If you’re wealthy, you’ll be able to afford help in your home or care in an assisted living facility or a nursing home. If you’re poor, you can turn to Medicaid for nursing homes or aides at home. But ...

Healthcare costs can be one of the most expensive aspects of retirement, even with Medicare covering much of the basics. Part of the issue is that if you need to receive long-term care, such as a home ...

Long-term care insurance can help pay for care needs, but it's important to be aware of the elimination period and inflation ...

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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 ...

Demand and costs for care are rising at the same time that a labor shortage threatens to worsen. How can you plan for this need now? By Mark Miller Samir Shah is a forecaster — but he’s an expert on ...

“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 ...

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If you read my work regularly, you know that I’m a little bit obsessed with the topic of long-term care, not just how to pay for it, but also all the other dimensions of it, like the impact on ...

Deciding when, or whether, to buy long-term care insurance can be complex. Here’s what to know. By Jordan Rau This article is part of the Dying Broke series examining how the immense financial costs ...

Over half of seniors will need help with eating, getting dressed or other basic activities at some point, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the cost of help continues ...