Long-Term Care: How to Plan and Pay for It (Your Legal Companion) - Softcover

Finding the right kind of long-term care, in the right place, often requires making difficult decisions in difficult times. Long-Term Care helps you understand the many alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to fit the care you need to the funds you have available.Learn how to: § Arrange Home Care § Find a Non-Nursing Facility Residence § Choose a Nursing Home § Get the Most out of Medicare, Medicaid and Other Benefit Programs § Evaluate Long-Term Care Insurance § Protect Some of Your Assets The completely updated 6th edition includes new information on hospice care. It also provides up-to-date benefits figures, as well as updated information on laws and taxes, and the latest resources and websites.

Joseph L. Matthews, Attorney Joseph Matthews has been an attorney since 1971, and 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, as well as How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim. He lives in San Francisco, CA.