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 to 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, 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 coordinate 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 different 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 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.
Joyce M. Konczyk
JOYCE M. KONCZYK, LSW, joined Maser & Amundson, P.A. in 2009. As the Life Care Coordinator, Joyce assesses the needs of the client and family/caregiver, and collaboratively addresses how those needs can be
met most effectively.
Joyce has been a passionate advocate and resource specialist for elders and their families for over 25 years. She spent over 20 years as a social worker/case manager on the in-patient geriatric psychiatry unit at Fairview Hospital, now University of MN Hospital/Fairview.
Joyce’s committee work includes the Joint Public Policy Committee for Minneapolis and St. Paul Area Senior Workers, the Eden Prairie Professionals in Aging Media Committee and the 34th & 35th Annual Fall Aging Conference Program Committee. She is also on the Steering Committee for the Memory Care Professionals and serves as their List Serve Coordinator.
In addition, Joyce is pioneering the use of LIVE Internet webcasting in our community. She has archived a series of broadcasts of interest to seniors, their families and senior workers including: Advanced Planning, Health Care Directives/POA, Wills & Trusts, Medical Assistance, Veterans’ Benefits, and VA Aid & Attendance Benefits.
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?
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