Description: This final report is a SOA Task Force response to a NAIC request to develop valuation recommendations for long-term care insurance. Two basic sets of tables are provided: one for institutional benefits [nursing home] and one for noninstitutional benefits [home health care]. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: Proposes setting premiums such that inflation and age could change the premium over time, rather than prefunding. The value may be to change the approach to pricing LTC and improve the risk.

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: A discussion about change. Change is constant and will continue—some of it predictable; some of it not. Knowledge is the best tool for understanding change, and this publication is a great forum for allowing the best and brightest to share.

Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the Long-Term Care and Middle Market report.

Description: In the United States, individuals needing long-term services and supports (LTSS) access care, utilize services, and pay for their services in various ways. The authors explore how the need for, utilization of and payment for long-term services and supports differ in the U.S. by population cohorts. Their primary focus is disparity by race and ethnicity, but they also consider variations by geography, family structure, age, sex, gender and other socioeconomic factors.

Description: This report is the fifth in a series of studies conducted jointly by LIMRA and the SOA Long-Term Care Experience Committee. The report presents results for industry long-term care insurance (LTCI) persistency. Persistency is examined based on eighteen participating companies reporting lapse, mortality, and total termination activity for calendar years 2000 through 2016. The report and a supplemental Tableau database with several dashboard views can be accessed in the Materials section.

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: A wrap-up of the 2012 LIMRA, LOMA and the Society of Actuaries jointly-sponsored the DI & LTC Insurers’ Forum at Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas.

Description: This is the abstract for the paper entitled 'Pricing Long Term Insurance Contracts.' This paper considers several models describing the changes in the needs of the insured for care over time. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994, VOL. 1.