My husband and I have been thinking about getting a long-term care insurance policy, but we hate the idea of paying expensive monthly premiums for a policy we may never use. Is long-term care ...

Here are financial experts' tips and alternative strategies for getting long-term care insurance in your 70s.

Long-term care insurance (LTC), unlike most health insurance plans, pays for the cost of your health when you need permanent help with activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, eating, etc).

Did you know that a private room in a nursing home costs, on average, about $9,800 per month in 2024? And, while home health aides cost less on average, the nearly $6,000 per month price tag can still ...

Over half of seniors will need help with eating, getting dressed or other basic activities at some point, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the cost of help continues ...

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Consumers who purchased long-term care insurance (LTC) policies several years ago have discovered that they did not have any protection from increases in premiums. State insurance departments in ...

Cognitively impaired individuals are more likely to allow a long-term-care insurance policy to lapse even though they're more likely to need long-term care in the future, according to a new study ...

On June 24, AEI’s Mark J. Warshawsky and a panel of experts discussed America’s long-term care (LTC) system, its flaws, and possible ways to improve it. Stuart M. Butler of the Brookings Institution ...

My husband and I have been thinking about getting a long-term care insurance policy, but we hate the idea of paying expensive monthly premiums for a policy we may never use. Is long-term care ...

My husband and I have been thinking about getting a long-term care insurance policy, but we hate the idea of paying expensive monthly premiums for a policy we may never use. Is long-term care ...