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Preserve care choices
Insurance benefits can help families consider a wider range of eligible home and facility care options.
Care & Independence
Long-Term Care
Create a plan that can help preserve independence, family choices, and retirement resources when extended care is needed.
Long-term care insurance is designed to help pay for qualifying extended care services that support people who need assistance with everyday activities or who meet other policy eligibility requirements. Depending on the policy, benefits may support care at home, assisted living, adult day care, memory care, or nursing facility care.
Start with the basics
What is long-term care insurance?
Long-term care insurance provides benefits for qualifying custodial and personal-care needs that are generally outside the primary purpose of traditional health insurance. Policies commonly use functional or cognitive criteria to determine benefit eligibility and offer a chosen daily or monthly benefit for a specified benefit period or pool of money.
What can it help accomplish?
Think about the role the coverage may play in protecting your financial flexibility, family goals, and future choices.
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Protect retirement resources
Benefits may help preserve more savings and retirement assets for a spouse, family goals, and legacy planning.
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Support independence
Home-care and community-based benefits can help eligible policyholders remain in familiar surroundings when appropriate.
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Strengthen the family care plan
Insurance can add professional-care resources that complement the support family members want to provide.
How does it work?
The details vary by policy, but these are the major steps to understand when comparing options.
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Choose benefit design
Select a daily or monthly benefit, benefit duration or pool, inflation option, and other available features.
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Meet the benefit trigger
Many policies use criteria such as needing substantial assistance with specified activities of daily living or qualifying cognitive impairment, subject to the contract.
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Complete the elimination period
A policy may require a set number of qualifying days before benefits begin.
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Use benefits for eligible care
Benefits are paid according to covered settings, provider rules, care-plan requirements, and policy limits.
Who may want to consider it?
The best fit depends on your goals, current coverage, budget, timeline, and the specific policy available to you.
People protecting retirement and legacy assets
LTC coverage may help reduce the amount of personal assets directed toward qualifying extended-care expenses.
Couples planning for each other
A care plan can help protect financial flexibility and caregiving choices for a spouse or partner.
People who value home-care options
Many modern policies include home and community-based benefits that may support aging in place.
People planning before care is needed
Because eligibility and pricing depend in part on age and health, people often explore coverage while they are still able to qualify for favorable options.
Compare thoughtfully
Important features to review
A good insurance decision is easier when you know which contract details deserve attention. We can help you compare these items in plain language.
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Benefit triggers, exclusions, and premium provisionsFrequently asked questions
Use these answers as a starting point, then review the exact carrier policy for the details that apply to your coverage.
What types of care can LTC insurance cover?
Depending on the policy, benefits may include eligible home care, adult day care, assisted living, memory care, nursing facility care, or related support services.
When do benefits become available?
Benefits begin when the insured meets the policy’s eligibility trigger, completes any required elimination period, and satisfies the contract’s documentation requirements.
Why consider coverage before retirement?
Exploring coverage earlier can provide more time to compare benefit designs and may offer more underwriting options, depending on age and health.
Personalized guidance
Would Long-Term Care support your goals?
We can help you review the role this coverage could play, compare available features, and understand the policy details before you decide what fits.
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