One Question Cape Families Eventually Face

🏠 If Someone Needs Nursing Home Care… What Happens to the House?

It’s a question that comes up on the Cape more often than people expect.

When long-term care enters the picture, families often start hearing about something called the MassHealth five-year lookback rule — usually through neighbors, friends, or bits of advice that circulate around town.

The problem is, most people only know fragments of the story.

So we sat down in Hyannis with elder law attorney Jay Marsden to walk through how the rule actually works in Massachusetts.

⚠️ The part many Cape homeowners misunderstand

Most people think the house is automatically taken.

That’s not actually how it works.

▶ Watch the conversation with Jay Marsden