Planning ahead for long term care and how you’ll support yourself in retirement includes careful consideration of your estate planning documents and your health care desires. Articulating these in legal documents with the help of an estate planning attorney and sharing with your friends and family members your intentions for living independently or using a… Read More »
Posts Categorized: Long term care
How Does Increasing Longevity Influence Your Retirement Planning?
Although most individuals are aware of the benefits of planning for retirement, longer lifespans mean that it’s very important to think about the lifestyle you will have after you stop working. An individual who retires at age 65 may have 15 or more years to make his or her retirement funds last. Given the potential… Read More »
How Long-Term Care Progresses for the Typical Patient
Long-term care exists along a continuum, with many patients initially requiring only modest or occasional services and then progressing to increasingly more intensive stages of care. Forbes recently outlined that continuum for their readers. It looks something like this: In-home help from family and friends In-home health care aides (professionals you hire to help the… Read More »