Monthly Archives: August 2009

What Are My Options For Long-Term Care?

A recent article in the Jackson Sun does a good job summarizing the most common types of long-term care facilities or options, which include: nursing homes, assisted living facilities and in-home care. You can read the full article HERE but below we'll digest some of the information for you. It's important to understand how ...

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Discuss Long Term Care Insurance via Our New Facebook Page

LTC Connects is now on Facebook. Click on the "Become a Fan" button to the right or Click HERE to become a fan and start a discussion on long-term care insurance. We hope this be a new venue for folks to chat about long term care issues. We'll be ...

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Long Term Care Insurance Tips You Need to Read

Kiplinger.com has put together a pretty extensive piece on long term care insurance. They've included 7 'episodes', covering topics such as "What is Long term care?" to paying to long term care to building an effective long term care insurance policy. Next week we're going to take a look at each episode and provide some ...

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Top Twitter Topic: Baby Boomers + Long Term Care Insurance

Believe it or not, there is a lot of good information being shared on Twitter about long term care, seniors, aging and more. Due to the 140 character limit, you're more likely to uncover some good links to interesting articles than a conversation or debate on a particular subject. Today we found an article published ...

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Price Transparency – The Real Health Care Issue?

One of the issues you're not hearing much about in the debate over health care reform, is transparency. That is, as a patient walking into the hospital, whether in the ER, a routine check up or some other procedure, we rarely, if ever, know how much something is going to cost before it happens. I ...

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Long Term Health Care Sites You Need to Follow

We're constantly keeping an eye on the latest news in long term health care and long term health care insurance. The reality is we can't provide the best service to our customers unless we know what their concerns are, but also, what they're seeing in the marketplace, what they're ...

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Top 5 Factors That Influence Long-Term Care Insurance Costs

Last week we wrote a quick post about buying long term care insurance and 3 factors that influence LTCI premiums. Today we want to build upon that post and provide some additional details and recommendations. The Top 5 Things That Influence Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums: 1)    Daily or Monthly Benefit: ...

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