Insights & Guidance for Planning Ahead

Sometimes, the most important part of caring for an aging loved one is recognizing when the care they are receiving is no longer enough.

Last time we discussed some of the broad general rules about what resources you can keep and qualify for Medicaid. Those rules were for a single individual. The rules vary greatly when the applicant is married. Generally, when you are married there is a snapshot taken of a date that a person needs long-term care. That snapshot can go all the way back to a hospitalization. The snapshot is a freeze frame of the resources that you have on that snapshot date. Some of th