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

Description: One of the dangers in any sort of modeling, whether for insurance experience or in financial portfolios, is becoming too reliant upon statistics and models, and not keeping reasoned, experienced judgment in sight. This article provides ways to address adverse experience possibilities resulting from misestimation risk.

Description: High points of AcademyHealth’s LTC group policy seminar are discussed, including the relationship between post-acute care PAC and long-term care bundling PAC payments and the implications of research in this area of long-term care.

Description: The benefits of touch-screen technology for senior citizens is discussed.

Description: Article presents issues for postretirement medical on models, data and the frail elderly. From Health Section News, December 2000, Issue No. 39.

Description: Author’s response to discussant comments for the 2009 Housing Wealth monograph paper, “Home Equity and At-Need Annuities—A Dynamic Long-Term Care Funding Duo”. The paper describes the prevalence of the still uninsured long-term care financial risk, and how the at-need annuity/home equity combination can address long term care needs.

Description: This report describes two methods, an observation-based analysis and an actual to model analysis, to analyze long-term care insurance experience to determine if calendar year trends exist.

Description: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

Description: This article discusses the expansion of benefits supporting long-term care services in Medicare Advantage plans

Description: A discuss of notice and consent requirements for employer-owned life insurance policies and the IRS rules again on an annuity-LTC combination product.