Being diagnosed with dementia can cost you over $750,000 according to a recent USA Today article<\/a>. \u00a0Think about your situation, if you were diagnosed with dementia, do you have $750,000 worth of assets ready to pay for long-term care costs?<\/p>\n The difficulty with dementia is not just the emotional cost of watching the person you have known all your life become someone different, but also the financial cost. Just because a person\u2019s brain function weakens doesn\u2019t mean a person\u2019s overall health weakens. There have been plenty of cases where a person will live as many as eight years or more after first being diagnosed with dementia or some related disorder like Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n Why does that matter? As dementia progresses in a person, he or she will require more and more care that a nursing home can provide. And it could get to a point where that care need is for virtually everything, which (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being diagnosed with dementia can cost you over $750,000 according to a recent USA Today article. \u00a0Think about your situation, if you were diagnosed with dementia, do you have $750,000 worth of assets ready to pay for long-term care costs?…<\/span><\/p>\n