Long-Term Care Insurance Plans

Plan for Your Family's Financial Future with Long-Term Care Insurance

Do I Need Long-Term Care Insurance? 

Long-term care insurance plans provide medical care and other services to patients who require care in their own home or in a long-term care facility.  Because people are living longer, they are requiring expensive assistance in their later years. Long-term healthcare services can be provided in your home, in an adult day care, in an assisted living facility or in a nursing facility. Planning for the emotional and financial burden that results when you require assistance is an essential component of retirement planning. Some people can pay the bill out of pocket while others qualify for Medicaid (welfare), but most of us will fall somewhere in the middle.

We have worked hard all our lives – planning for the future will provide you with the stress-free, rewarding later years you deserve. Long-term care insurance plans can help protect your assets from the rising cost of care, allowing you to remain financially and socially independent. Long-term care insurance plans can help your family create a strategy for its financial future.

Why Should Your Company Care About Long-Term Care Insurance Plans?

• Business and Personal tax advantages that are unique to Long-Term Care Insurance.  An employee caregiver can cost his or her employer $2,500 or more per year.
• Key employee carve out options
• Strengthen executive benefit package
• Group discounts
• Additional discounts based on health and marital status
• Discounts extended to employees and family members
• Plan and discounts are completely portable
• The average age of people who buy long term care insurance plans at work was 43 in 1999. (HIAA, 2002) 
• 40% of those requiring Long-Term Care are working adults age 18-64. (HCFA Office of the Actuary: Data from National Health Statistics, 1997)

Long-term care insurance represents an affordable employee benefit for your business. For additional information on long-term care insurance plans, or to get a free long-term care quote, please submit our quote request form to the right or call the Eaton & Berube office nearest to you.