Description: Three long-term care claimants lead very full lives, thanks to making the most of their employer-sponsored group long-term care insurance coverage, in terms of using it through intelligent and conservative benefit utilization.

Description: Family members who care for people with dementia need a wide range of support services to help them do the important work of care giving at home.

Description: Results of the survey conducted just prior to the 2015 ILTCI Conference.

Description: Remarks on the attitudes underlying the stalling of health care reform legislation.

Description: Rhode Island’s unique “global Medicaid waiver” pursues a potentially dangerous national policy trend: long-term care LTC rebalancing without strong eligibility controls. Resulting cost overruns could seriously damage the state’s social safety net. To maximize the global waiver’s opportunity, minimize its danger, and become a LTC financing model for the country, policy makers need to recognize the issues discussed in this report and pursue the recommended additional research and analysis.

Description: Consideration of the LTC Actuarial Standard of Practice

Description: A defense of the CLASS Act from the perspective of the private long term care insurance industry.

Description: This article provides some state officials' responses to a request for information from legislators related to the study and reform of Medicaid long-term care (LTC) eligibility and estate recovery rules. In those replies, there is strong evidence that Medicaid eligibility and estate recovery rules are subject to frequent and egregious abuses.

Description: A discussion of a gathering in Las Vegas of more than 500 insurance agents who discussed various answers to the question: Will there still be a long-term care insurance (LTCi) industry going forward?

Description: A discussion of reverse mortgages, and their suitability for meeting the long term care needs of seniors who want to stay in their homes.