Almost every family that calls about Medicaid is somewhere on a single timeline. At one end is the family thinking about a healthy parent’s future, years before any care is needed. At the other is the family that just got the call from the hospital, where a discharge to a nursing home is days away … Read more

A Medicaid Asset Protection Trust is one of the more powerful planning tools in elder law, and also one of the most misunderstood. People hear that a trust can protect the family home from a nursing-home spend-down and they want one immediately, often without appreciating what they are giving up to get that protection. The … Read more

The phone calls usually come at one of two moments. Either a family is sitting with a parent who is still well and trying to think ahead, or someone has just learned that a hospital discharge is heading toward a nursing home and the bills are about to start. The questions are nearly always the … Read more

The question comes up in almost every long-term-care conversation, usually phrased the same way. Will Medicaid take my house? It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than reassurance. The honest version is this. Rhode Island Medicaid does not seize the home while a recipient is alive in the ordinary case, … Read more