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A Massachusetts judge has denied a motion to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity in the killings of her three young children. Clancy, a former nurse charged with strangling her two older children and infant son at her Duxbury home in January 2023, is awaiting trial. The ruling keeps the case moving toward a jury decision on her mental state rather than resolving it early.

A woman entered a nursing home at 84 and died there five years later, at 89. After her death, the state filed an estate recovery claim of $412,000 for her care — an amount larger than the value of her house. Her children inherited nothing, and even the home's proceeds went to the state, highlighting how Medicaid estate recovery can wipe out family inheritances.

A man seeking Medicaid coverage for nursing home care was told to surrender his life insurance policy before his care could be paid for. The policy has a face value of $1,600, just $100 above the asset limit Medicaid allows, because the program counts the cash value of whole life policies rather than the death benefit. Critics say the rule punishes modest savings and forces people to give up coverage that cost years of premiums.

A couple married for 54 years entered the same nursing home four months apart. Because no spouse remained living at home, Medicaid's spousal impoverishment protections no longer applied, leaving the pair with only $3,000 between them. The story is drawing attention to how rules designed to protect a healthy spouse at home fail couples when both partners need long-term care.

A husband and wife were found dead at a nursing home in Erie County, Ohio, in what authorities describe as an apparent murder-suicide. Investigators have not released further details about how the deaths occurred or the couple's identities, and the case remains under investigation.

A family says a state placed a $61,000 claim against a father's house after his death, matching dollar for dollar the eight months of Medicaid-funded nursing home care he received before dying. The case highlights the practice of Medicaid estate recovery, in which states seek reimbursement from deceased beneficiaries' estates, a policy many families only discover after a death.

Two people have died in what authorities describe as an apparent murder-suicide at a nursing home, according to an update from local police. Officials have not released the names of the deceased or details on how the incident unfolded. Investigators are working to establish the circumstances, and the facility has not been publicly identified. Further information is expected as the investigation proceeds.

A 79-year-old man remarried against his children's wishes. Eighteen months later his new wife required nursing home care, and Medicaid rules treated the couple's finances as pooled, counting his $340,000 in savings alongside hers. Under spousal impoverishment protections he was allowed to keep roughly half of the combined assets, a costly outcome financial commentators warn can follow late-life remarriage.

Health care journalists are highlighting gaps in nursing home oversight, warning that weak regulatory enforcement leaves elderly residents exposed to neglect and unsafe conditions. The reporting underscores concern among advocates and journalists that inspection and enforcement systems are failing to keep pace with problems in long-term care facilities, prompting calls for stronger scrutiny of how these homes are monitored.