Description: Retirement Symposium overview. A session by session synopsis of the wide ranging topics presented.

Description: This paper addresses the financial risk of long-term care by examining the use of reverse mortgages to help impaired elders continue to live at home.

Description: This paper explores the context for retirement in the future, sets forth alternative scenarios for retirement and considers the public policy, individual, and family implications of these scenarios.

Description: This paper models the extent of the tax dollars being lost by the government today because of Qualified Pension Plans and IRAs, and then goes on to project the extra revenue that will accrue to the government from these same pension plans when the baby boomers retire.

Description: Paper estimates the burden of chronic disability on the U.S. elderly population, using sex-specific measures of long-term care LTC service use, intensity and costs.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to examine the various profit objectives used in the development of a new product for a stock life insurance company. From Product Development Section Monograph, M-AS99-3.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 6B: Health Status and its Impact on Mortality

Description: This paper proposes, for long-term care, a new funding model in which social insurance and private insurance will pay for the bulk of the costs, supplemented by personal payment. If these sources fail, public welfare will serve as a safety net.

Description: Overview of the papers presented at the Retirement Implications of Demographic and Family Change Symposium

Description: This paper examines the risk associated with long-term care, as well as a variety of insurance-based vehicles that can assist consumers in protecting them from this risk.