{"id":791498,"date":"2026-07-29T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791498\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:46:08","slug":"the-elder-care-costs-erasing-the-inheritance-you-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791498\/","title":{"rendered":"The elder care costs erasing the inheritance you expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"A6HY55C5G5DJRE4X3W5IJWEJ6Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/07\/22\/elder-care-costs-are-rising-depriving-families-their-inheritance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/07\/22\/elder-care-costs-are-rising-depriving-families-their-inheritance\/\">reporting<\/a> on how the price of care erodes what families leave behind started with a simple question: What does it actually cost to grow old in the United States?<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LM44K6XLNZDWFNUTVOAPZ35WM4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The typical American who died between 2006 and 2022 spent about $19,000 out of pocket on care in their final decade, a Washington Post analysis of federal data found. But that figure hides two things. It is an average: 1 in 6 ends up spending more than $50,000. More importantly, it excludes room and board at a facility, often the biggest cost, which can range from about $4,400 to more than $12,000 a month depending on location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our reporting on how the price of care erodes what families leave behind started with a simple question:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-791498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}