Advance Directive for Living with Dementia
An Advance Directive for Living with Dementia can help you, loved ones, and caregivers understand what your wishes and preferences are about your care during the long course of illness and when you can’t speak for yourself. It includes your preferences about who you'd like to provide your personal care, where you'd want to live if you no longer could stay safely at home, how to pay for care, what to do if you become combative, future relationships for you and your spouse/partner, and when to stop driving. #9600EN
Advance Directive for Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED Directive)
Use this self-help form to fill out a VSED Directive. It expresses your end-of-life wishes if dementia or other progressive illnesses cause you to lose the ability to make your own health care decisions. This VSED Directive can be used anywhere in the United States. #9615EN
Apple Health (Medicaid): If You Disagree with your Apple Health Managed Care Plan or Have a Complaint
Your rights and things you can do if you have any issues with your Apple Health Managed Care Plan. #5113EN
Applying for Medicaid for Long-Term Care
People who need help paying for long-term services and supports (LTSS) often wonder when they should file an application for assistance from the Home and Community Services Division (HCS) of the Department of Social and Health Services. This pamphlet discusses the timing of the application process. #5106EN
Community Options Program Entry System Waiver (COPES)
COPES is a program designed to help people who, without COPES, would need to be in nursing homes. It pays for personal care and other services for people in their own homes and also for care in adult family homes, adult residential care facilities, and assisted living facilities. #5102EN
Estate recovery for long-term care services paid for by the State
If the state pays for your long-term care services, then the state can sometimes collect some of the things you own when you die to get back some or all of what it paid for. Read this to learn more. #5172EN
Health Care Directive (or Living Will)
A Health Care Directive (also called a Living Will) lets you state what kind of medical treatments you do or do not wish to have if you are terminally ill or permanently unconscious and cannot make decisions for yourself. It also lets you write down your health care values. You can fill out your Health Care Directive here on Washington Forms Online, or download a printable packet. #9607EN
Medicaid Standards Chart
The table shows Medicaid eligibility and other standards in effect as of 01/01/2025. #5100EN
Mental Health Advance Directive
Learn how an advance directive for mental health treatment works. Fill it out on Washington Forms Online or download a printable packet. #9610EN
My long-term care facility wants to evict me
Read this to learn what your rights are when the long-term care facility you are living in doesn't want you to live there anymore. #5602EN
Special Needs Trusts and ABLE Accounts
If you get SSI or Medicaid and then receive a lot of extra money that might otherwise make you ineligible, read this to learn what options you might have to keep your benefits. #7501EN
Washington Apple Health Income and Resource Standards
Income standards for Apple Health (Medicaid), Medicare Savings, Medically-Needy and SSI.
What can I buy and still be eligible for SSI and/or Medicaid?
To qualify for SSI or Medicaid, you can only have a certain amount of money or property (“resources”). Read this to learn how you can buy certain things to get to an amount where you qualify. #5107EN
Mental Health Advance Directive
Learn how an advance directive for mental health treatment works. Fill it out on Washington Forms Online or download a printable packet. #9610EN
Applying for Medicaid for Long-Term Care
People who need help paying for long-term services and supports (LTSS) often wonder when they should file an application for assistance from the Home and Community Services Division (HCS) of the Department of Social and Health Services. This pamphlet discusses the timing of the application process. #5106EN
Community First Choice Program (CFC)
CFC is a Medicaid program offering personal care and other services. The program was established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under 1915(k) of the Social Security Act and is administered by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS). #5103EN
Estate recovery for long-term care services paid for by the State
If the state pays for your long-term care services, then the state can sometimes collect some of the things you own when you die to get back some or all of what it paid for. Read this to learn more. #5172EN
Tailored Supports for Older Adults (TSOA) and Medicaid Alternative Care (MAC) programs
TSOA and MAC are Medicaid programs. TSOA and MAC provide free services to unpaid caregivers who are taking care of family members who are at least 55 years old. #5171EN
Understanding Your CARE Tool Assessment
This explains how to read the Comprehensive Assessment Reporting Evaluation (CARE) document called Assessment Details. If you have not had an assessment yet this booklet will give you an idea about what to expect. During your assessment a case manager asks you questions about the help you need. That information is used to determine what services you can receive. This includes personal care hours and nursing services. #5420EN
Advance Directive for Living with Dementia
An Advance Directive for Living with Dementia can help you, loved ones, and caregivers understand what your wishes and preferences are about your care during the long course of illness and when you can’t speak for yourself. It includes your preferences about who you'd like to provide your personal care, where you'd want to live if you no longer could stay safely at home, how to pay for care, what to do if you become combative, future relationships for you and your spouse/partner, and when to stop driving. #9600EN
Advance Directive for Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED Directive)
Use this self-help form to fill out a VSED Directive. It expresses your end-of-life wishes if dementia or other progressive illnesses cause you to lose the ability to make your own health care decisions. This VSED Directive can be used anywhere in the United States. #9615EN
Health Care Directive (or Living Will)
A Health Care Directive (also called a Living Will) lets you state what kind of medical treatments you do or do not wish to have if you are terminally ill or permanently unconscious and cannot make decisions for yourself. It also lets you write down your health care values. You can fill out your Health Care Directive here on Washington Forms Online, or download a printable packet. #9607EN
Mental Health Advance Directive
Learn how an advance directive for mental health treatment works. Fill it out on Washington Forms Online or download a printable packet. #9610EN
Apple Health (Medicaid): If You Disagree with your Apple Health Managed Care Plan or Have a Complaint
Your rights and things you can do if you have any issues with your Apple Health Managed Care Plan. #5113EN
Billing and Medicaid (Apple Health)
Questions and answers about billing for services Medicaid covers. Read this if your medical provider didn't bill Medicaid for services when you think it should have. Includes sample letters you can use to try to resolve the situation. #5112EN
Medically Needy "spenddown" program
The Medically-Needy (MN) program helps pay medical expenses for certain people who are 65 or older, and for certain younger disabled people. It is a program for people who do not get Medicaid coverage that comes with a cash grant from Supplemental Security Income (SSI), General Assistance, or another public assistance program. #5104EN
Washington Apple Health Income and Resource Standards
Income standards for Apple Health (Medicaid), Medicare Savings, Medically-Needy and SSI.
Medicare and Hospital Discharges
If you get Medicare, and have to get inpatient hospital care, read this to learn about your rights when the hospital decides it is time to discharge you. #5212EN
Medicare Savings Programs: Help paying for Medicare costs
Learn about help with Medicare costs that you might be eligible for. #5210EN
Estate recovery for long-term care services paid for by the State
If the state pays for your long-term care services, then the state can sometimes collect some of the things you own when you die to get back some or all of what it paid for. Read this to learn more. #5172EN
Medicaid for nursing home care
Find out how to qualify for Medicaid if you need to move to or currently live in a nursing home. #5170EN
My long-term care facility wants to evict me
Read this to learn what your rights are when the long-term care facility you are living in doesn't want you to live there anymore. #5602EN
Applying for Medicaid for Long-Term Care
People who need help paying for long-term services and supports (LTSS) often wonder when they should file an application for assistance from the Home and Community Services Division (HCS) of the Department of Social and Health Services. This pamphlet discusses the timing of the application process. #5106EN