Medicare does not pay most costs of nursing home care. But there are alternative ways to pay much of these expenses, which reached a median of $105,850 annually in 2020 for a private room, according to a survey by Genworth, a provider of long-term care insurance. A third of people who are 65 in 2021... John Rossheim writes for NerdWallet.
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