Description: A defense of the CLASS Act from the perspective of the private long term care insurance industry.

Description: This report, as well as the previous three, is based on data gathered for policies issued back to 1984. Data in this report has been combined and analyzed from 20 organizations 24 insurers that provided information to further the public and private knowledge of long-term care insurance.

Description: Corin Chapman explores the many perspectives to consider when determining appropriate insurance regulation.

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: This is an article about single women and marketing to them.

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 is aimed at developing young actuaries and how the current LTCI market offers much opportunity.

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

Description: Summary of results from survey of LTC Section members, on use of resources, meetings attendanceand topics of interest.

Description: The SOA Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risks, working closely with the SOA Long Term Care Section, issued a call for papers in 2013: “Managing the Impact of Long-Term Care Needs and Expense on Retirement Security: A Holistic and Multi-Generational View.” The papers that were chosen were highlighted at the 2014 Annual Meeting and will be published as a monograph, both available on the SOA website. These papers add to the section’s and others’ ongoing discussions about the future of the long term care system including the “Land This Plane” project. Some of the items of greatest focus are integration with retirement security, impact on the caregiver and family, and integration with housing as well as offering an array of possible pubic policy reform.