Description: There are many ways to manage a long-term care closed block of policies but some of the common ones are rate increases, enhancement of claim practices and helping policyholders to remain independent and thriving at home.

Description: Overview of market research plan to test consumer interest in 2 new LTC finance options which emerged from the most recent Society of Actuaries' LTC Think Tank

Description: Review of LTC Industry

Description: This article highlights several innovative ideas in the LTC insurance industry that were discussed at the 2016 ILTCI Conference, including: LifeStage LTC, insurance linked to wearable devices, repackaging existing LTC, retirement accounts, and "uberfication" of home health care.

Description: Congress authorized the creation of the RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council in 2018. The Council, comprised of family caregivers and experts from a wide variety of stakeholder organizations in both the private and public sector, have been engaged in an in-depth research effort over the last two years to develop recommendations and an implementation plan to address our national caregiving crisis. This article describes their work and the newly released Report to Congress.

Description: This article will highlight new model visualization approaches we use to shed light on the “black-box” nature of advanced modeling techniques. These visualizations help us better highlight and understand the key drivers of predictions so that they can be understood and validated by all stakeholders

Description: A summary of the recent SOA Product Development Section webinar, Challenging the Status Quo: Emerging LTC Product Designs. Summarizes discussions on how the LTC industry can overcome existing hurdles and evolve to meet consumer needs.

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: This article discusses secondary factors that affect pricing and long-term care claims experience gender, marital status, region, product type, distribution, and education.

Description: Premium rates for Long-Term Care insurance return of premium riders at death. Issue No. 10