Tag: LTSS
The brief’s key findings are: Many retirees are concerned about the risk of requiring substantial long-term care as they age, but the likelihood is unclear. This analysis, using two decades of data from the Health and Retirement Study, classifies the severity of care needs, accounting for both intensity and duration. The results suggest about one-fift…
Should Medicare long-term expenditures be included or not? Finding a way to pay for long-term care is one of the major challenges for achieving security in retirement. As long as people are fearful that they will need their money to cover long-term care needs toward the end of life, they will be reluctant to draw…
