Long-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It - Softcover

Matthews Attorney, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413308988 ISBN 13: 9781413308983

Publisher: NOLO, 2008

Synopsis

Get the best care in the right place, for the right price -- this book shows you how!

Finding the right long-term care often means making difficult decisions during difficult times. Long-Term Care helps you understand the alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to find the best care you can afford.

With Long-Term Care, you'll be able to:

evaluate long-term care insurance

arrange home care

explore options beyond nursing homes

choose a nursing facility

get the most out of Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs

protect your assets, and

recognize and prevent elder fraud.

The completely updated 7th edition has an all-new chapter on long-term care insurance and updated coverage of Medicaid. It also includes up-to-date benefit numbers, laws and taxes, and revised information on veterans' benefits.

With sensitivity and clarity, Attorney Joseph Matthews gives you everything you need to help plan for and make the best arrangements for long-term care.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Matthews has been an attorney since 1971, and from 1975 to 1977 he taught at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. He has for many years been involved in matters relating to seniors, and is the author of Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions and Long Term Care: How to Plan & Play for It, as well as How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim.

Review:

A straight-talking guide to choosing and paying for a nursing home, assisted living site, or home care. (Leonard Wiener U.S. News & World Report 20090101)

"A straight-talking guide to choosing and paying for a nursing home, assisted living site, or home care." (Leonard Wiener, U.S. News & World Report 20080508)

"One of the best books on the topic." (Money 20080304)

"This book offers great advice about selecting a nursing home." (Liz Pulliam Weston, Chicago Sun-Times 20080408)

Covers all the angles, from various kinds of care to evaluating facilities and insurance, to protecting your assets, and even detecting and preventing elder fraud. (Accounting Today 20090101)

This book offers great advice about selecting a nursing home. (Liz Pulliam Weston Chicago Sun-Times 20090101)

Provides answers to some of the most difficult questions faced when dealing with how to best care for a senior citizen... should be required reading for anyone who must deal with care options for the elderly. (Legal Publishing Preview 20090101)

Evaluates home health, residential and nursing care facilities, and nursing home insurance; it also looks at Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs. (Modern Maturity 20090101)

One of the best books on the topic. (Money 20090101)

A practical source of information for families seeking good, affordable care for seniors. (Parent Care Advisor 20090101)

About this edition

• Publisher: NOLO
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1413308988
• ISBN 13: 9781413308983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384