Archive: Leora Friedberg
The brief’s key findings are: Long-term care is expensive, but only 13 percent of single individuals over 65 have long-term care insurance. Previous models of care usage appear to understate the risk of going into care and overstate the duration of care for those who require it. If long-term care is a more likely, but…
Abstract The expectation of needing long-term care is an essential input into optimal saving and long-term care insurance decisions. Previous optimization models have used the Robinson (2002) transition probabilities, which have not been systematically updated and which underpredict the use of care while overpredicting the average stay of people who enter care. We develop a…
