A Life Care Plan is your roadmap; a guide through the frustrating and confusing maze of your aging loved one’s chronic care needs.

A Life Care Plan focuses on a holistic approach to your needs by combining the legal expertise of an Elder Law attorney with the skilled training of a Registered Nurse, Elder Care Coordinator, VA Benefits Specialist and Medicare Specialist.”

The Life Care Plan places special emphasis on issues surrounding long life. The Life Care Plan connects your concerns about long-term care as you go through the later stages of your life with our knowledge and expertise at the law practice of Dennison Keller.

A Life Care Plan includes:

Legal Services of an Elder Law Attorney to protect your loved one’s rights and preserve family wealth for future generations.

• Medicaid Planning and strategies to access all available public benefits.
  
  
• Coordination of public and private resources to pay for long term care.
  
  
• Wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance directives.
  

Elder Care Coordination to advocate for your loved one and maximize his or her quality of life.

• A lifetime ally to guide your family through every step of your loved one’s chronic care.
  
  
• Education – training that teaches you when to call for services and where you will get results.
  
  
• At home and on-site assessments to identify your loved one’s care needs and provide assistance in meeting them.
  
  
• Solutions that help you find and arrange in-home help.
  
  
• Organization of transportation needs.
  

One flat fee.

Planning Goals

There are three principal goals of the Life Care Plan that we help you develop and implement:

1. We help make sure that you or your loved one gets good care, whether that care is at home or outside the traditional home setting. This is the most important of all goals, for it goes to the very heart of your quality of life in your later years. Your Life Care Plan is focused first on your good health, safety, and well-being.
   
   
2. We help you make decisions relating to your long-term care and special needs. We are your resource of experienced, supportive, knowledgeable, and objective advisors.
   
   
3. We help you find sources to pay for good long-term care. We work with you through the maze of choices and options to find the best, or often, the most comfortable solution to the asset protection problem created by the need to pay for quality long-term care.
   

• How do I assure my financial security as I get older?
  What public benefits am I entitled to, and what do I have to do to qualify for them?
  
  
• Should I rely on Medicaid or other government benefits to help pay for my care? How do I apply for benefits?
  
  
• What kinds of insurance do I need? Should I buy long-term care insurance? Should I join a Medicare HMO?
  
  
• How and when should I distribute my assets? Can I save taxes and avoid probate?
  
  
• Do I have to spend all of my money on my care, whether in my home or in a residential care facility such as a nursing home? How can I protect my assets to take care of my spouse, to ensure I get good care, or to leave to my children?
  
  
• How do I provide for family members with special needs?
  

Your Life Care Plan will be customized to fit your desires and needs. Your Life Care Plan can then provide you the road map to follow to achieve your care and asset protection goals. And, when changes occur, we stay with you every step of the way to help you shift to another road as it becomes necessary.

Your Life Care Plan therefore includes both elder law and care assessment and coordination services.