Description: Read the December 2017 issue of Long-Term Care News published by the Long Term Care Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Can the California Partnership for Long Term Care be revived?

Description: Review of LTC Industry.

Description: Second article in a series on how to use predictive analytics to improve the development of long-term care projection assumptions.

Description: Observations of a Home Health Care Experience Analysis incidence rates, selection rates, avg length of service. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, October 2000, Issue No. 3.

Description: President Clinton’s Long-Term Care Initiative Presentation on January 4, 1999. Addresses support for family caregivers. From Long Term Care Newsletter, September 1999, Issue No. 1.

Description: SOA Committee on Post-Retirement Needs and Risk by Anna M. Rappaport from Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2002, Issue No. 7.

Description: Column from the editor of Long-Term Care News.

Description: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the GUIDE model, which represents a significant step forward in improving dementia care nationwide. Those with deep expertise in dementia recognize that family caregivers are the most powerful frontline defense to improve care for people living with dementia. It is thus not surprising that the GUIDE model specifically requires the inclusion of the family caregiver in the care team.

Description: This article focuses on issues that arise when determining policyholder eligibility and provider eligibility under tax-qualified long term care insurance policies, and provides some suggestions and observations that should further improve claim handling and reduce litigation.