Monday, February 2, 2015

Tips in Helping your Parents Plan for Long Term Care



It is very challenging to keep track of your own finances like your child’s education, mortgage and car payment, and then your parents asked you for help. Are you ready to extend a helping hand?
There are some people who envisioned their retirement life enjoying the Caribbean, learning a new hobby or doing the things they were not able to do while they were working. However, healthcare and long-term care needs might burst your happy bubble. These things can affect enjoyment of life and as well as in leaving a big dent in your nest egg.

Fortunately, there are strategies that can help older adults lessen the impact of expensive long-term care expenses and they are the following:

1. VA benefits
2. Medicaid compliant SPIAs
3. Setting up a trust.

Working on these things with your parents will make the transitional stage of life more fluid and easier for the whole family. 

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