Life Care Planning
Comprehensive Planning That Helps You and Your Family Cope With Your Loved One’s Changing Chronic Care Issues.
No matter whether you are living at home, in an assisted living facility or in a nursing home – Life Care Planning insures you get the best care possible under your circumstances, protects all the assets you can legally protect, and protects quality of life for the entire family.
Find out more out Life Care Planning below…
If you or someone you love needs help because of age or health problems, the team at Sisson & Sisson can help you navigate the long-term care maze. This is the beginning of a bewildering journey in which you and your family will be forced to make a number of very important decisions relating to health care, legal and financial issues. It is crucial that informed decisions be made in order to insure that you receive the best care possible. Now is the time to become educated about your choices.
Three primary questions help summarize the issues you face:
Sisson & Sisson helps seniors and their families find the right answers to these vital questions. We help our senior clients and their families find, get and pay for quality long-term care.
Whether your loved one is a parent, spouse or sibling... whether you live around the corner, in the next town, or a thousand miles away … assisting an aging family member with his or her needs as they age is one of the most important tasks a family member can assume. Yet life does not stand still while you adjust, take on more responsibility, and devote the time and energy it takes to make sure your loved one gets the best care and does the best planning possible. This situation often creates feelings of anxiety, guilt, fear, regret and a number of other emotions for the family members of the senior needing care. By allowing Sisson & Sisson to help, these feelings dissipate because families know they are taking the right steps and utilizing the right support to address all of the issues they face.
The experienced, supportive and knowledgeable attorneys and inter-disciplinary staff at Sisson & Sisson realize that most people are caught up in today’s hectic pace of living and cannot spend endless hours researching answers to the questions surrounding care for an aging loved one.
Our job at Sisson & Sisson is to utilize our experience to provide the answers you need, proactively plan both from a health care coordination and legal/financial perspective and ultimately provide you peace of mind. Through our process of LIFE CARE PLANNING we establish a long-standing relationship with our clients and their families, in order to ensure the stability of your loved one’s future and provide you with the support and expertise you need to navigate the long-term care maze.
To ensure the success of your LIFE CARE PLAN, we invite the entire family into the process to allow us to better understand where your loved one is situated on the “elder care continuum”. We then help you make the determination that is at the very heart of LIFE CARE PLANNING: Can your family member age at home with assistance or is it time to find an appropriate alternative residence? No matter the answer the next question must be addressed: What steps need to be taken to accomplish your goals?
Once this initial health care issue is addressed, Sisson & Sisson helps you address the innumerable questions that continue to arise, such as:
Some of the questions we help you answer:
What Is Life Care Planning?
Life Care Planning is a practical approach to filling your family’s current and future needs in a timely fashion. With a Life Care Plan, you avoid the trap that many families fall into – waiting for a crisis to occur. It is never wise to wait for an illness to progress to the point that emergency action must be taken … or to wait for a sudden accident, fall or stroke to occur which forces decisions to be made from a health, legal and financial standpoint. It is always better to plan ahead. Life Care Planning incorporates legal planning techniques along with the ongoing evaluation and monitoring of physical, psychological and financial needs by our professional care coordinators.
Our team at Sisson & Sisson works with you to design a customized Life Care Plan that helps you navigate the long-term care maze, allowing you to meet the inevitable challenges of caring for an aging family member, while taking into consideration the legal and financial needs and goals of our clients. Advocating for the best quality of care while protecting assets helps us protect our senior clients’ quality of life and bring peace of mind to the entire family.
Our Elder Care Coordinators assess your loved one’s situation, draw on their experience, research possible solutions and answer your questions about the type, amount and quality of care that is necessary. Then we explore all available sources of financial help. If expensive long-term care is being incurred or is on the horizon, we conduct a thorough analysis of Medicaid benefits. We answer all questions regarding how to qualify for Medicaid while protecting as much of our clients’ resources as legally possible.
