Description: The editor discusses the importance of purchasing a long-term care insurance policy. He also presents highlights of the articles contained in the issue.

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

Description: A personal experience of joining the LTC industry and a brief perspective on how to address challenges facing the industry.

Description: A consideration of the issues involved in adding long-term care provisions to the social security system in France, and how the conditions differ from those in the U.S.

Description: Family members who care for people with dementia need a wide range of support services to help them do the important work of care giving at home.

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."

Description: Ideas to improve claim practices, thereby improving public perception of the LTCI industry.

Description: Nearly 75 percent of long term care premium protection still originates from traditional long term care insurance despite fewer carriers offering products.

Description: This article provides a summary of the 2016 Milliman LTC rate increase survey and additional commentary from our years of experience with rate increase filings.

Description: There is much to be learned as we balance the consumer’s need for LTC now and in the future along with the insurer’s need for sustainability.