Life Care Planning in Georgia

A Life Care Plan is a holistic, elder-centered solution for families struggling with the demands of an elderly loved one's care. Combining expert legal advice along with care coordination, allows us to support families and help the elder maximize their quality of life and independence. A Life Care Plan shifts the focus to utilizing resources to pay for log-term care vs leaving an inheritance for heirs.

We help families make immediate arrangements for long-term care in order to promote an elder's health and safety, handling all the legal work and helping families find and pay for the right care (include Medicaid and other public benefits qualification as needed and desired) without bankrupting the elder. But some families need so much more including care coordination and support to families whose elderly loved ones are still living at home or with family. On-staff care coordinators locate and coordinate needed care and community services, offer family education and serve as the elder's advocate. Our firm can lighten the load for family caregivers, improve the elder's quality of life and can even postpone the need for nursing home care.

Second, while the elder is still living at home or with family we can develop a plan to address the myriad of legal, financial, health care, housing, and long-term care issues created by the elder's chronic illness, disability, and functional decline. If and when nursing home care is needed, the family will already have a plan in place to access public benefits as well as to find and pay for needed care. Instead of reacting to crises as they occur, our advanced planning enables elders and their families to avoid the asset protection crisis that occurs when last-minute decisions must be made about their elderly loved one's long-term care.

Third, when the elder is in a residential care facility, we assign a care coordinator to make regular visits, maintain the elder's relationship with the firm, assess quality of care, and serve as the family's advocate. If good care is not being provided, member firms may intervene in order to resolve problems before injury occurs, thereby offering reassurance to family members -- near and far -- that the elder will enjoy the highest quality of life.