Long-Term Care Planning
Long-Term Care Planning in Park City
Planning for long-term care involves more than estimating costs. It means considering the kind of care you would want, who could help make decisions, what resources may be available, and how those pieces fit together. Dale Law Group, PLLC offers long-term care planning and Medicaid planning for people in Park City and throughout Tennessee.
Start with the care decision
Begin by comparing realistic care preferences rather than assuming one setting will suit every future need. Consider what support you would want at home, what circumstances might lead you to consider another setting, and which people you would want involved in those discussions.
A useful first step is a one-page care-preference summary. Note your preferred kinds of support, people to consult, concerns about changing needs, and questions that still need answers. Treat it as a planning aid—not a substitute for a health-care directive or a care assessment.
Match decision authority to the task
Review who could act if you needed help with health-care or financial decisions. A health-care directive addresses an agent or alternate and health-care preferences. A power of attorney authorizes another person to act on your behalf, but its scope, duration, and limits matter. A trustee, an agent, and a court-appointed guardian or conservator have distinct roles; do not assume one role grants another’s authority.
Tennessee’s Advance Directive for Health Care form includes directions about signing and sharing copies. Discuss how your existing documents work together and whether they reflect your current choices. This page does not prescribe execution steps.
Build a practical information checklist
Gather what you know about existing insurance, income and assets, recurring care costs, and the people who could assist with coordination. Identify missing or uncertain information instead of relying on estimates. Keep health-care preferences and financial information organized separately, and note who should be able to find each record.
Bring questions about how care preferences, financial decision-making documents, and potential funding sources interact. This makes it easier to identify planning gaps before a care decision becomes urgent.
Consider TennCare conditionally
TennCare’s CHOICES program provides long-term services and supports. Medical and financial requirements both apply, so it should be treated as a program to investigate—not as promised funding or an assumed fit. Whether it may be relevant depends on the individual circumstances and applicable requirements.
Ask what information would be needed to explore the program, how a possible application relates to current care planning, and what other resources should be considered. Long-term care planning can address these questions without assuming a particular outcome.
Plan from Park City, Lincoln County
Park City is an unincorporated Census-designated place in Lincoln County, not a separate city government. Dale Law Group’s office is in Murfreesboro; no additional Park City office is listed. The firm serves clients in Tennessee, and its office location should not be mistaken for a local Park City office.
For this planning topic, the central work is coordinating preferences, decision authority, and financial information. If a separate matter later raises a court or land-record question, Lincoln County office directories can help identify contacts, but a directory does not determine the correct procedure or whether a proceeding is necessary.
Questions to bring to the discussion
Does CHOICES guarantee that long-term care will be paid for?
No. CHOICES is a Tennessee long-term-services-and-supports program with both medical and financial requirements. Do not treat it as guaranteed funding or assume eligibility without assessing the applicable requirements.
Is a power of attorney the same as a health-care directive?
No. A power of attorney authorizes an agent to act within the document’s scope and limits. Tennessee’s health-care directive form addresses an agent or alternate and health-care preferences. Review the documents and roles separately.
Discuss your next step with Dale Law Group
Begin with a brief, non-confidential overview. The firm will discuss your needs and appointment arrangements.
General information, not advice for a particular situation. Sending an inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship.