Elder Care Management
I often hear from family members that the social worker at the nursing home facility or a family member themselves have offered to handle the MassHealth application process. This generally is not a good idea. MassHealth has a maze of complex rules and regulations that are almost impossible to understand and navigate –even for attorneys, unless they specialize in this field.
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If you were to become incapacitated and unable to make your medical decisions, who would make those decisions for you? If you haven’t executed a formal Health Care Proxy, in which you’ve named a trusted person to make health decisions on your behalf, then you forfeit your ability to be heard on such matters should you become incapacitated. It would then be necessary to petition the Probate Court to have you declared legally incompetent and to have a Guardian appointed to make your decisions. That court process takes time, is expensive, and the judge may not choose the person you would have chosen
