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Senior Americans often find that despite saving responsibly for decades, their retirement nest egg won’t cover the costs of long term care. Instead, they end up liquidating all of their assets to qualify for medicaid, accumulating significant debt or even worse,  passing the expense of long term care on to their children and loved ones.

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The Cost of Long Term Care

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understand the cost of long term care

Long term care defines a range of services that refer to people with differing personal care needs. It isn’t something that can be defined as a single type of service. As a purely medical service long term care is a form of healthcare that delivers assistance to people with chronic illness or disability. However, for others it can also be a type of care that assists people who cannot perform basic tasks essential to normal living. These are known as Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) such as eating, dressing, bathing, getting out of bed, using the toilet and so forth. Then, for those who seek to continue living independently despite slipping health, long term care can even include assisting with Instrumental ADLs (IADLs) such as cooking, shopping, managing money, taking medications and other activities a fully functional person normally performs. Understanding the cost of long term care is crucially important for both Seniors and those close to retirement.

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Tap Into Life Insurance

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selling a term life insurance policy

When reaching the latter years of life, it is important to have certain things in place to maintain the standard of living you are used to, and to have the finances to support paying for home care or obtaining a paid caregiver. When faced with these decisions, there are a number of solutions that may work for you. One solution is selling a term life insurance policy through a reverse life insurance policy or a life settlement, which can give you a peace of mind, and the funds needed to do what you need while ensuring your care is in place.

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Viable solutions for assisted living costs

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medicaid life settlement can pay for aging in place

AARP shared the story of Patricia McCormack, whose mother was suffering from the initial stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Living in another state, the costs quickly escalated when having to travel to care for her mother, then finding the treatment would most likely include care in a locked memory care facility. These costs were over $108,000. After the treatment, her mother needed to reside in assisted living facility, which was $84,000. Neither the treatment or assisted living facility was covered by Medicaid.

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Paying For Home Health Care Costs

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pay for home health care costs

With an increasing population of aging Americans who now receive some level of medical care or other assistance in their homes, looking for ways to pay for home health care costs is a key challenge for a growing number of families. Although home health care costs vary among agencies and geographical location, consumers can expect to pay an average monthly cost of $3,813 for 44 hours of home health care provided by a home health aide. Skilled nursing services cost more.

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