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In addition to helping your family after your death, a prepaid funeral contract can be a good way to spend down assets in order to qualify for Medicaid.

Some 6.4 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries -- including most nursing home residents -- will lose their Medic...

Medicaid "has become a lifeline for millions of people who require nursing home care," and "simply cutting the progr...

The New York Times Magazine ethics column ("The Ethicist") recently featured a question from a man who had in...

Family caregivers of patients with dementia report high levels of psychiatric and physical symptoms. It might be as...

A federal appeals court has ruled that while states may consider retirement accounts held by the spouses of nursing ...

Have you ever considered how nursing home residents get to vote, and what happens to their right to vote if they are...

There sometimes is a lengthy gap between the time that a nursing home resident shifts from being a private pay resi...