Planning ahead is also a way of caring for your family.
Long-Term Care
If one day you need care, who would carry it, and how?
The aim is to understand how a need for extended care could affect your income, your assets and your family's dynamics, and which insurance options are available based on your age, your health, your eligibility and the product's terms.
- Extended care
- Your family in the conversation
- Licensed insurance agent
How we review it
Five steps to understand it calmly.
First what could happen and who it would affect. Then which options exist and what conditions they carry.
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In context: more than half of older adults are projected to use some paid long-term care service after 65 (HHS / ASPE).
Understand
What a need for extended care is.
Many policies trigger benefits when a person needs help with activities of daily living, or due to cognitive impairment, as the policy defines it. These activities are:
- Bathing and dressing
- Toileting and continence
- Transferring, for example from a bed to a chair
- Eating
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Care also changes the lives of those who give it.
Identify
Who and what it would affect.
We review how a need for care could affect what you have built:
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Your income
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Your assets
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Your family and who would care for you
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Where you would receive care
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Availability depends on your age, your health and the product.
Explore
The insurance options available.
We explain the options we can present to you and how they differ:
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Long-term care insurance
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Life insurance with care benefits, when the product includes them
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Not every need for assistance triggers benefits: the contract defines it.
Compare
Each policy's conditions.
The contractual definition, the certification and the product's conditions are what trigger benefits. We review them with you:
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What triggers the benefit
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Elimination period
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Benefit amount and duration
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Exclusions
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Planning it today is a family conversation.
Decide
With your family, and with clear information.
You decide whether coverage makes sense for you. Issue depends on eligibility and underwriting. For tax questions, we refer you to your tax professional and the contract.
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An informed decision
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Application and underwriting
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Follow-up
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Long-Term Care
Have you talked about it with your family?
Let's review how a need for care could affect your income and your assets, and which options are available to you.
What you build today should be able to carry on tomorrow.
The information on this page is general and educational. Benefits are triggered according to the policy's definition, the required certification and the product's conditions; not every need for assistance triggers benefits. Availability is subject to age, health, eligibility and underwriting. Tax treatment depends on the contract and your situation; consult your tax professional.
Context figure: HHS / ASPE, Long-Term Services and Supports; a national projection, not an individual prediction.