One of the all-time best sources for keeping in touch with the changing world of long-term care and long-term care insurance is the website called the Center For Long-Term Care Reform, Inc. This non-profit website and center is the brainchild of Steven Moses, Center President. The Center for Long-Term Care Financing was founded in April, 1998 to educate others about the problems which plague America’s long-term care financing system and to advocate public policy that targets our scarce public resources to the neediest, while encouraging everyone else to plan ahead for the risk of expensive long-term care.
Here is a sampling of some of the recent reports and websites that I have discovered from my daily emails from the Center For Long-Term Care Reform, Inc:
The Latest on Alzheimer’s Disease
NIH Alzheimer’s Report — August 2007
Mapping Older America ’ A Brookings Institute Report
http://www3.brookings.edu/views/articles/200705frey.pdf
Providing Long-Term Care for the Oldest Old
http://www.tcf.org/publications/economicsinequality/goldbergbrief.pdf
I find reviewing the introductions and executive summaries of these reports very valuable and from time to time I will get into the data to gather more background. Regardless of your desire for detail, Steve’s summaries of the reports provide you with a looking glass into great research that provides valuable insights into long-term care and long-term care insurance issues.
The Center is a non-profit; it is supported by sponsors and subscribers. I recommend that you take some time on the website to see for yourself how valuable it can be for increasing your knowledge and ability to explain long-term care issues to your clients. I also encourage you to become a subscriber. Steve and his son Damon are providing invaluable service to our country.
Another cool website that I discovered while I was leaping from one link to another yesterday is called Real Age. Like many websites Real Age has its share of gratuitous advertising. However, one of its functionalities is to provide you with a test that will compare your chronological age with your actual age based on a very extensive online questionnaire that asks you about your health and lifestyle. I didn’t do as badly as I thought I would but I’d sure like to do better! Check it out and let me know what you think.
We hope that you have a great weekend. I will be traveling most of next week but I hope to stay in touch.
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