When Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2023 after a 2022 diagnosis of aphasia, his family faced the need to reassess how to best care for him. This past August, his wife, Emma Heming Willis, revealed that Bruce had moved into a nearby one-story home staffed with full-time caregivers, creating...
Category: MassHealth Planning
Multigenerational Housing: Options and Benefits for Seniors
According to Pew Research, 18 percent of Americans are 65 and older, and more than one in five Americans will be in this age range by 2054.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that older adults are at greater risk for social isolation and warns that loneliness...
Don’t Rely on Medicare or MassHealth for your Long-Term Care
Americans are living longer than ever, and this trend is expected to continue. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans aged 100 and older is expected to quadruple over the next 30 years, from an estimated 101,000 in 2024 to about 422,000 in 2054.
With this increase...
WHAT HAPPENS TO A MASSHEALTH RECIPIENT IF THE COMMUNITY SPOUSE DIES FIRST?
When one spouse is in a nursing home and applying for MassHealth, planning has to take into account the possibility that the spouse who is not in the nursing home (called the “community spouse”) may pass away first. This is because the community spouse’s death may make the spouse in the nursing...