Long-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It

Get the very best care you can afford Finding long-term care often means making difficult decisions. But the more you know about long-term care, the better off you or your loved one will be. Whether you’re planning well into the future or making an urgent decision now, Long-Term Care helps you understand the full range of your options. You’ll also learn how to: evaluate nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and home care providers to find the right one find out what lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on any nursing facility you’re considering get the most out of Medicaid, Medicare, and veterans’ programs consider the special needs of loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s, and decide whether long-term care insurance is worth the significant expense. The Editors of Nolo include over 20 editors and a team of researchers. Most of Nolo’s editors left careers as practicing lawyers in favor of furthering the company’s mission: Getting legal information into the hands of people who need it.