Description: Family caregivers are a critical link in providing long-term services and supports (LTSS), but they have significant unmet needs. To better support family caregivers, Congress authorized the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, & Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act in 2018 and created the RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council. The Council identified recommendations to serve as the backbone of a national strategy to improve the physical, emotional and financial well-being of family caregivers. A new report, "Asking Directions: Mapping a Course to Support Family Caregivers," identifies specific actions across a variety of players for meeting the Council’s recommendations. It summarizes insights from a year’s worth of strategy sessions and interviews with representatives of over 100 organizations. The report brings together thoughts on best practices and the most critical action steps from national and state organizations, county health providers, the direct care workforce, large and small employers, aging and disability organizations, faith-based groups, respite care providers and more. This article summarizes the research methods and key findings of the report and the work conducted by the Leading Age LTSS Center @UMass Boston and Community Catalyst’s Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation.

Description: Targeted Improvements provides a strong impetus for commitment by management to develop and maintain a set of appropriate assumptions. As even the best of assumptions will take time to season, the sooner the improvements in assumptions are made, the quicker the goal of stabilized earnings can be realized.

Description: Read the Q&A with an Experienced Insurance Professional New to Long-Term Care: An Interview with Sean Pena.

Description: Column from the SOA staff actuary for the Long-Term Care Section.

Description: Read the December 2018 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: Recent major changes in California law make the CA Partnership for Long Term Care affordable for those with moderate income and assets.

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

Description: A summary from the annual ILTCI conference including session content from seven tracks focusing on unique issues and solutions in long term care.

Description: Read the August 2018 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: This article explores several ideas about in-force management and product innovation that may help the industry to reboot, in order to continue protecting Americans against the financial

Description: This article summarizes the presentations by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries at the January 2015 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) Roundtables in Washington DC. SOA presented on the 2014 SOA monograph series "The Link between Retirement Security and Long-Term Care."

Description: Both claim inflation rate and yield drive the loss ratio projection of long term care insurance (LTCi). The effects depends on whether a policy has inflation protection or not. A constant margin between claim inflation and discount rates does not produce a constant loss ratio. Considering the relationship between yield and claim inflation would improve the risk profile of LTCi.

Description: Estimates and analyzes current growth of premium, reserves and lives for long term care insurance. Interested in distribution of reserves by active versus inactive players as well as reinsurance of long term care reinsurance.

Description: A summary of a scientific paper written to address the differences and similarities between the option pricing method now more commonly known as fair valuation and the actuarial appraisal method.

Description: A discussion of insurance claims processing and payment systems, and how to achieve the minimum possible number of errors.

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

Description: This is an article about claims and the growing impact they have on insurance companies financially.

Description: 2003 Intercompany LTCI Conference – Actuarial Track Highlights by Vincent L. Bodnar from Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2003, Issue No. 9.

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