Medicaid will take care of it but they have to use up their own assets first. Goodbye, family homestead!

In the US, if you either (a) have bright kids that get into a good (i. e. expensive) college, or (b) live to be old, and are either physically or mentally unable to care for yourself in your later years, you had better be either very poor or very affluent. The system is set up to shaft the middle class. And being very poor has numerous other disadvantages.

Peter