Description: Brief summary of Study Analyzing Demographic Experience of Continuing Care Retirement Community Residents. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: You really can have it all: readily available and relevant information derived from consistent and understood data. Getting at the Truth requires a good datawarehouse design and an appropriate business data model. Add a powerful and flexible Web–based analytical interface to get at the data and success in the pursuit of Truth will happen.

Description: For establishing the ongoing adequacy of claim reserves for blocks of long-term care insurance, retro testing is a blunt tool, the results of which are not conclusive. Claim reserve retro tests should be reviewed by claim duration, include the impact of interest consistently, and include updated assumptions that can have an impact on claim termination rates or other factors. The new NAIC LTC Experience Reporting Forms estimated to arrive for reporting year 2008 will help modernize LTCI retro tests, providing additional accuracy and standardization. Actuaries should not wait for these forms, but rather ensure that any claim reserve analysis moves beyond a basic calendar year retro test.

Description: This article discusses impact of Life Line Screenings on LTC policyholder claims results.

Description: This is an article about claims and the growing impact they have on insurance companies financially.

Description: Recently, the SCAN Foundation, AARP, LeadingAge, and HHS funded economic modeling conducted by Milliman and the Urban Institute around LTC reform elements. The LTC industry has over the years also generated ideas to address the on-coming expansion of LTC needs in the U.S. For this article, we have brought together three individuals who have long involvement with LTC financing to discuss some of the recent ideas and provide some perspectives on their pluses and minuses.

Description: Article discusses the failure of the CLASS Act, and examines the use of the LTCI Partnership Program, to meet the needs of middle-market consumers.

Description: This article highlights several innovative ideas in the LTC insurance industry that were discussed at the 2016 ILTCI Conference, including: LifeStage LTC, insurance linked to wearable devices, repackaging existing LTC, retirement accounts, and "uberfication" of home health care.

Description: This article will highlight new model visualization approaches we use to shed light on the “black-box” nature of advanced modeling techniques. These visualizations help us better highlight and understand the key drivers of predictions so that they can be understood and validated by all stakeholders

Description: This is an article about the sales process for long-term care insurance.