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Long-Term Care Insurance Decisions
Decision Analysis, 2016The purchase of long-term care (LTC) insurance is a difficult lifetime choice made in the face of highly uncertain risks, including mortality, morbidity, timing and length of LTC, and portfolio investment risk. Many individuals do not know how to think about this decision properly and, in the face of too much anecdotal and too little objective ...
Samuel E. Bodily, Bryan Furman
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Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan
Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2005Abstract Japan has instituted one of the most comprehensive forms of long-term care insurance in the world. This chapter provides an overview description of this novel system of care. It also describes the historical and political forces that led to the adoption of this social program.
Martha N, Ozawa, Shingo, Nakayama
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1988
Paying for long-term care has become a major problem for older people, their families, and society and will be an increasingly serious problem in the future. With increased longevity, many more people face a period of serious disability in old age. Most are cared for informally by relatives and friends, albeit often at great emotional and sometimes ...
A M, Rivlin, J M, Wiener, D A, Spence
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Paying for long-term care has become a major problem for older people, their families, and society and will be an increasingly serious problem in the future. With increased longevity, many more people face a period of serious disability in old age. Most are cared for informally by relatives and friends, albeit often at great emotional and sometimes ...
A M, Rivlin, J M, Wiener, D A, Spence
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Long-Term Care Insurance and Medicaid
Health Affairs, 1994Depending on length-of-stay, somewhere between 29 percent and 38 percent of long-term care insurance purchasers who use nursing homes would qualify for Medicaid payments if they did not own a policy. This is equivalent to between 13 percent and 17 percent of all policyholders.
M A, Cohen, N, Kumar, S S, Wallack
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NATURAL HEDGING IN LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
ASTIN Bulletin, 2017AbstractWe investigate the application of natural hedging strategies for long-term care (LTC) insurers by diversifying both longevity and disability risks affecting LTC annuities. We propose two approaches to natural hedging: one built on a multivariate duration, the other on the Conditional Value-at-Risk minimization of the unexpected loss.
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New England Journal of Medicine, 1987
IS insurance for long-term care an idea whose time has come? Possibly. The recent explosion of publicity about insurance against catastrophic illness in the elderly, President Reagan's partial endorsement of Secretary Bowen's report favoring such insurance,1 , 2 and the striking number of related proposals, conferences, committees, bills and ...
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IS insurance for long-term care an idea whose time has come? Possibly. The recent explosion of publicity about insurance against catastrophic illness in the elderly, President Reagan's partial endorsement of Secretary Bowen's report favoring such insurance,1 , 2 and the striking number of related proposals, conferences, committees, bills and ...
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Long-Term Care Insurance Reform in Singapore
Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2021In recent years, governments in rapidly aging countries have looked toward the implementation of public insurance schemes to help cover the costs of care for their aging citizenry. This article presents a comprehensive overview of long-term care insurance policy in Singapore.
Joelle H. Fong, Allan Borowski
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A Primer on Long-Term Care Insurance
Professional Case Management, 2013Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) was part of the CLASS Act, established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Although this initiative is on hold, at least 70 percent of people over 65 will eventually need long-term care, either at home or in a nursing home, and that can be very expensive. This Editorial looks at the basics of LTCI.
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Long-term care insurance: Buy it or not!
Geriatric Nursing, 2005Subscribing to a long-term care (LTC) insurance plan for future health care and services is one of the most difficult decisions aging Americans need to make today. Although it may be difficult to predict who will need an LTC plan and for how long, various factors play an important role in determining whether to purchase LTC insurance.
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The Case for Long-Term Care Insurance
Health Affairs, 1983Prologue: Total national expenditures for nursing home care grew tenfold between 1965 and 1980. Now the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that such expenditures will more than quadr...
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