The Law Office of Ted Wolfendale In Fort Myers, Florida Our medicaid lawyer specializes in helping seniors navigate the legal challenges associated with aging.  

The great news for seniors today is that as a result of healthier lifestyles and vast improvements in medical care or medicaid planning, average life expectancy in the United States is at an all-time high. However, as seniors live longer, there is a much higher chance that they will need some form of long-term care at some point in their lives.

Sadly, such long-term care is becoming ever more expensive.  Recent studies have indicated that as many as two-thirds of families will exhaust their retirement savings within the first year or two of moving into a nursing home. Unfortunately, most private health insurance plans and Medicare don’t cover long-term care costs.

That’s why the Law Office of Ted Wolfendale believe that Long Term Care planning is essential for the members of our elder community.  By trying predict and prepare for the potential medical needs of aging, we can advise and assist clients in making sure they will have the financial wherewithal to receive exactly the kind of long term care they need and desire if that eventuality should occur. 

Part of our Long Term Planning Strategy may include Elder Care Asset Protection Planning or Medicaid planning.  As its name implies, it is a legal strategy designed to protect your assets in case someone in your family needs the services of a skilled nursing facility or other intensive long term care.  The goal is to enable eligibility for certain government need based programs offered by Medicaid and  the Veteran’s Administration  while preventing the need to terminally deplete their assets to in order to receive financial assistance for their long term care needs.

Once implemented, this type of planning enables our clientele to keep the assets they spent a lifetime attaining yet still be eligible to receive assistance from the government for the care that they need.

Let us create a comprehensive legal plan to protect  your assets and ensure that you can rest secure in the knowledge that your assets will be protected and your long-term medical needs will be provided for.