Entering a Nursing Home
Planning for
Nursing Home Care
If you’re entering a nursing home, you know how expensive it can be. Without an estate plan, the monthly costs could wipe out your savings and more for you and your spouse. But we can work with you right now to help you navigate long-term care and protect your assets.
Schedule a free meeting with one of our experts to learn more.
Managing
a Difficult Time
Moving yourself or a family member into a nursing home is an emotionally difficult time. You shouldn’t have to add the financial difficulty of losing your savings or home. We have been helping Ohioans manage the transition to nursing facilities for more than 12 years. And you can be sure that our attorneys have the experience and focus to help protect your assets and support your family through these trying times.
Putting Your Plan Together
Creating or updating an estate plan when you’re entering a nursing home isn’t just about managing the monthly costs. It’s also about making sure those long-term care costs don’t drain away everything you spent a lifetime building.
Building an effective plan may include:
Be sure a person you trust has the ability to make important decisions for you if you can’t.
If it’s been a while since you made your will or you used a template to do so, it’s time to update.
If you have an IRA, you’ll want to consider how you can keep it from being lost to long-term care costs.
Protect your life’s work from medical and long-term care costs.
Get help with qualifications, assistance, and understanding waivers.
Manage long-term care events and protect assets from high prices.
Our VA-accredited attorneys can help veterans and their families get the benefits they deserve.
Use our Lifetime Support to easily change plans when your life changes.
Keeping Our Focus on You
For more than 12 years, AlerStallings has been focused exclusively on estate planning and elder care.
We’ve helped thousands of people manage complex and emotional situations.
And we couldn’t do it without heart. Each of us is committed to helping you make the best decisions for you and your family.
Let us help you leave the
legacy you want.
Your Questions Answered
Having questions is not only common, it’s expected. With that in mind, we put together a list of some of the questions we get asked most often.
Elder law is an area of practice that focuses on issues affecting the aging population. An elder law attorney helps clients prepare for a more secure future by proactive planning focusing on protecting their autonomy and quality of life. Often times, an elder law attorney helps clients navigate complex Medicaid, VA and long-term care insurance laws.
These allow you to appoint someone you know and trust to make your personal health care and financial decisions even when you cannot. If you are incapacitated without these legal documents, then you and your family will be involved in a probate proceeding known as a guardianship and conservatorship. This is the court proceeding where a judge determines who should make these decisions for you under the ongoing supervision of the court.
We understand this is a tough situation and often parents don’t think they need help. But it is situations just like this that your parents appointed you to step in help. Whether it be via their healthcare or financial powers of attorney, it’s now your responsibility to make sure mom or dad is receiving the support they need.
No, Medicare does not provide long-term care or custodial care.