Before you decide which is best for you you will need to know what is the difference between long term care insurance and medicaid. Once you have read this article you will be able to make a well informed choice as to which is the best for you and your family.

Long term care insurance is a great choice if you have a longstanding illness and need someone to take care of you on a long term basis, these kind of illnesses and ailments could include M. S and similar illnesses, and those that have been disabled either from birth or since and will not get better either at all or for a long period of time.

Anyone with a long standing illness or disability may need some care during the day that your family cannot provide for them. With long term care insurance, the cost of someone coming in on a daily basis to ensure you are ok and also to administer and medicines you may need as well as helping you take care of yourself is covered.

Some people wish to stay in their home but also want to get out and about, as well as giving any other family members a break from caring for them. A good option for this is to have day care, which means you will be taken to a day care clinic every day, where they will look after you, make sure you are fed and looked after as well as finding activities around your needs.

If the care required is round the clock, you will find that long term care insurance will cover the cost and you will have a choice of residential homes to choose from. This means that you can find one that will best suit your needs. Having someone available at all hours will mean that you do not have to wait for day staff to arrive and if any medical treatment is needed most of this can be done within the residential home.

Most people at some point in their lives, 50% in fact will need some kind of long term care. You may not wish to be a burden on family members and even if they are willing to help it is not always the best option if there is medical intervention needed that they cannot do themselves. Also one other thing you need to know is that medicaid will not fund long term healthcare, and anything they do give you will be taken back once you no longer require the care or pass away, they can also sell your home to recover costs if need be or get it from family members.

If you are unable to financially cover the care that you or a family member need then the government offers a scheme called medicaid. They do only give limited help which is why if possible long term care insurance is the better option.

Medicaid tends not to fund home care which could mean that to get the care you need you will have to go into a residential home, and the choices of which one you go into will be limited.

The help medicaid give, if any at all is mainly dependent on the amount of money you have in savings, and also the savings of your partner. The usual amount of savings you cannot exceed to be eligible for care is $2000. It has been known for people to give money away to others to be able to get the care they need without having to pay for it, however the government have become aware of this and will check into your financial in-goings and outgoings before you are allowed the help and if is found that you have been dishonest you could be fined for fraud.

Before making your choice you will need to think about the good and bad points to both ways of funding your long term care, as you will never know no matter how healthy you are now what could happen in the future. You will have the peace of mind that your family will not have to pay the care you have received and know that your assets will go to whom it is you wish them to not to the government.

Before you go out and buy a policy go to Long Term Care Insurance, ask questions and request a long term care insurance quote. We represent 20 of the top LTCi providers. This gives you tremendous options.