Life Care Planning
The Life Care Plan© is a new specialty of elder law emerging around the country. While traditional elder law or “medicaid planning” law firms focus on saving the elder’s money for the next generation, Life Care Planning law firms use the elder’s money to maximize his or her quality of life and independence. In essence, Life Care Planning helps people find and pay for good care for life by bundling asset protection, public benefits qualification, care coordination, nursing home advocacy and crisis intervention.
There are three principal goals of the Life Care Plan: first, helping you and your loved one obtain good care, whether at home, an assisted living facility, or if necessary, a nursing home. Second, helping you make decisions relating to your health care, long-term care, and special needs. Third, helping you find resources to pay for good care, and helping you spend your money wisely and prudently on your care needs.
The Life Care Plan utilizes the elder care continuum©, and connects your concerns about long-term health care as you go through the later stages of your life with the knowledge and expertise of an Elder Law Attorney and an Elder Care Coordinator who will be with you and your loved ones every step of the way to assist you in making the right choices.
Who benefits from Life Care Planning? Any senior with a health condition that has the potential to impact their ability to care for themselves. Caregivers also benefit from the support offered by the Elder Care Coordinator in finding and securing quality care and having a knowledgeable person to turn to when problems arise. The Elder Care Coordinator help clients and families assess and identify health and care problems and assist in solving them, assists families in identifying and arranging in home help or other services, reviews medical issues and offer referrals to other geriatric specialists to provide appropriate care while conserving financial resources, coordinates with medical and health providers, provides support, guidance and advocacy during a crisis and offers counseling and support.
A Life Care Planning law firm can remove the burdens of planning, financing and obtaining proper long term health care while allowing family members to spend time with their loved ones.
