April The Long Term Care Review by Duane Lipham, CLTC Archives

Start Planning For Long-Term Care In Your Fifties

I am often asked about which age is the best to begin seriously thinking about applying for long-term care insurance. Here are the resuts of a recent study by the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, a national industry trade organization that tracks data on this subject from many large insurers:
“Individuals mistakenly think long-term care […]

The Facts About Long-Term Care Insurance

There are many opinions about long-term care insurance mainly based on anecdotal evidence. Once a year the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance publishes a LTCI Sourcebook that cuts through the fog of opinion and helps establish the facts instead.
The 2009 version of this publication just became available and here are the results of […]

Most Retirees Unprepared For Cost Of Long-Term Care

Now that the economic crisis has taken a severe toll on the retirement portfolios of many seniors it is becoming increasingly clear that a large number of them are woefully unprepared for the rising costs of long-term care.
In addition, many are just simply in denial mode and wish not to even consider that they will […]