David Bakke is a contributor for Money Crashers and writes about money management tips related to insurance, healthcare, investing, long term care costs, and retirement. Chris Orestis, CEO of Life Care Funding contributed to this article. The cost of long term care nowadays is staggering. The average annual cost of a nursing home is $63,145, a home health aide is $40,040, and homemaker services are $38,896. Partner all that with the fact that many of the government programs we rely on to subsidize these costs are…