help with everyday activities, also called "activities of daily living". These activities include bathing, dressing, grooming, using the toilet, eating, and moving around - for example, getting out of bed and into a chair.
Long-term care may include the following type of care:
- Home Care
- Assisted Living
- Nursing Home
- Respite Care
- Rehabilitation Care
Medicaid/Title XIX Planning & Applications
When a loved one requires skilled nursing level care, many families face the difficult question on how to pay for the care required. Medicaid is the federally funded, and state administered program that pays for the cost of the nursing home and home care. However, certain asset and income requirements must be met. Medicaid can help with the expenses of in-home care, Assisted Living Facilities, nursing homes, and even Daycare/Respite programs.
Estate Planning
As life expectancies increase, more people are interested in creating a management plan for their financial and health care needs while they age as well as an estate plan. Effective estate planning offers asset protection and preservation. Proper estate planning puts in place decisions regarding elder care and management of affairs should a senior citizen become mentally or physically incapacitated. Durable powers of attorney, financial powers of attorney, joint tenancy, living wills, Medicaid planning, conservatorships, trusts, wills and various other legal approaches can be used to carry out estate planning.
Power of Attorney
A power of attorney is a legal document that allows you to appoint another person to manage them effectively yourself. The person appointed becomes the agent, or attorney-in-fact, and the person who appoints is known as the principal.
Advance Health Care Directives
Advance Health Care Directives (AHCD) gives you the ability to ensure that your healthcare wishes are known and considered if you become unable to make these decisions yourself. There are two primary documents discussed in the context of Advance Directive instructions - a Living Will and the naming of a healthcare agent for healthcare decisions.
