How to Protect Your Family's Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets 7th Edition

YOU NEED THIS BOOK - NO LIE. This book allowed me to ask the right questions to find the right lawyer and know exactly what I needed to do to save my mother's life savings AFTER she went into a Nursing Home and BEFORE she went onto Medicaid. All I can tell you is I AM CHEAP but the cost of this book $47.00 was minimal next to the $60,000 yes, that's right, $60,000 that my Mother was able to save after learning what to do in this book. And you don't have to read it cover to cover. Just go right toward your scenario, take notes and follow what it tells you to do. Every time I think that I don't need this book anymore one of my friends comes to me with their elder parent on route to the Nursing Home and I simply loan them the book. I just ordered the updated edition due to all the changes in the 2013 health care laws. I highly recommend this book to anyone, for your loved one or for yourself. Hey, we all get old so we better prepare ! Don't wait till it's too late. And even if you have waited and it seems too late, this book will still be able to help you out big time ! Good luck !!

Bought it as a gift....info was not up to date!

Having recently had the "opportunity" of getting an elderly relative approved for Medicaid, I found this book helpful in understanding the concepts and details the legal beagle we hired was throwing at us with abandon - and less than stellar understanding of the state requirements himself. A good overview of the obscenity that is the way we pay for nursing home care in this benighted country.With some online digging, for both federal and your own state requirements, much of the information in this book is available for much less cost - the book is WAY overpriced. Nonetheless, the book ties together details in a way that certainly isn't blindingly obvious from state and federal Web sites. The punch line, though, is that you need to hire a local attorney.

This book contained a lot of good information for a general understanding of Medicaid. Lots of tips on how to protect your assets before becoming Medicaid eligible. Everyone should learn how to protect themselves from long term health care costs.It could have given more information about what to do if it's too late to protect assets. I would have appreciated case studies on oddball circumstances that aren't so cut and dry. There was a web based forum you could look at, but it still left a lot unanswered.

Thorough and well-documented. Contained helpful information on a subject that is very technical and constantly changing. A good reference book for the non-lawyer.

It`s not cheap but beats all other books I have read that had no detail. This has info by state and more specific than any other book. Pay the extra and buy this vs others with general info only! You`ll still need a lawyer but you`ll be better prepared!!

The rules change so quickly it is hard to make plans based on the book. It was a good source of information though.

You may have just saved our lived. The techniques you share in your book are a must-read for anyone with parents approaching retirement age or already retired parents, when nursing home is a part of the equation.