Does Medicare cover long term care? What about Medicaid? These are tough questions, with somewhat complicated answers. Instead of one (really) long post, we're going to break this issue into a couple smaller posts. First, let's take a look at Medicare. According to Wikipedia, Medicare is defined as: A social insurance program administered by the
Happy holidays from everyone here at LTC Connects! If ever there is a time to thank each other for what we have, and to think positively about our long term care needs, it's now. For the next couple days think about what you have, instead of what you don't. When 2009 rolls around we will ...
The Women's Institute for Financial Education gives a good overview of why long term care is a crucial financial and emotional issue for women; Women, especially, bear the brunt of these care costs. Because women live ...
It's an important question, whether you are single, married with children, divorced, young or old. Considering that 39% of the people needing long term care are between the ages of 18 and 64, there is no wrong time to begin looking into insurance for long term care. As explained in ...