Description: Preview of the LTC section's sessions at the SOA Annual Meeting in October 2008, including claims management, litigation and public relations, preparing for PBA and stochastic modeling, pricing, research studies, and securitizations and reinsurance.

Description: Recap on the annual meeting, and in particular the sessions sponsored by the health section.

Description: Summary of results of a 2010 Health Section survey of actuaries and Medicare population, on ways to bend the cost trend curve downward. Issues included transparency, quality measures, fraud and abuse, provider payment, malpractice, medical errors, consumer education, and the pros and cons of employer-sponsored coverage.

Description: Article is about my experience and emergence in the long term care industry. It highlights my prior experiences and my favorite things to work on.

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

Description: This article provides an update on the progress that has been made for the 2017 LTC Section initiatives.

Description: Data requirements for the Society of Actuaries cancer experience study, for those submitting exposure and claim information.

Description: The traditional informal care of/by family has faced increasing geographic and economic challenges from changing family households and sources of family income. Financial planning and risk protection tools provide important resource in the changing retirement landscape toward optimal family support and crisis management, that is, with less duress and financial burden to affected family caregivers. Ultimately, maintaining family values and close communications through evolving family structures are key to a healthy society and economic welfare of the people.

Description: A list of acronyms for the names of the agencies, unions, and other organizations and entities involved in the French social insurance, health policy, and long-term care environment.

Description: Successful Marketing and Selling to Baby-Boomer-and-Older Customers Twelve Recent Brain Research Discoveries Having Relevance to Successful Communications By James J. Gilmartin from Long-Term Care Newsletter, September 2004, Issue No. 12.