What is Long-term Care Insurance (LTCi)?
Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical
care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term
care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom.
Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes.
How will you PROTECT your
assets?
With costs for Long Term Care services increasing our attention is focused on the devastating impact it could have
on our financial future. Advances in health care increasing our average life span, families living farther apart and
all of us counting on fixed budgets forcing us take a hard look at our resources.
Are you concerned about:
Protecting your life savings
Living in a facility of your own choosing
An envirment where you get quality care
Burdening family with caregiver responsibilities
Odds of needing it?
You may never need long-term care, but millions
will need it at some point in their life. Most will be cared for at home; family and friends are the sole caregivers
for large percent of the elderly.
Who pays for it?
Long
term care services aren't adequately covered by most types of insurance or governmental programs including Medicare and Medicaid.
• Most private medical and major medical insurance plans do not cover
long term care.
• Medicare generally covers some nursing home care, but only for a limited time.
• Disability
insurance only replaces lost income.
• Medicaid pays only for nursing home care after you have spent most
of your assets.
That's why many Americans are looking at long term
care insurance.
What are the types of care?
A
common misperception is that long term care means staying in a nursing home. Today, there are other care options available.
Long term care services can be divided into two types of care: home and community care and facility care.
In home and
community care you have Home Health Care, Informal Custodial Care, Homemaker Services, Hospice Care and Adult Day Care.
In facility care you have Residential Care Facilities and Nursing homes.
Cost
of care
Since the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996,
it is now clear who is primarily responsible for paying for long term care: YOU. Long term care can be expensive. The National
average cost for a private room in nursing home adds up. Even in-home assistance is expensive.
Contact us so we can see how we can help you today!