Our Elder Care Coordinators work with the family to provide ongoing monitoring and assessment of your loved one’s situation, and facilitate any move that may be required from the home setting to a more secure environment. Establishing a long-standing relationship with our clients and their families allows the team at Sisson & Sisson to adapt to changing circumstances as our clients age and their health and financial situation changes.
Life Care Planning is a comprehensive approach to meeting your family’s current and future needs. We help you find, get and pay for the best quality long-term care that is available to you given your specific set of circumstances.
Primary Goals of Life Care Planning
The Three Principal Goals of Your Customized LIFE CARE PLAN Include:
In order to successfully achieve these goals, the team at Sisson & Sisson strives to reduce the financial burden of the high cost of care through a variety of outlets and research. We help our clients and their families:
At Sisson & Sisson, your LIFE CARE PLAN is customized to fit your family’s specific needs and desires. It includes all necessary legal documents, consultations and other services, providing you with peace of mind today, tomorrow and for a lifetime.
Find out more out Life Care Planning below…
If you or someone you love needs help because of age or health problems, the team at Sisson & Sisson can help you navigate the long-term care maze. This is the beginning of a bewildering journey in which you and your family will be forced to make a number of very important decisions relating to health care, legal and financial issues. It is crucial that informed decisions be made in order to insure that you receive the best care possible. Now is the time to become educated about your choices. Three primary questions help summarize the issues you face:
- How do I find the best quality care, no matter where I am living (whether at home or in a residential care facility)?
- How do I make sure I receive the best quality care once I decide on a provider of that care?
- How do I afford to pay for that care while protecting assets for my spouse and without having all of my hard earned savings consumed by expensive long-term care costs?
Sisson & Sisson helps seniors and their families find the right answers to these vital questions. We help our senior clients and their families find, get and pay for quality long-term care.
Whether your loved one is a parent, spouse or sibling... whether you live around the corner, in the next town, or a thousand miles away … assisting an aging family member with his or her needs as they age is one of the most important tasks a family member can assume. Yet life does not stand still while you adjust, take on more responsibility, and devote the time and energy it takes to make sure your loved one gets the best care and does the best planning possible. This situation often creates feelings of anxiety, guilt, fear, regret and a number of other emotions for the family members of the senior needing care. By allowing Sisson & Sisson to help, these feelings dissipate because families know they are taking the right steps and utilizing the right support to address all of the issues they face.
The experienced, supportive and knowledgeable attorneys and inter-disciplinary staff at Sisson & Sisson realize that most people are caught up in today’s hectic pace of living and cannot spend endless hours researching answers to the questions surrounding care for an aging loved one.
Our job at Sisson & Sisson is to utilize our experience to provide the answers you need, proactively plan both from a health care coordination and legal/financial perspective and ultimately provide you peace of mind. Through our process of LIFE CARE PLANNING we establish a long-standing relationship with our clients and their families, in order to ensure the stability of your loved one’s future and provide you with the support and expertise you need to navigate the long-term care maze.
To ensure the success of your LIFE CARE PLAN, we invite the entire family into the process to allow us to better understand where your loved one is situated on the “elder care continuum”. We then help you make the determination that is at the very heart of LIFE CARE PLANNING: Can your family member age at home with assistance or is it time to find an appropriate alternative residence? No matter the answer the next question must be addressed: What steps need to be taken to accomplish your goals?
Once this initial health care issue is addressed, Sisson & Sisson helps you address the innumerable questions that continue to arise, such as:
Some of the questions we help you answer:
- Are the current diagnoses and prognoses of my loved one accurate?
- Are the medical needs of my aging loved one being adequately addressed?
- Are my loved one’s prescriptions being managed appropriately?
- Are there medicines that my loved one should be taking to address an issue of concern?
- Are there medicines that my loved one is taking that may be causing issues of concern to arise?
- Is my loved one safe and well cared for?
- When is it appropriate to get involved with my loved one’s care?
- How do I find the best in-home care providers?
- How do I know how much in-home care to pay for, how to direct those services to the areas of greatest need and how to make sure the in-home care providers are doing their job?
- What is the estimated cost for my loved one’s current and future needs?
- How will that care be paid for?
