OCR Text |
Show NURSING HOME CARE DEFINED Financing nursing home care is naturally of great concern to senior citizens and their families. There are two types of nursing home care in Utah: skilled for chronic to terminal ter-minal Illness which requires intensive medical and nursing nurs-ing treatment; and Intermediate Interme-diate for persons with medical medi-cal problems who require more assistance thanahome setting can provide. Medicare will only pay for Skilled nursing home care and only for a limited time. ' Medicaid will pay for either eith-er skilled or intermediate nursing home care if a person per-son is low income and has limited assets. Nursing home insurance policies are only available to cover skilled nursing , home care and they usually I have limitations on the amounts they will pay. All persons need to be fully informed in-formed before theypurchase these policies. To become informed contact the Utah Insurance In-surance Department at 326 South Fifth East in Salt Lake City, or phone: 533-7918. |