Description: Short-term Care insurance provides consumers with an alternative option for financing the costs of medical care due to a short-term disability or post-acute care. This article provides an overview of the current Short-term Care market and compares some of the key benefit features to those found in Long-term Care products that are available today.

Description: Concerns of Long-Term Care Insurance for consumers, life insurance agents, financial planners, insurance companies and regulators. From Long Term Care Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 2

Description: Description of Long Term Care programs in various European countries

Description: In spite of the growing need for long-term care financing, recent sales are stagnant and the number of insurance companies offering long-term care insurance is dwindling. This article examines some of the shortcomings of today’s product and suggests a different approach.

Description: Part 2 of a two part article on Long-Term Care Insurance and suitability between a recommended product and the client's. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, October 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: Despite a clear need and demographics which should be favorable to LTCI growth, the market remains stalled due to lack of understanding on the consumer side, and uncertainty on carriers' side. The 3 key risk areas for carriers are morbidity, terminations, and investment earnings. Financial market innovations which can address these include: repackaging risks as derivative securities, interest rate swaps and options, and inflation swaps.

Description: Long Term Care Insurance Reserves and Reinsurance Balancing between statutory and GAAP requiements. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2001, Issue No. 5.

Description: Read the November 2020 issue of Long-Term Care News published by the Long-Term Care Insurance Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Look into history of long-term care insurance industry to understand the forces that shaped current industry's position and to identify new directions.

Description: This article explores several ideas about in-force management and product innovation that may help the industry to reboot, in order to continue protecting Americans against the financial