Long-Term Care Planning
Long-term care insurance news and analysis, including coverage of short-term care insurance, long-term care hybrid products, and other arrangements for paying for long-term and post-acute care.
The Affluentialist: Why The Affluent Need LTC Insurance
By Lewis SchiffSurprising economic times can reveal fault lines in previously solid assumptions. The conventional wisdom was that the wealthy would pay for long-term nursing care out-of-pocket...
April 09, 2009
Maine mulls over its LTC systemMaine's legislature is deciding whether to restructure the LTC system so that more people will have access to home-based care.
April 09, 2009
Maine mulls over its LTC systemMaine's legislature is deciding whether to restructure the LTC system so that more people will have access to home-based care.
April 08, 2009
Lincoln Adds LTD Family Care RiderAn insurer will be helping group long-term disability claimants who return to work pay for child care and elder care.
April 06, 2009
Milliman Updates GuidelinesA consulting firm has released a new edition of product that many insurers use to support utilization review and case management teams.
April 02, 2009
Long term care requires special planningAccording to the Center for Retirement Research, high-net-worth boomers have two options for planning long term care. Boomers can buy long term care insurance to...
April 02, 2009
You've gotta be kidding ...Sadly, no. We were hoping they have well-funded HSAs or high-deductible plans (say at about the $1 million level), but of course that's not the...
April 01, 2009
Explaining LTC need by the numbersQ: Convincing prospects of the need for LTC insurance is difficult. Can you provide some approaches to respond to this objection? A: There are several ways to overcome this objection. Kathleen Smith, an agent in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., shares her