Tag: senior healthcare
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Social insurance can’t work with participation on a voluntary basis. Providing long-term care is one of the biggest challenges facing an aging society. According to our calculations, about one-quarter of retirees are likely to experience the type of severe long-term care needs that most people dread (high-intensity care for more than three years) and over…
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The good news is that most – albeit not all – care needs will be met by a combination of family care, financial resources, and Medicaid We have just completed the third study in our three-part series on the needs and resources available for long-term care. This issue is really important because many late-career workers…