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In reply to the discussion: You better understand that Medicaid may take all of your inheritance [View all]dembotoz
(16,785 posts)if they can stay out of a nursing home for the allotted time, the house goes to the kids.
hell half my family had them.
when you do the estate questionnaire during probate there are a series of questions associated with this cause the state is first in line.
making end of life decisions for my mom as she was dying i asked with each one who pays for this.....
when she failed rehab i had her go back to the hospital for what was their hospice like thing cause it was medicare as opposed to the rehab center nursing home hospice which would have not been covered the same way. Felt ghoulish, but i did talk it over with her in one of our last fairly coherent conversations and it is what she would have wanted. The protection of the house as an asset was always foremost in her mind....depression era kid