Medicare is launching a pilot program to determine whether relaxing its payment rules can help patients who require nursing home care after a hospital stay. . .

The point of buying long-term care insurance is so you don't have to worry how to pay for a nursing home (or other types of long-term care). . .

This ruling could have a profund impact on the lives of Medicare beneficiaries who need the care of a skilled professional . . .  ...

The final budget deal Congress passed to avert the “fiscal cliff” repeals a long-term care insurance program that would have helped keep the elderly and disabled out of nursing homes and off the Medicaid rolls.  In its place, the budget...

A 55-year-old single individual can expect to pay $2,065 annually for $162,000 in current long-term care insurance benefits, according to the 2013 Long-Term Care Insurance Price Index, an annual report from the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, an industry group. ...

Long-term care insurance will soon be getting more expensive for women.

Because all long-term care insurance policies are not the same, we have prepared this guide for helping you understand long-term care insurance and obtain the coverage that best fits your individual needs.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in Oregon against Bankers Life and Casualty Co., charging that the long-term care insurer is guilty of elder abuse in denying and delaying payment of insurance claims.

Long-term care is expensive and only getting more so. That is why everyone needs to consider buying long-term care insurance, according to this book that explains exactly how long-term care insurance works and why it should part of any financial...