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Connecticut Elder Law
Long Term Care and Elder Law in Connecticut
Planning for long-term care can be complicated, stressful, and confusing. Whether you’re proactively planning to protect assets long before you require long-term care, or in need of immediate assistance strategizing long-term care for yourself or a loved one, we assist individuals and their families by educating them on their planning options, providing tools and strategies to protect assets they’ve worked hard to acquire, and developing a long-term care plan that suits their individual medical needs and finances. Our attorneys remain up-to-date on the frequently changing laws surrounding Connecticut Medicaid applications and nursing homes. Whether you have preliminary questions about long-term care, or you want us to take over the burden of reviewing and preparing a Connecticut Medicaid application, our team can compassionately assist you so that you can focus on your loved one’s well-being and care.
When is the right time to plan for long-term care?
It is almost always never too early or too late to start planning for long-term care.
Pre-planning for long-term care: We assist people who desire to proactively protect assets well in advance of requiring long-term care. Many people feel that they have worked hard for their assets and they want to take legal steps to protect those assets for themselves and/or their families. We educate clients by clearly explaining what is required to protect assets, assist our clients with step-by-step implementation of the plan, and provide follow up advice once plans are in place. Common planning includes protection of the home, protection of out-of-state real estate, and utilizing assets in ways that best benefit the individual and/or family.
Planning for long-term care in the home: Many people prefer to receive care assistance in the comfort of their own home. We help individuals and families design customized long-term care plans tailored to their individual needs while guiding them on how to utilize their assets and/or government benefits to pay for long-term care in the home.
Planning for long-term care in a skilled nursing home: There may come a time when it is no longer medically safe to receive long-term care in one’s home. When that happens, we help individuals and families navigate selecting an assisted living facility or skilled nursing facility, interpreting and negotiating residency agreements, and designing a plan to help pay for the cost of long-term care with income, assets, or government benefits such as Title XIX a/k/a Medicaid.
What Connecticut government benefits are available for long-term care?
Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders (“CHCPE”): The CHCPE Program is a Medicaid program that helps individuals pay for long-term care in the comfort of their own home. We assist clients with applying for this program.
Medicaid: In Connecticut, Medicaid, also known as Title XIX, will pay for almost all of an individual’s long-term care needs in a skilled nursing facility. We help clients prepare for Medicaid applications by giving advice on how to “spend down” assets to qualify in ways that benefit the individual and/or family.
Why work with us?
By design, we focus on elder law issues of long-term care planning and Medicaid applications as one of our three total practice areas so that our attorneys have time to stay up to date on the latest planning strategies and options available to our clients. Our other practice areas of estate planning and probate overlap with long-term care and elder law issues so that we can provide up-to date advice to our clients on how to manage, protect, and utilize assets in ways the benefit the individual and family. We understand the legal, medical and financial requirements that must be met for eligibility for government benefits, but, equally important, we understand the need for compassionate planning in stressful and uncertain times while an individual or family member is going through a huge life transition of requiring care.