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Unexpected Emergencies Can Derail a Life Care Plan
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen RulisonCaregiver Support and Resources, LLC There’s so much to consider in life care planning. You’re worried about health and financial stability for your loved one who requires care (and everyone else involved). You must also factor family relationships and personal realities in this puzzle with […]

In Life Care Planning, it’s Essential to Factor the Unexpected
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen RulisonCaregiver Support and Resources, LLC Life care planning can be an uncertain process. And it’s tough even when you’re working with things you do know – like if your father has a living will or that eventually your aunt’s cancer treatments will no longer be […]

What Is Person-Centered Care? (& Why Is It Important?)
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen RulisonCaregiver Support and Resources, LLC We prefer it, even if so much of it is centered around language alone. What is person-centered care? It’s a philosophy that empowers the individual at the center of care. Sometimes individuals, as couples later in life often prefer to […]

Mom’s Still Healthy. Can Life-Care Planning Wait?
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen RulisonCaregiver Support and Resources, LLC Your parents (or other loved ones) are getting older. Most of us at this stage – watching them enter their “golden years” while getting “up there” ourselves – try to assess “the damage” to see when it’s appropriate to make […]

Medicaid 5-Year Lookback: Exceptions to Protect Assets & Achieve Eligibility in 2023
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen RulisonCaregiver Support and Resources Reflecting can be a good thing. But when it comes to the Long-Term Care Medicaid and the 5-year lookback period examining financial eligibility, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Many of us approaching the twilight of life intend on distributing our assets […]

Medicaid Eligibility in Florida: 2023 Community Spouse Resource Allowance
Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) By Maureen RulisonCaregiver Support and Resources Long-Term Care Medicaid eligibility in Florida – or rather the financial figures determining eligibility – changes slightly each year. When qualifying for Medicaid, individuals and married couples alike must show the government they don’t have enough money, property and other assets […]