Long-term care insurance can help by covering some of the medical and support services that people with degenerative conditions, cognitive disorders or other long-term illnesses will need. Learn More: ...

Here are financial experts' tips and alternative strategies for getting long-term care insurance in your 70s.

In my 34 years of advising retirees and those transitioning into retirement, I have not seen a stock market drop cause anyone with a properly managed and diversified portfolio and reasonable spending ...

“We’ve been paying into long-term-care insurance since we were in our mid-50s,” said a friend, now in her late 60s. “But with all of the premium increases, we might have been better off just investing ...

Do long-term care (LTC) insurance policies cover medical and non-medical in-home care? Yes, they do. But make sure you read the actual fine print. Not every long-term care insurance policy covers home ...

Most Americans think Medicare covers long-term care, the regimen of daily help that many seniors will eventually require. It does not. That basic misunderstanding has retirement experts worried. It ...

Stand-alone long-term care insurance policies have been waning in popularity, owing to a combination of skyrocketing premiums and difficult claims experiences by consumers. In their place, so-called ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover tax, budget and retirement policy from Washington Three things are true about long-term care, though many Americans don’t ...

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Years ago, when I was reporting on health care for The Connecticut Mirror, it was hard to get through a week without hearing about trouble brewing in the long-term care insurance industry. Frustrated ...