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

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

Description: Description of Long Term Care programs in various European countries

Description: This article provides insight on how the worksite LTC market has evolved, and how new concepts like "Financial Wellness" are serving as a catalyst to engage employees in LTC Planning during their working years.

Description: This paper presents an approach to analyzing continuing care retirement community [CCRC] data, and demonstrates the methods using data from a large CCRC. It is assumed that residents make transitions among a number of states that represent the levels of care required by residents. There is randomness associated with both the transition times and the states entered at these times. The model is conveniently characterized in terms of transition intensity functions, which represent the instantaneous rates of transition between pairs of states.

Description: This excerpt is from a presentation done by a panelist at the Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance Conference Association closing session in Chicago in March. We can never fully express our thanks to the Alzheimer’s Association and Tom Doyle for the courage to share his moving story and optimism for the future.

Description: Essay submission on impact of COVID-19 on Senior Housing and Support.

Description: Presentation of Long-Term Care Insurance Mortality and Lapse Study presentation to NAIC Health Actuarial (B) Task Force (HATF) on November29,2021.

Description: A recent study sponsored by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and ILTCI Conference Board examines morbidity improvement and how it impacts long-term care (LTC). The study was authored by P.J. Eric Stallard and Anatoliy Yashin of Duke University. This article summarizes the study’s findings and provides useful background for readers who may not be familiar with LTC services and insurance.

Description: This is the fourth Intercompany Study of Long–Term Care Insurance. This report combines and analyzes data received from 24 insurers that agreed to provide information to further the knowledge of long–term care insurance. Those insurers are listed in Appendix A of the report.