Episode 70: The Perils of Paying Long-Term Care Expenses from Your Tax-Deferred Bucket with David McKnight

If you’re between the ages of 50 and 65, there is a good chance that you have at least one parent or in-law that is going through a long-term care event. This may lead you to wonder how you are going to deal with your own long-term care events in the future. The government may be picking up the tab, but people in Medicaid-funded long-term care facilities tend not to live as long as at other facilities. A lot of people in that age range have a false sense of security around how they are going to finance their long-term care events, assuming they will be able to pay for everything out of their IRA or 401(k). The average stay in an assisted living facility is just over two years, but research shows that people receive some form of long-term care in their home for an average of three to six months. Sixty percent of those people in the assisted living facility will go on to spend up to an additional two years in a nursing home. When you add up the averages, you can expect to be in some sort...