The Long Term Care Guide : Practical Steps for Making Difficult Decisions

Compact new guide walks you - or your clients - through the maze of issues to consider when making long-term care choices. Focuses on the most common, crucial factors for determining long-term care needs, including: - Funding Long term care - Long-term care for a young or disabled person - How to qualify for government care programs - Evaluating long-term care settings and facilities - Ins & outs of long-term care insurance policies: What do they cover? What don't they?? Are they affordable?? When clients think these issues through now, difficult choices will be easier down the road.Most people embrace life with a positive outlook on longevity and goodhealth, rarely considering the alternative. But most of us - young or old, single or married with children - will need to contemplate long-term care decisions for ourselves or a loved one eventually. These decisions can be emotionally and financially draining if advance preparations have not been made.Now, a compact new guide walks you through the maze of issues you need to consider when making long-term care choices. In his simple, straightforward style financial planning expert Don Korn focuses on the most common and crucial factors for determining long-term care needs, including:o Funding long-term care - what options are available if financialresources are not?o Long-term care for a young or disabled person - do the same policies apply?o How to qualify for government care programs such as Medicaid -and is that the best route for the family or the heirs?o Evaluating long-term care settings and facilities - what to look for, and how to guarantee that choices are honored?