Description: Steps the AAA long-term care work group is taking to address the actuarial certification and rate stability of LTCI. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: Welcome to the first articles written for the Underwriting Network appearing in the newsletter. At the 5th Annual Inter-Company LTCI Conference, Dr. William Rodman Shankle and Dr. James M. Jacobson gave us a fresh look at cognitive testing.

Description: Implications of Demographic and Family Change on retirement and long term care. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2002, Issue No. 7.

Description: Article examines consistency across different underwriting manuals for LTCI.

Description: Observations of a Home Health Care Experience Analysis incidence rates, selection rates, avg length of service. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, October 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: Results of HIAA’s 1999 Study of LTCI Contract Reserves by William C. Weller from Long Term Care Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 2.

Description: Cognitive tests used in the long-term care insurance industry differ in cognitive domains tested, time required for testing, ease of test administration, sensitivity and specificity. Recently, new approaches to scoring or testing have improved test utility for screening for cognitive impairment.

Description: This article addresses the complexities and practicalities of constructing a continuance curve from long-term care LTC claims data.

Description: Feature article discussing how leveraging intelligent automation can help financial services firms to automate processes, increase efficiency and consistency, and allow existing human labor to focus on more strategic activities while also improving customer experiences.

Description: A summary of a scientific paper written to address the differences and similarities between the option pricing method now more commonly known as fair valuation and the actuarial appraisal method.