The Medicaid Planning Handbook: A Guide to Protecting Your Family's Assets from Catastrophic Nursing Home Costs: A Guide to Protecting Your Family's Assests from Nursing Home Costs

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A family coping with the serious illness of one of its members can be emotionally devastated. Not the least of their concerns is the crippling financial burden that accompanies a long-term health problem. Attorney Bove shows how to plan for the economic side of catastrophic illness. Bove walks us through the Medicaid morass, packing a small book with facts, definitions, and case studies that illustrate how to protect family assets when a loved one is entering a nursing home. He explains the laws governing Medicaid and Medicare and distinguishes revocable and irrevocable trusts as well as the role they play in preserving financial stability. He also discusses long-term care insurance, durable powers of attorney, and arranging for the guardianship of incompetent persons. Bove's book lacks the sample forms and model trusts included in Armond D. Budish's Avoiding the Medicaid Trap ( LJ 7/89), but is nonetheless a concise presentation of valuable information. Highly recommended for public libraries.- Joan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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The federal Medicaid program covers long term care expenses for the elderly, but only when a family can no longer pay those expenses itself - only after its life savings have been wiped out and the family home has been sold. This fully revised and updated edition of The Medicaid Planning Handbook shows how to avoid financial ruin by planning in advance for your parents' and your own long term care. The Medicaid Planning Handbook reviews the current Medicaid rules; covers in great detail all the available options for protecting assets from devastating nursing home costs; and explains how to use devices such as revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and intrafamily transfers, with a special emphasis on ways to protect the home. Alexander A. Bove offers clear, concise advice for every situation - both those in which there are no immediate long term care problems and those in which one or both spouses are already in a nursing home.


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