ALTCS (Arizona Long Term Care)

For those looking at nursing homes, residential care homes, or assisted living communities, questions will certainly come up about how to pay for things. It’s important to have a plan of action for how to pay for care. Here are some helpful tips on how to pay for senior care in Arizona, including a discussion of private pay vs. Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS).

It’s is important for Arizona seniors to consider that applying for ALTCS is only the first step in getting senior care from the state of Arizona. Senior Planning will help you work through the different types of senior care options for ALTCS options. After you qualify for ALTCS, your task then becomes finding ALTCS accepting assisted living communities or ALTCS accepting residential care homes. Or you may decide to use your ALTCS funds to try to find an in home caregiver. Regardless, this could be a long, complex, and drawn out process as you wait for the dominos to fall, one by one.