A majority of people who reach the age of 65 will need long term care sometime in their lives whether permanently or temporarily. Since women live longer than men, they generally require long term care longer, [...]
When you picture a nursing home, who do you imagine there? Most likely, you envision relatively young nurses, therapists, and other staff, along with relatively old residents. But, although the elderly do make up the majority [...]
What happens if you need skilled nursing care before retirement? Although we often think of nursing homes as a place for the very old, life is hardly so predictable that we can ignore the risk of [...]
Hi there, Bridget Mackay with the Law Offices of Bridget Mackay in Petaluma, California. I practice in the area of estate planning and elder law. And today I want to talk about the three M's. I'm [...]
As the old saying has it, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. We all tend to compare our own situations with those of the people around us. But when we [...]
If you’ve been following my blog for any amount of time, you probably realize that planning for long-term Medi-Cal can be a highly complicated process. Because of this, some people who are not used to complicated [...]
Medi-Cal is a joint medical-welfare program of California and the federal government. Long-term Medi-Cal is California’s version of long-term Medicaid, which helps needy individuals pay for care in a skilled nursing facility (i.e., a nursing home). [...]
One of the most common questions that Californians have about qualifying themselves or a loved one for long-term Medi-Cal is whether they will have to lose all of their property to be eligible. After all, long-term [...]
If you look for information on long-term Medi-Cal online, you’ll find many posts—including some of my own—that focus on the initial eligibility determination. That makes sense, because it’s a complex topic on its own and is [...]
In the last decade, several companies have begun offering relatively inexpensive genetic tests to consumers. For as little as $100, these tests can help people trace their ancestry and, more importantly for present purposes, identify genes [...]
