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.
Who needs long-term care?
By Staff Writer980,000 -- Number of nursing home residents over 65 who are women. Two-thirds -- Percentage of insurance benefits paid to women. 41% -- Percentage of benefits paid to single women, compared with 12 percent of benefits
August 04, 2009
Living in between: The emerging sandwich generationHelping one with homework and balancing the other's checkbook. Getting one to sports practices and the other to doctor appointments. Financial professionals tell me that these are challenges their clients face with mounting frequency.
August 01, 2009
Use LTCI facts to tell your storyTo help my sales effort, I want to add information that these policies work and claims are being paid. Can you provide information to accomplish that?
July 31, 2009
ACLI raises debate over proposed long term care legislationThe American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) is telling the federal government to stay out of the long term care insurance business. The organization insists...
July 31, 2009
Use LTCI facts to tell your storyTo help my sales effort, I want to add information that these policies work and claims are being paid. Can you provide information to accomplish that?
July 24, 2009
AALTCI Launches Online Long-Term Care Learning And Marketing CenterAALTCI) has launched the industry's most comprehensive online LTC Learning, Marketing & Sales Center as part of its Producer's Resource Center
July 24, 2009
Making Care Stretch FurtherConsultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. are suggesting ideas for helping the country cope with a growing shortage of primary care physicians.
July 14, 2009
Ten Medicaid misconceptions that could derail your clients' LTC plansAmi Setright Longstreet, an elder law attorney at Mackenzie Hughes LLP, recommends long-term care insurance to help cover the cost of a catastrophic illness. Not everyone is insurable, however; in that case, here are 10 misconceptions about how to