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

Description: The Minnesota Cognitive Acuity Screen MCAS is a brief cognitive screen that has been validated to correctly identify mild to moderate cognitive impairment in 98.1 percent of all cases. The MCAS has been in use in the LTCI industry for more than five years, and has shown excellent results in reducing early cognitive claims.

Description: An overview of the various track topics and sessions in the 9th Annual ILTCI Conference.

Description: This article provides a high-level overview of the 2016 Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance (ILTCI) Conference. The article contains a summary of all conference activities, including various networking and educational opportunities. The main objective of the conference is to provide an information sharing and collaborative environment for insurance professionals, regulatory authorities, insurance educational institutes, actuaries and other special groups with an interest in long-term care (LTC) insurance.

Description: Views on how to manage a block of long-term care insurance which has been placed in runoff, from a strategic, operational and financial perspective

Description: Reasons reinsurance of legacy long-term care insurance is difficult to achieve.

Description: this article addresses the need for rate increases in LTC insurance and some common misconceptions.

Description: Impact of various treatments for Alzheimer's on long term care insurance claims. From Long Term Care Newsletter, Sebtember 1999, Issue No. 1.

Description: In this article, we describe new approaches to long-term care financing that rely on home equity release and we address several of the challenges mentioned above. While these approaches stand to help expand the potential for long-term care financing to middle-class Americans, even these approaches don’t address a large swath of the U.S. with less privilege, who have little or no home equity. We will discuss the product design, marketing, pricing and risk management of these new approaches and potential behavioral factors that should be considered. The article builds on a growing body of academic research to which the authors have actively contributed. We want to share the key insights of this international work in market research, economics, and actuarial studies to stimulate more research in this area.

Description: Approaches to filing, approving and implementing LTC rate increases impact policyholder behavior regarding retaining/modifying their coverage.