"We're on the threshold of the first-ever mass geriatric society," says Dr. Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2002 to 2005. "The bad news is that the price that many people are going to be paying for [an] extra decade of healthy longevity is up to another decade of anything but healthy ...
What's happening with long term care today? Why are Colorado's long term care insurance costs 12% higher than the rest of the country? Are LTC Insurance costs cheaper at home? Nursing home costs rising faster than home-care costs, report finds - McKnight's LTC Insurance ...
If you follow the New Old Age blog on nytimes.com, you may have seen a recent post on nursing homes. Specifically, how stressful it can be to find a "good" nursing home. As my parents have been thinking about this issue recently, I decided to do a quick search to find out just how ...
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 ...
If you've ever wondered what the average long term care insurance premium is, you can now breathe a bit easier. We just published a simple but valuable tool for those who are looking into insurance for long term care, but are unsure just how much monthly premiums may be. By ...
People discuss all sorts of health topics on Twitter, but recently there's been quite a bit of tweeting regarding long term care and long term care insurance. Today we stumbled...sorry, twumbled...across a link to a recent article about a study on long term care insurance. What caught us by surprise though was the Twitterer ...