What is a Life Care Plan? The Life Care Plan is a roadmap to planning your long-term care, designed with your specific individual and family needs in mind. It is the beginning of a life-long relationship with the Life Care Planning Law Firm. With our knowledge and expertise, we will guide you through planning for the immediate future and the later stages of your life. The Life Care Plan includes your goals and concerns addressed in ideas and options suitable for your special needs and circumstances. The Life Care Plan is a planning process that will change over time as you and your circumstances change. Your Life Care Plan is a road map that allows you to achieve long-term care and asset protection goals. As changes occur along the way, our services are available to you to assist in adapting the plan to meet your changing needs. Life Care Planning Life Care Planning began as a concept within the field of litigation; it specified and addressed changes associated with long-term care health problems. The life care planning developed into a Life Care Plan to provide information regarding services related to long term care. The International Academy of Life Care Planners published the following definition of the life care plan document: A life care plan is a dynamic document based upon published standards, comprehensive assessment, date analysis and research, which provides an organized, concise plan for current and future needs, with associated costs for individuals who have experienced catastrophic injury or have chronic health care needs. A life care plan is a comprehensive method to evaluate and manage your life utilizing all necessary services and resources. For a successful Life Care Plan, we must have an understanding of your longterm health care goals and needs. Our practice includes knowledge about community resources and eligibility for these resources. Additionally, we are able to identify and develop alternatives for care consistent with needs. A Life Care Plan integrates these issues to meet your individual needs and goals. Planning Goals Like most people, you want to be able to plan for the future. To accomplish this, it is necessary to understand and anticipate potential future needs of long-term

care and associated costs. The Life Care Plan provides an organized avenue for this type of planning. We help you develop and implement the three principal goals of Life Care Planning: 1. Your Life Care Plan is focused first on your or your loved one's good health, safety, and well-being. We ensure that safe, quality care is a reality, whether that care is in home or at an alternate setting such as an assisted living facility or nursing home. This is the most important of all goals, for it goes to the very heart of your quality of life and safety. 2. We assist you in making decisions with your long-term care needs and goals in mind. We are your resource of experienced, professional, supportive, knowledgeable, and objective and independent advisors. 3. We help you find sources to pay for good long-term care. We work with you through the maze of solutions to pay for quality long-term care and protect your assets. Answer to Your Questions The Life Care Plan will help you answer many questions you may have: 

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What long-term care services are available to me? How can I get high quality care in my own home, in a residential community or assisted-living facility, in a child's home, or in a nursing home? How will financial and health care decisions be made for me if I cannot make them for myself? If I can't take care of myself, how will I make sure my spouse continues to have a good quality of life? Do I have to spend all of my money on the nursing home? How can I protect my assets to take care of my spouse, to ensure I get quality care in the nursing home and/or to leave to my children? On whom can I rely on to insure my care decisions are the most appropriate, informed choices possible?

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How do I assure my financial security as I get older? What public benefits am I entitled to, and how do I qualify for them? Should I rely on Medicaid or other government benefits to help cover my care costs? How do I apply for benefits? What kinds of insurance policies do I need? Should I buy long-term care insurance? Should I join a Medicare HMO? How and when should I distribute my assets? Can I save taxes and avoid probate? How do I provide for family members with special needs?

Your Life Care Plan is customized to your desires, needs and goals. Your Life Care Plan includes legal documents, consultations, and other necessary services to implement your "Roadmap for Life."

Resources for Elder Care Professionals Point Your Clients in the Right Direction As a professional who serves the elderly and their families, you may often interact with clients or patients who seem overwhelmed with the demands of an elderly loved one's care. Whether it's an elder caring for a disabled spouse or adult children worried about their aging parents, family caregivers may claim all is well when in truth, burnout is just around the corner. When you sense a caregiver needs help, there is more you can do. By recognizing the signs of family distress and understanding the options available, you can play a pivotal role in helping family members skip the long-term care learning curve and preserve quality of life for elders and their caregivers. Point your clients in the right direction with a referral to the Elder Law Attorney Richard M. Barron, the Barron Law Firm. We do more than just help elders qualify for public benefits and protect assets. Elder Law Attorney Richard M. Barron, the Barron Law Firm helps families respond to every challenge created by aging, long-term illness or disability, even the care giving burdens that most families bear in silence.

Resources for Families Are you overwhelmed with the demands of a loved one's care? Whether you are caring for your loved one in the home, arranging a move to an assisted living facility, scrambling to arrange nursing home care or seeking to insure appropriate, quality care in a facility, you know how emotionally and physically exhausting, difficult, time-consuming and isolating care giving can be. Imagine what life would be like if you had a team of advisors helping your loved one get the right care, helping you make difficult decisions, and working to preserve family resources. That's what life is like when you have a Life Care Plan. A Life Care Plan helps you respond to every challenge created by the long-term illness or disability of your loved one before, during, and after the onset of declining health. Customized for your loved one's situation, a Life Care Plan

bundles the right combination of estate planning, asset protection, legal services, public benefits qualification, care coordination, family education, nursing home advocacy and crisis intervention services into a convenient package. It's the ultimate in peace of mind for those who desire the best for their loved ones without overwhelming family members with the demands of care. A Revolutionary Approach to the Challenges Created by Long Life Life Care Planning is a holistic, elder-centered approach which assists families in responding to the challenges created by the long-term illness or disability. A Life Care Plan addresses needs and desires before, during, and after the onset of declining health. Life Care Planning helps people receive the assistance and care needed to maintain their desired quality of life. Families are enabled to access a wide variety of care options. They enjoy knowledgeable guidance from a compassionate team of advisors who help guide them in appropriate choices about every aspect of their loved one's well-being. Life Care Planning Law Firms rely on an inter-disciplinary team that works to identify present and potential future care needs, locate appropriate care, and ensure high-quality care. While we are qualified and available to assist families in crisis, Life Care Planning is an approach which involves pre-need planning and having on-going relationships with families. Life Care Planning Law Firms use the Elder Care Continuum model to help families understand the natural progression of aging and its impact on a loved one's health, mobility, housing, and financial resources. Your initial meeting with a Life Care Planning Attorney and team may focus on your loved one's position on each resource line of the Elder Care Continuum and to identify gaps in care. When your customized Life Care Plan is developed, it defines, organizes, prioritizes, and mobilizes every aspect of your loved one's care, to allow the high quality of life that everyone desires and deserves.