Description: Article presents new course readings that cover hot health topics that will expand actuarial expertise in the Health Systems practice area.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 5A. The paper presented proposes a new method to price the longevity risk premia in order to tackle the pricing obstacle.

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: For policies with and without the resotoration of benefits feature, compares incurred claims and statutory ALR for various benefit periods.

Description: Transcript of General Session 1:Implications of Longer Life Spans: What Does This All Mean to Us?

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 paper will focus on two broad areas, integration of insurance products with investment products to mitigate the risk of outliving one’s assets in post-retirement financial planning. Modeling and pricing for the longevity risk in the secondary market in insurance.

Description: For establishing the ongoing adequacy of claim reserves for blocks of long-term care insurance, retro testing is a blunt tool, the results of which are not conclusive. Claim reserve retro tests should be reviewed by claim duration, include the impact of interest consistently, and include updated assumptions that can have an impact on claim termination rates or other factors. The new NAIC LTC Experience Reporting Forms estimated to arrive for reporting year 2008 will help modernize LTCI retro tests, providing additional accuracy and standardization. Actuaries should not wait for these forms, but rather ensure that any claim reserve analysis moves beyond a basic calendar year retro test.

Description: Pitfalls with long-term care experience studies and tips for dealing with them.

Description: Presented at April 1986 Spring Meeting. Defines programs related to providing long-term care for the aging population through Life Care Societies 'LCS', nursing care products, Continuing Care Retirement Communities, etc. and actuarial considerations related to LCS in establishing funding requirements and evaluating liabilities.