Description: A discussion of reverse mortgages, and their suitability for meeting the long term care needs of seniors who want to stay in their homes.

Description: French Long Term Care Insurance overview.

Description: December issue of LTC News

Description: Update on LTC Section activities and other issues from the perspective of a Society of Actuaries' staff actuary.

Description: The Proposed Accounting Standards Update was exposed on September 29, 2016 with the comment period ending on December 15, 2016.

Description: Tidbits relate to contingent deferred annuities, wellness benefits in qualified long-term care contracts, and reactivating the active financing exception for insurance companies.

Description: Long-term-care LTC insurance presents a huge opportunity for insurers. If fully exploited, the field lends itself to policies with relatively large premiums that need to be accumulated over a lifetime in statutory reserves, requiring fiduciary investment management as well as insurance services. The need to accumulate large reserves to prefund a risk largely concentrated at the end of the life span gives this product most of the desirable characteristics of the level premium life insurance policies that were the staple of the insurance business for many decades.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1998 New York Annual Meeting discusses current developments in the market for long-term-care insurance including underwriting, regulatory activity, pricing and plan design.

Description: This is a research report that highlights the characteristics of combination plans that serve to reduce the risks to insurers issuing life or annuity products linked to long-term care insurance. Observations are provided to assist in the understanding of the factors that explain the profit change sensitivity results and the natural hedging against major risks that inherently is present within the linked products.