Founder & President, Jennifer Thomas Marino
After 20 years as a Director of Human Resources & Office Management in Merchant Banking and Asset Management as well as in Heavy General Construction in NYC, Jennifer went on to raise a family and then return to the workforce after nearly a decade as the Business Manager of an Estate & Trust law firm on LI where she managed the Medicaid Division helping hundreds of families prepare to qualify and then ultimately be approved for Medicaid either for Long Term Home Health Care (also known as Community Medicaid) or for Nursing Home Care. With her entire career having been built on meeting, mentoring, and building long-term relationships with clients, employees, and colleagues — she is truly a people person.
“In 2020, I realized that the time had come to now prepare and apply for Community Medicaid for my mom who was 87. We were only months away from NYS changing the guidelines to qualify from a 30 day look-back to a 2.5 year look-back (postponed until April 2024 due to Covid-19). I started the process of applying in late July and we finally had an approval after going back and forth with additional requests of documentation from the Department of Social Services by October. Having done this for countless clients in the past (sometimes handling 25-30 active cases at a time) it seemed it would be an easy task this time around.”
However, when it’s for your own parent, not a client, you encounter a whole other realm of stress which can include resistance or denial about requiring the care you are seeking for them, push back or refusal to give up control of their finances and even sometimes tears when they come to terms that their quality of life and abilities are changing and sometimes rather quickly. Letting go and allowing others to manage their finances, daily living arrangements and care can be exceptionally overwhelming for the elderly and their family members as well.
“Upon encountering the other side of the approval process from Medicaid, which to most would seem daunting enough, and then having to now navigate the even more frustrating step(s) of dealing with the Managed Long Term Care Companies and Home Health Care Agencies, I realized the need to offer families another choice with regard to expediting their family member’s long term care needs whether it be in their own home, with a healthcare worker, or in a skilled nursing facility.”
At Elder Care Advisors of Long Island, LLC our sole focus is to assist you and your loved one in obtaining the care they so truly deserve in the most expedited fashion and for the most cost effective solution based on their socio-economic status. Typically, by working with our companies and strategic partners, your costs will be greatly reduced compared to those charged by traditional Elder Care Attorneys and Medicaid Lawyers.
Where necessary, an attorney, who is our strategic partner, or is on our Advisory Board, will be brought in to assist us in providing you with the resources and solutions that are required to make your journey along this path as expeditious and sound as possible.
Our goal is to give you the peace of mind that you need while getting the services your loved one(s) so deeply deserve. We look forward to speaking with you and answering any questions you may have. Everyone of our employees has been in this industry in one capacity or another and is empathetic to your situation.
We find a deep sense of fulfillment and accomplishment by helping each and every client/family member that we encounter. Be assured that your best interests are in our purview and we will help you in any way that we can to the best of our abilities!