“The Language of Long-Term Care: Navigating the care maze can be overwhelming; understanding the lingo can help,” by Christine Benz, Morningstar
“As I reflect on my parents’ final years, a period that included multiple hospital stays, trips to rehab, and the hiring of in-home caregivers, I realize that my siblings and I were often a step behind with our responses. We initially hired in-home caregivers to help for 10 to 20 hours a week when, in hindsight, we should have had them there every day. We made the difficult decision to move my dad to a long-term care facility with memory care only after he had taken a few serious falls at home that caused him a lot of physical discomfort. And so on.”
LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):
This author and her family could have had crucial care management help if they’d had LTCI. So much of what she says in the article about LTCI and Medicaid is wrong. We’ll reach out to her, explain some things and send her How to Fix Long-Term Care Financing (2017).
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