The Life Care Plan places special emphasis on issues surrounding a long life. The Life Care Plan connects your concerns about long-term care as you go through the later stages of your life with the knowledge and expertise of the Elder Law Attorney and the Elder Care Coordinator who will be with you every step of the way to assist you in making the right choices.

Quality of Life and Quality of Care
There are three principal goals of the Life Care Plan:

1. Helping you and your loved one obtain good care, whether your care is provided at home or outside the traditional home setting such as an assisted-living facility, or, if necessary, a nursing home. This is the most important of all goals, for it goes to the very heart of your quality of life in your later years. Your Life Care Plan is focused first on your good health, safety, and well-being.
2. Helping you make decisions relating to your health care, long-term care and special needs. It is a comfort and a relief to clients and their families to know that they always have a resource of experienced, supportive, knowledgeable, and objective advisors with them every step of the way.
3. Helping you find sources to pay for good care, and helping you spend your money wisely and prudently on your care needs. The Life Care Plan protects and preserves the assets you have accumulated during a lifetime of hard work, thrifty behavior, and astute investment decision-making.

Your Care Questions Answered
Life Care Plans can help answer your questions about your long-term care and health care choices:

• What health care, chronic care, and long-term care services are available to me? How can I get the good care I need and desire, in my own home, a residential community or assisted-living facility, in a child’s home, or in a nursing home?
• How will financial and health care decisions be made for me if I cannot make them for myself?
• If I can’t take care of myself, who will make sure my spouse continues to have a good quality of life?
• If there is a health care crisis, what will we have to do? Where will we turn for the help we need?
• How do I know I am getting good care? Who will advocate and intervene for me if necessary to ensure my right to quality health care and long-term care?

Other Questions

• How do I assure my financial security as I get older?
• What public benefits am I entitled to?
• Should I rely on Medicaid or other government benefits to help pay for my care? How do I apply for benefits?
• What kinds of insurance do I need? Should I buy long-term care insurance? Should I join a Medicare HMO?
• How and when should I distribute my assets? Can I save taxes?
• Do I have to spend all of my money on my care, whether in my home or in a nursing home? How can I protect my assets to take care of my spouse, to ensure I get good care, or to leave to my children?
• How do I provide for family members with special needs?