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Your Long-Term Care Insurance Rate Spiked. Now What?

Your Long-Term Care Insurance Rate Spiked. Now What?

by External Article | Aug 23, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Finances, Long Term Caregiving, Planning | 0 comments

Karen Herzog, a retired high school teacher, bought a long-term care insurance policy 12 years ago because she didn’t want to burden her only daughter if someday she could no longer care for herself. Then a letter arrived in May that complicated her well-laid plan....
When the Long-Term Care Insurer Refuses to Pay

When the Long-Term Care Insurer Refuses to Pay

by External Article | Jun 21, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Finances, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

My dad was a smart guy, but not so smart as to avoid being hoodwinked by those who drafted the contract for my mom’s long-term care insurance policy. When my father died in 2013, he went to his grave imagining that my mother, then an Alzheimer’s patient, would get the...
Navigating the Shifting Terrain of Long-Term Care Insurance

Navigating the Shifting Terrain of Long-Term Care Insurance

by Guest Author | Apr 12, 2018 | Caregiving 101, Finances, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

If you’re like most people, you probably hope to live in your home in good health without assistance as you age. However, a majority of older adults won’t be able to get by without some assistance due to chronic illness and cognitive or mobility issues. According to...
A Life Worth Ending

A Life Worth Ending

by External Article | May 20, 2012 | Care Work Library, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Finances, Generation X, Housing, Long Term Caregiving, Planning | 0 comments

I didn’t need to be schooled in the realities of long-term care: The costs for my mother, who is 86 and who, for the past eighteen months, has not been able to walk, talk, or to address her most minimal needs and, to boot, is absent a short-term memory, come in at...

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