Here's the biggest bugaboo: Underestimating long-term care needs and overestimating what Medicare will cover.
Finally, they suggest linking long-term care and health insurance, an idea I raised last year.
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The solution must include an affordable way for Americans to prefund their long-term care costs.
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This population has very few financial resources to pay for their own long-term care.
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Medicaid provides critical services for acute care, therapy, long term care, and assistive supports.
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But while CLASS is fading away, the challenge of financing long-term care is not.
It shifted more long term care out of nursing homes to home and community-based care.
Proactive retirement planning also includes reviewing health care needs and the prospect of long-term care.
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Conventional long-term care makes the carers the stars of show, in the spotlight all the time.
This is more evidence that we need to prepare for long term care costs.
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OECD, Mandeep Bains and Howard Oxley, Ageing-related Spending Projections on Health and Long-term Care, 2003.
As life expectancy grows, disabilities are likely to increase, as will the need for long-term care.
Healthcare costs were the major concern, with 58% citing long-term care as a big worry.
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She also called for targeted personal tax cuts, such as for college tuition and long-term care.
The bottom line: Long-term care is not on the radar screen for either of these men.
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They'll also attempt to strip out sections of it, such as a new long-term care program.
Unfortunately, there may be less than meets the eye to both of these long-term care provisions.
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The Inter-American Development Bank has commissioned a study of long-term care facilities in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
When it comes to long-term care insurance, I am often asked the same question: Should I buy?
Nearly 50 million Americans rely on Medicaid for their health insurance, disability coverage and long-term care needs.
That is, I hope, a first step toward solving the difficult challenge of financing long-term care services.
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None of them have been a result of any interaction with a medical or long-term care facility.
Finally, Anne said it was important to improve consumer projections for buyers of private long-term care insurance.
Genworth managed to weasel out of inclusion in the ban with its long term care insurance product.
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That would be the point of buying the long term care insurance product in the first place.
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Nearly two months ago, Congress created a commission to recommend reforms to the current long-term care system.
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She said she had investigated a further three cases where people had been denied free long-term care.
It dwarfs the benefits provided by private long-term care insurance or what people pay out of pocket.
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Few are more vexed in ageing Britain than how to pay for long-term care for the elderly.
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