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MOAA - Long Term Care Landing Page

Long Term Care Long Term Care Insurance For information about the MOAA-endorsed Individual Long Term Care Insurance Program, click this link or call (800) 698-7943 to speak to a licensed long term care consultant. Long Term Care Calculator This calculator can help you determine if you are financially prepared for this impending expense. More about long-term care: Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) Long-term care is the care you need if you can no longer perform everyday tasks by yourself due to chronic illness, injury, disability, or the aging process. Long-term care also includes supervision you might need due to a severe cognitive impairment (such as Alzheimer...

Where to Look for Long-term Care Insurance, ACL Administration for Community Living

Insurance specialist Most people buy long-term care insurance directly from an insurance agent, a financial planner, or a broker. Some important points: States regulate which companies can sell long-term care insurance States regulate the products that companies can sell There are more than 100 companies offering long-term care insurance nationally, but 15 to 20 insurers sell most policies State Partnership Programs Residents of some states may be able to find long-term care coverage through a State Partnership Program that links special Partnership-qualified (PQ) long-term policies provided by private insurance companies with Medicaid. These PQ policies: Help people purchase shorter term,...

Who Needs Long-Term Care Insurance?,

Long-term care insurance can be an emotionally charged topic. It’s not exactly something you want to talk about at the dinner table. After all, no one wants to think about themselves or their loved ones being incapable of living on their own. But if you want to make a smart financial decision and protect your nest egg, long-term care insurance is a must! To illustrate this, take Steve and Rachel, for example. They weren’t always smart with money, but they worked hard and built up a nest egg of $300,000. When Steve was 67 years old, he developed Alzheimer’s disease. At first, it wasn’t too bad. Rachel used some of their nest egg to hire a homecare specialist to help...

Long-Term Care Insurance: A New Perspective

The advice we provide has been remarkably consistent over the past 30-plus years. Occasionally, however, something changes that requires us to alter our advice. And that’s exactly what has happened regarding long-term care insurance. Skyrocketing LTC insurance costs in recent years — including increases of as much as 130 percent — have turned an already expensive product into, for many, a downright unaffordable one. This has created a massive quandary. After all, one of the biggest financial threats facing you is the cost of long-term care. Some 70 percent of Americans aged 65 and older are likely to need these services at some point, according to the Department of Health and Human Services...

5 Facts You Should Know About Long-Term Care Insurance

1. Traditional policies have fewer fans For years, long-term care insurance entailed paying an annual premium in return for financial assistance if you ever needed help with day-to-day activities such as bathing, dressing and eating meals. Typical terms today include a daily benefit of $160 for nursing home coverage, a waiting period of about three months before insurance kicks in and a maximum of three years’ worth of coverage. But these stand-alone LTC policies have had a troubled history of premium spikes and insurer losses, thanks in part to faulty forecasts by insurers of the amount of care they’d be on the hook for. Sales have fallen sharply. While more than 100 insurers sold policies...

Long Term Care Insurance , Advice on Care , Impartial Care Fees Consultant

Long Term Care Insurance Long term care can be very expensive and to avoid it consuming all of your hard earned savings you may want to look at long term care insurance. So what options are there? Long term care insurance broadly fall into two totally different types; - Pre funded long term care insurance to insure against the possibility of ever needing care in the future and Immediate Need products which are called Immediate Need Annuities or Care Fee Annuities. Pre funded Long Term Care Insurance The availability of true long term care insurance designed to insure against the possibility of ever needing care effectively ceased years ago due to escalating costs - both of the care itself...

What Is Long-Term Care?, National Institute on Aging

Long-term care is provided in different places by different caregivers, depending on a person's needs. Most long-term care is provided at home by unpaid family members and friends. It can also be given in a facility such as a nursing home or in the community, for example, in an adult day care center. The most common type of long-term care is personal care—help with everyday activities, also called "activities of daily living." These activities include bathing, dressing, grooming, using the toilet, eating, and moving around—for example, getting out of bed and into a chair. Long-term care also includes community services such as meals, adult day care, and transportation services. These...

Long-term care insurance, Ameriprise Financial

Long-term care insurance offers you flexibility in meeting your long-term needs. Learn more about what a long-term care insurance policy is here. Why long-term care coverage? The cost of long-term care can place a burden on you and your loved ones. It can quickly drain away assets meant for a secure retirement. Health care insurance programs such as Medicare and Medigap do not generally cover long-term care expenses, and Medicaid has a "spend down" element that may force you to liquidate assets to qualify. See longtermcare.gov for additional information. Relying on loved ones can have an emotional and financial impact. Long-term or extended care planning with Ameriprise An Ameriprise...

Long-Term Care Insurance: What to Consider

A significant amount of your retirement savings will likely go toward just keeping you healthy enough to enjoy retirement. According to the Employee Benefit Retirement Institute, a man needs $116,000 while a woman needs $131,000 to cover 90% of their health care costs in retirement. Long-term care, such as treatment in a nursing or assisted living facility, is one of the most expensive health care expenses retirees face. The federal government estimates that nearly 70% of Americans who reach age 65 will likely need long-term care at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, long-term nursing home or home care is not covered by Medicare. It only pays for short stays in facilities to help...

The RIGHT Way to Approach Long-Term Care Insurance - Assisted Living Services, Inc.

The RIGHT Way to Approach Long-Term Care Insurance Assisted Living Services is excited to have a guest blog on long-term care insurance from Connecticut Long Term Care Solutions Group. Many thanks to David Katz and Curtis Gunn for providing this valuable information on long-term care insurance. Six steps to the safe, affordable long-term care insurance you need 1. Consider long-term care insurance (LTCI) when still fairly young, as you approach your 50s. Why? Rates are lower then, and you’re more likely to be healthy enough to be insurable. And over your lifetime, premiums payments will be most cost effective. The younger you are the less costly it will be over all; with more years paying...