Life Care Planning
Life Care Planning
A Leader in Life Care Planning
Life Care Planning is a holistic approach to personalized care, helping clients and their families ensure an enhanced quality of life and preserve the family’s wealth for future generations. This unique service includes care coordination, asset protection, benefits qualification, nursing home advocacy, and crisis intervention assistance.
Maser, Amundson & Price, P.A. provides this coordinated “concierge service” approach and is the only Minnesota firm that belongs to the Life Care Planning Law Firms Association (LCPLFA). Our Life Care Planning team includes compassionate, talented attorneys and a skilled and highly educated geriatric care manager, with connections to a number of community resources.
This multifaceted approach helps to alleviate the confusion and complicated coordination that can go along with caring for a loved one. A Life Care Plan helps elders get the care they need, and assists spouses, dependents, and family members in making important decisions and coordinating care.
How does it work?
Life Care Planning benefits individuals and families in many different states of transition, as services are tailored to a family’s needs at various times.
When a senior is living at home or with family, a Life Care coordinator can facilitate high quality care and serve as a family advocate. As a person’s condition requires more involved care, our attorneys work with the family and the individual to help design a transition plan to handle any housing, legal, or financial needs the family might have. When and if the need for intensified care arises, our coordinator can conduct regular visits to the loved one to monitor and evaluate the individual's needs and quality of care.
For more information, read the Why Life Care Planning? page or see the Life Care Planning overview PDF (25kb).
It’s never too late to plan for the future. Call today to set up a family consultation to discuss Life Care Planning: 952-925-4147.
To make an appointment or request more information, call: 952-925-4147.
Maser, Amundson & Price P.A. • 6601 Lyndale Avenue South • Suite 320 • Minneapolis, MN 55423
Joyce M. Konczyk
Joyce M. Konczyk, LSW, joined Maser, Amundson & Price P.A. in 2009. As their Life Care Coordinator, Joyce assists families in navigating the elder care maze. “Empowering elders and their loved ones to become more effective advocates is very gratifying.” Another concern dear to Joyce is the issue of legacy. “There is so much more than the estate and the money that we give and receive from generation to generation” that we need to have these important conversations with our families. Encouraging these conversations with loved ones about values and traditions is an important part of any future care plan for elders.
Joyce has been a passionate advocate and resource specialist for elders and their families for over 27 years. She spent 20 years as a social worker/case manager on on the in-patient geriatric psychiatry unit at Fairview Hospital, now University of MN Hospital at Fairview. She then opened a private geriatric care management practice, from which the firm recruited her.
Joyce’s committee work includes 5 years on the Steering Committee for the Memory Care Professionals, “sharing ideas, resource information and best practices since 2004. She has also served on the Joint Public Policy Committee for Minneapolis and St. Paul Area Senior Workers, the Eden Prairie Professionals in Aging Media Committee, the 34th and 35th Annual Fall Aging Conference Program Committee and the 2010 LCPLFA Annual Conference Program Committee.
When Joyce isn’t at work she can be found hiding out at home, knitting, baking, reading, gardening and communing with her adorable husband and cat.
When Do I Need An Elder Law Attorney?
Do you have a relative who is having difficulty living alone?
Are you overwhelmed by complicated medical or veterans’ benefit forms?
Do you have a loved one with a serious medical illness?
Are you concerned about your finances or care in the event of incapacity or death?
Are you a primary caregiver helping with bills, medical appointments, and other issues?
Still not sure you could benefit from an elder law attorney? Take the quiz. (PDF - 35kb)