- Can we qualify my loved one for Medicaid and protect assets for the spouse who does not need care at this time?
- At what point do we need to consider a move from home to a more secure environment?
- What are the options for residential care facilities that will meet my loved one’s specific needs?
- What is the standard of care that these facilities must abide by?
- How do I make sure that my loved one does not receive substandard care?
- How do I make sure that staff at the residential care facility explores all of the options that might make my loved one’s quality of care and quality of life the best it can be?
- What government and community resources may help pay for that care?
- How do I protect resources and income so that my spouse has enough money to live on?
What Is Life Care Planning?
Life Care Planning is a practical approach to filling your family’s current and future needs in a timely fashion. With a Life Care Plan, you avoid the trap that many families fall into – waiting for a crisis to occur. It is never wise to wait for an illness to progress to the point that emergency action must be taken … or to wait for a sudden accident, fall or stroke to occur which forces decisions to be made from a health, legal and financial standpoint. It is always better to plan ahead. Life Care Planning incorporates legal planning techniques along with the ongoing evaluation and monitoring of physical, psychological and financial needs by our professional care coordinators.Our team at Sisson & Sisson works with you to design a customized Life Care Plan that helps you navigate the long-term care maze, allowing you to meet the inevitable challenges of caring for an aging family member, while taking into consideration the legal and financial needs and goals of our clients. Advocating for the best quality of care while protecting assets helps us protect our senior clients’ quality of life and bring peace of mind to the entire family.
Our Elder Care Coordinators assess your loved one’s situation, draw on their experience, research possible solutions and answer your questions about the type, amount and quality of care that is necessary. Then we explore all available sources of financial help. If expensive long-term care is being incurred or is on the horizon, we conduct a thorough analysis of Medicaid benefits. We answer all questions regarding how to qualify for Medicaid while protecting as much of our clients’ resources as legally possible.
Our Elder Care Coordinators work with the family to provide ongoing monitoring and assessment of your loved one’s situation, and facilitate any move that may be required from the home setting to a more secure environment. Establishing a long-standing relationship with our clients and their families allows the team at Sisson & Sisson to adapt to changing circumstances as our clients age and their health and financial situation changes.
Life Care Planning is a comprehensive approach to meeting your family’s current and future needs. We help you find, get and pay for the best quality long-term care that is available to you given your specific set of circumstances.
Primary Goals of Life Care Planning
The Three Principal Goals of Your Customized LIFE CARE PLAN Include:
- Appropriate Care: Whether at home or in a residential care facility, we help make sure that your loved one receives the care that best fits their current and future needs. This is the most important of all goals as it goes to the very heart of your loved one’s long-term quality of life.
- Asset Protection Solutions: We help you find the best solutions to the asset protection problem that is created by the high cost of quality long-term care. We also help you find sources to pay for the quality long-term care by working through the confusing maze of choices and programs to ensure that all of your loved one’s needs are met throughout his or her lifetime.
- Peace of Mind: We provide the entire family with the peace of mind that comes from knowing that their loved one is well cared for and safe. Having the entire team at Sisson & Sisson as a resource at your disposal as you make important health, legal and financial decisions for your loved one allows you the peace of mind that you can and will make good decisions as things change. Peace of mind comes from knowing that you can competently deal with life’s changes that inevitably occur.
In order to successfully achieve these goals, the team at Sisson & Sisson strives to reduce the financial burden of the high cost of care through a variety of outlets and research. We help our clients and their families:
- Locate and affiliate with community agencies that offer assistance in a variety of areas;
- Determine what government benefits may be available to your loved one and work with you to obtain those benefits;
- Insulate you from having to deal with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare directly in the Medicaid application process because we handle that process for you. We deal with the government so that you don’t have to;
- Continue to monitor your LIFE CARE PLAN to make sure all legal documents are current and all assets are protected.
At Sisson & Sisson, your LIFE CARE PLAN is customized to fit your family’s specific needs and desires. It includes all necessary legal documents, consultations and other services, providing you with peace of mind today, tomorrow and for a lifetime.