If your parent/grandparent is is a nursing home

[moriah]

25. This is why my grandmother, who recently passed....

.... had the house transferred into my mother's name immediately after my grandfather died in 1992. She went into a nursing home on Medicaid about three years ago because she was too fragile and yet insisted on trying to do yardwork.... too many broken bones. She could have broken something simply trying to get around the house, as her only fall wasn't when she decided to go try to mow the grass.

In a way, I hope that Mom does something similar here soon -- while I don't anticipate her going into nursing home care any time soon, she *does* have osteoporosis pretty bad. I'm not saying I want it to go in MY name -- I'd actually think my sister and brother-in-law would be better ones to have the title, since they live closer. And we are a close family -- there's no way we'd boot Mom out. Of course, Mom hasn't decided whether or not she's going to sell the house -- it is getting pretty old and needs some foundation work. But I don't want the family to lose that house just because she had to go into a home in 20 years or something, and if you transfer assets too soon they will consider the transfer void.