Pro-Active Life Care Planning vs.
Re-Active Crisis Management
Many attorneys do not work with elders until they are facing a crisis created by the need for nursing care. Until the crisis --which typically happens late in the elder’s life-- the burden of researching, coordinating and delivering care for the elder falls completely on the primary caregiver. If you are like most people, this may be the first time you have had to deal with the problems that come with aging, disability or chronic illness. You may have been shouldering the burden alone. You might feel confused and burnt out by trying to coordinate and deliver care for months or years. What happens when it all becomes too much? You have a crisis!
Care Crisis
You realize you have to make immediate arrangements for long term care to protect your loved one’s health and safety, without the benefit of time and careful consideration of all available options.
Financial Crisis
You do not know how much long term care will cost and how to pay for the needed care without going broke. You may not know if your loved one is eligible for and/or how to apply for Medicaid, Veterans benefits or other entitlement programs.
Legal Crisis
You realize your loved one did not execute their estate and incapacity documents while they were well and that you will now have to attempt the same in order to act on their behalf. If you are unable to execute their estate and incapacity planning documents, are you prepared for guardianship litigation?
Emotional Crisis
You realize that the loved one you worked so hard to care for needs more help than you can give. You may feel overwhelmed by the flood of emotions you experience.
Relationship Crisis
The pressure of making long term care decisions increases and old family conflicts may re-appear. Family harmony can be broken irrevocably.
Life Care Planning for Seniors is designed to avoid all of these potential problems through proactive planning. By reviewing all relevant issues without the haste or stress, we will help to gather and assemble all required information and consider and plan for all contingencies in order to appropriately plan and proceed before crisis strikes. To take unnecessary stress out of the experience, we work with you to consider all current and future issues of the loved one.
Call us today for an assessment of your Life Care options
Maryland (301) 214-2229
Virginia (703) 243-3200
Washington DC (202) 223-0270
