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.
Discussing the unthinkable: Boomers and LTC
By Philip E. HarrimanBoomers may not think they need LTCI, but chances are they will.
July 31, 2011
Partnership Smartnership: How (and Why) to Avoid Partnership LTCII'll be blunt: I don't understand advisors' continued glorification of Partnership LTCI plans.
July 31, 2011
A claim is filed. Now what?Unfortunately, I just had a personal experience with a home health-care claim for my mother, a widow aged 90. To complicate the situation, I live 1,000 miles away from my hometown, where my mother still resides.
July 28, 2011
Should your client go on Medicaid?According to one expert on elder care, advising aging clients to get rid of all their assets so they can qualify for Medicaid is a bad idea.
July 28, 2011
Should your client go on Medicaid?According to one expert on elder care, advising aging clients to get rid of all their assets so they can qualify for Medicaid is a bad idea.
July 27, 2011
From Barney Fife to Steve AustinA wise person (or a plain old wise guy -- depending on your definition) once opined that insanity is when you endlessly repeat the same behavior, yet expect different results.
July 27, 2011
"Rationing panels" the latest scare tacticThe Independent Payment Advisory Board is opposed by Republicans and the health-care industry who contend it would ration care.
July 27, 2011
From Barney Fife to Steve AustinA wise person (or a plain old wise guy -- depending on your definition) once opined that insanity is when you endlessly repeat the same behavior, yet expect different results.