Long-Term Care coverage is a wise choice for most adults, especially someone with a family. With improved health care, many more people are living well into old age. Yet, as people survive heart attacks, strokes and chronic illnesses, they may also require higher levels of care. Given the rising cost of nursing home care, the total LTC insurance premiums paid over a period of 20 or 30 years can be less than the cost of one year in a nursing home.
Last year, the average cost of a nursing home was $167 a day. Home healthcare aides run about $23 an hour in Texas. Assisted living facilities average $2500 a month or $30,300 a year. Numbers like these can derail the best-laid retirement plans. (Genworth Financial Cost of Care Survey, May 2005)
According to the Health Insurance Association of America more than 50% of Americans are expected to need some form of long term care, either home care or institutional care, at some point in their lives. Today's elders never expected to live so long and didn't plan for those expenses.
Private Long-Term Care insurance is an economical way to help protect your savings and assets, and provide you with many Long-Term Care options. With a Long-Term Care insurance plan to help you pay for your Long-Term Care services you may avoid exhausting your retirement assets or family's savings. It also gives you choices by enabling services to be administered in a variety of settings, from home health care to assisted living centers/residential care facilities to nursing homes. Long-Term Care insurance helps to promote independent living during your life.
How can Long-Term Care insurance protect you? For more information or to receive quotes for LTC coverage, please call or send an email.