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.
It's a family affair: Selling LTCI to parents and adult children
By Ed McCarthy, CFP, RICPBy getting a prospect's adult children involved in the long term care insurance sales process, you can help clarify some of the lingering objections to coverage.
April 29, 2010
Long term care update: Stay home and saveThe cost of receiving long term care at home has risen much more slowly over the past five years than the cost of receiving care at a nursing home or assisted-living facility.
April 28, 2010
Genworth: Nursing Home Costs Hit $75,190The cost of home care appears to be increasing far less rapidly than the cost of nursing home care, according to Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE:GNW).
April 28, 2010
HHS Inspector General: The Quality Police Are ComingBecause of the new emphasis on linking health care provider compensation to quality, compliance teams will have to think more about quality measurement.
April 28, 2010
Genworth: Nursing Home Costs Hit $75,190The cost of home care appears to be increasing far less rapidly than the cost of nursing home care, according to Genworth Financial Inc. (NYSE:GNW).
April 26, 2010
Older Californians Not Ready For LTC: StudyFew Californians are prepared for the cost of long term care.
April 23, 2010
PPACA: Facility Executives Are NervousMany health care facility executives who have a strong opinion about the new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act think PPACA will hurt health care facilities.
April 21, 2010
Advance directives needed and heededA new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that a large number of seniors will reach a point where they will be unable to make their own healthcare decisions.