Description: Views on how to manage a block of long-term care insurance which has been placed in runoff, from a strategic, operational and financial perspective

Description: This article discusses the expansion of benefits supporting long-term care services in Medicare Advantage plans

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

Description: To penetrate the market of those who today are concerned about future long-term care needs, LTCI providers will need to combine strategies for financial sustainability with the consumer- driven product design focus of the early to mid-1990s.

Description: Welcome to the first articles written for the Underwriting Network appearing in the newsletter. At the 5th Annual Inter-Company LTCI Conference, Dr. William Rodman Shankle and Dr. James M. Jacobson gave us a fresh look at cognitive testing.

Description: Read the October 2019 issue of Long-Term Care News published by the Long Term Care Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: An exploration of actuarial and other financial issues involved with Continuing Care Retirement Communities, which are also known as Life Plan Communities

Description: As the topic of affordable long-term care (LTC) insurance comes into focus in political conversations, we often find ourselves thinking, “What is going to happen to the private LTC insurance industry going forward?” The need for LTC in the United States is not going away, especially as the population continues to age. With this in mind, this article explores three possible future paths for LTC insurance funding and the associated implications for the private LTC industry.

Description: The goals of the first Annual LTC Operations and Technology Benchmark Survey were to develop time and cost benchmarks for LTC operations, identify the most pressing operations and technology issues, and gain insight into the technologies that are being used to administer long-term care business.

Description: The "Think Tank on Steroids" group at the DI and LTC Insurers’ Forum brainstormed about what the United States should do in order to deal with the impending Long-Term Care problem in the United States. The group’s ideal plan for dealing with Long Term Care can be thought of as a three-legged stool. The legs are private savings and assets (including tax-advantaged LTC savings accounts), Long-Term Care Insurance (including smaller, more affordable products), and support from the family. The Medicaid system ought to be reformed so that it is only available to people who have exhausted all other options. The ongoing Think Tank will continue this conversation and publish a white paper detailing the Think Tank’s solution to the problem.