Long-term care costs like nursing home care can quickly drain retirement savings. Medicare provides little help paying these ...

Whether or not a house is counted as assets under Medicaid coverage depends on a number of factors. For example, if Lillian ...

Since Maggie is in her 60s and still working, it’s unlikely she would meet the requirements for undue hardship if the state was to seize her mother’s home. It’s important to note that the state may ...

Question: My mom suddenly needs to be in a nursing home. Should I spend down her assets so she qualifies for Medicaid? Answer: If you’re in a situation where your mother needs nursing home care, you ...

There is an elderly person in my family, a beloved friend and relative, whose health has gone downhill. She owns a home and doesn't want to go to a nursing home. One reason is because she has heard ...

For Catholic Charities of New Hampshire and its six nursing homes, it’s impossible to overlook one provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that seems to have escaped the spotlight: the reduction ...

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to low-income individuals, including children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and seniors. For seniors, it helps ...

Seniors relying on Medicare escaped Trump's big budget law mostly unscathed. Those on Medicaid may not. President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act left Medicare relatively unscathed, but a ...

Planning for long-term care is one of the hardest financial puzzles families face. In New York, one woman laid it out in plain terms on an aging-care forum: Can my mother cash out her annuity to pay ...