long term care insurance

It’s sad but true: by the time most people realize they wish they had a long term care insurance policy, they are too sick or old to buy one.

So, in an effort to mitigate the crushing financial toll long term care will have with no planning, many of them end up doing short-term planning– let’s call it crisis planning. Crisis planning isn’t about optimal strategies. It’s all about limiting the financial destruction and trying to make up for the fact that no real plan for how to pay for care is in place.

Getting long term care planning done well in advance of when you actually need it stacks the deck in your favor. That’s why people in their 40’s-60’s are benefiting themselves by visiting the topic of long term care planning decades in advance of their 80’s, when they are most likely to have a claim.

Modern consumers have greatly benefited from the ability to comparison shop and order from virtually any purveyor. This reality has even started to infiltrate the healthcare market.

However, long term care decisions for yourself or a loved one tend to be more difficult and cannot necessarily be made at the touch of a button through technology like Siri and Alexa. Whether the search is for a home health care worker, or, a facility such as an assisted living facility or nursing home, the choice is often a complex and nuanced one.

November is long term care awareness month. Even though long term care is often discussed in the news, it is frequently confused with healthcare.

Genworth has released its 2017 cost of care findings.

The national median hourly rate for homemaker services rings in at $21/hour. Meanwhile, the national median hourly rate for home health aide services is $22/hour. The median for adult day care is $70/day. While assisted living facilities will cost you $3,750/month. Lastly, nursing care for a private room will run a median average of $267/day, while a semi-private room is a daily rate of $235. 

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When people imagine long term care they often envision the elderly being cared for in nursing homes. However, research indicates that more often than not the reality of long term care does not actually reflect this image. In fact, there are several trends that are currently changing the face of long term care in America.