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.
Long-term care's rallying cry: Get over it!
By Daniel WilliamsIt's 75 degrees under a cloudless sky and a hot desert wind rips a man's hat from his head outside the Tropicana Hotel before slapping it against a taxi cab windshield.
April 29, 2011
Starting the ‘Conversation’ With Aged Parents: A Financial Geriatric TipTips on how to have the difficult 'conversation' with aged parents on changes in health that will affect their lifestyle, driving, personal appearance, managing finances and more.
April 27, 2011
One-quarter of Medicare funds spent on the dyingEach year, Medicare spends about a quarter of its budget on the treatment of terminally ill patients.
April 27, 2011
Medicare update: ACOs to coordinate careAs part of the new health care law, Medicare beneficiaries may soon benefit from better coordination of care across different health care settings, such as doctor's offices, hospitals and long-term care facilities.
April 27, 2011
Macy's floats an old ideaIn 1837, Rowland H. Macy left his comfortable Nantucket, Mass., home to sail the Atlantic with whale hunters. He returned home in 1841 and opened a needle and thread shop and a dry goods store that both quickly went bankrupt.
April 27, 2011
Medicare update: ACOs to coordinate careAs part of the new health care law, Medicare beneficiaries may soon benefit from better coordination of care across different health care settings, such as doctor's offices, hospitals and long-term care facilities.
April 26, 2011
ACOs: Will They Block Innovation?The head of a medical technology group is asking whether the new accountable care organizations will chill medical innovation by promoting a "cheapest is best" approach to health care.
April 26, 2011
ACOs: Will They Block Innovation?The head of a medical technology group is asking whether the new accountable care organizations will chill medical innovation by promoting a "cheapest is best" approach to health care.