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What is an adult living care facility?

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What is an adult living care facility?

An adult living care facility, otherwise known as an assisted living facility, is a residential care facility that provides support people who can’t safely live by themselves but who don’t need skilled medical services 24 hours a day, and thus don’t need to be in a nursing home, where more intensive care is provided.

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Applicants for Medicaid long-term care benefits must be assessed to determine the "level of care" they require.

To what extent will Medicare cover long-term care?

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The good news is that while Medicare’s role in long-term care is complicated, you can head off much of the headache that comes with the financial burden of long-term care by understanding some basic concepts.