Description: This is a chart that estimates spending on long-term care for older adults in the year 2004 from an article entitled Long-Term Care is Poised for Growth.

Description: 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This session on Long Term Care Insurance provided an update on the Society's Task Force on Valuation Methods for Long-Term Care Insurance, methods and assumptions that are being used for policies, premiums, and reserves on long-term care policies, and the regulatory environment.

Description: This article discusses what options exist for people who don’t pass underwriting for long-term care (LTC) insurance.

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.

Description: A proposal to address provider payment issues by gradually moving to accountable care organizations. Capitations would be risk-adjusted, non-capitated costs would be covered by hospitalization fund and stoploss, incentives for quality & effective preventive care would be tied to the amount remaining in the fund, and government involvement would be through incentives rather than mandate.

Description: Web page introducing a study sponsored by the SOA Health Section of nine papers that look at frequently used methodologies of measuring outcomes of health intervention programs.

Description: News Direct 2016 Issue Number 72 • MAY 2016

Description: May 2010 issue of the Long-Term Care Insurance Section newsletter.

Description: Essay stating accessibility, affordability and efficiency are the key to success in the future of healthcare.

Description: Report on the first study conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the SOA Long Term Care Experience Committee. The study examines voluntary lapse and total termination activity in LTCI for calendar years 2000 and 2001. Overall, the results indicate that LTCI persistency has continued to improve however, the current improvement seems to be coming from the individual lines of business rather than the group lines.