Florida Long-Term Care
The Smart Way to Pay forLong-Term Care
Before you spend your savings, find out what benefits, tax savings, insurance, and legal protections may be available to help pay for care.
When someone you love needs long-term care, it is easy to assume the choices are simple: pay the bill yourself until the money is gone, or somehow qualify for Medicaid. The reality can be very different. Medicaid, PACE, veterans benefits, long-term-care insurance, tax deductions, spousal protections, and legal planning can all affect how much a family ultimately has to pay.
About three minutes · Eight questions · No contact information required
Three decades helping families work out how to pay for long-term care, and the author of Florida Long-Term Care and Medicaid.
A word from Carl
Let’s look at the whole picture.
I’m Carl Zacharia. I’ve spent about thirty years helping families work out how to pay for long-term care, and I wrote Florida Long-Term Care and Medicaid because the same questions kept coming up. I’ll ask a few simple questions so I can show you which payment options and planning issues may deserve your attention.
One thing first, because it matters: I’m a lawyer, but I’m not your lawyer. What follows is educational guidance only. It doesn’t determine eligibility for anything, and it doesn’t make you a client of my firm.
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This is general educational information, not legal advice. Using this tool and submitting a form do not create an attorney-client relationship, and nothing here determines whether anyone qualifies for Medicaid, veterans benefits, PACE, a tax deduction, or insurance coverage. Carl B. Zacharia is the founding partner of Zacharia Frey PLLC and a member of The Florida Bar. He is speaking here as an educator, not as your lawyer: this page gives general information, not legal advice about your situation, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship.