Description: A study of disability experience examines cost burden and degree of disability, and how these measures vary across different subpopulations.

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: View report on Long Term Care Experience Basic Table Development.

Description: This report details the method taken to develop the aggregate databases 2000-2016 Long-Term Care Intercompany Experience Study. It contains definitions for each of the data elements in these databases. It should serve as a user guide for anyone working with the aggregated databases.

Description: The public relations campaign for this year’s Centennial Celebration of the actuarial profession took off strong with the first “Forecast 2000” forum conducted April 25 in Miami. One of the forum's topics was a survey about long term care in the future.

Description: This article discusses the details of being classified as cognitively impaired, particularly the relationship between being classified as cognitively impaired and subsequent mortality experience and the effect of cognitive impairment on mortality rates.

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: 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: In this session, morbidity and life expectancy trends are discussed. In addition, a case study in R on how to model the uncertainty associated with incidence of disability, disabled and active deaths and other terminations is presented.

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