Long Term Care Articles on Marketwatch.com
The following articles are linked to columns at CBS Marketwatch
A call for elder-care planning
Between retirement and estate strategies, a gap that needs filling
Jennifer Openshaw
Till death do you part with your money? Not exactly, these days. We -- and our parents -- live longer and extended-care costs climb. Recently, through the experience of a friend, I became aware of a critical and often-neglected financial challenge -- elder-care planning. 09/2006
Paying for health care in retirement
Robert Powell
Many pre-retirees are seemingly banking on turning the equity in their homes into income. But this week's dramatic drop in home sales combined with a new report that examines older adults and their housing clearly demonstrate that Americans need another plan. 08/2006
'Bag lady' fears haunt about half of women
Survey finds even high-income women worry about losing it all
Andrea Coombes
Even though more women earned incomes topping $100,000 in the last decade, most women said they don't feel financially secure and about half are worried they could become a "bag lady," according to a new study. 08/2006
Choose long term-care insurance carefully
Marshall Loeb
Long-term-care insurance policies aren't simple. Unless you have a history of debilitating disease in your family, you have little idea whether you'll ever need such care and, if you do, what type of care it will be, how long you'll need it or what it will cost a decade or two hence. 07/2006
Retirement planning for singles
Marshall Loeb
Long-term-care insurance policies aren't simple. Unless you have a history of debilitating disease in your family, you have little idea whether you'll ever need such care and, if you do, what type of care it will be, how long you'll need it or what it will cost a decade or two hence. 07/2006
Top 5 tips for buying long term-care insurance
Robert Powell
Searching for and comparing long term-care insurance policies requires nothing short of superhuman effort, AARP says in a new report. 06/2006
No place like home
Will baby boomers tap home equity to survive retirement? Not necessarily
Robert Powell
Ice floe anyone? A 65-year-old couple retiring today will need on average a tidy $200,000 set aside to pay for medical costs in retirement, according to an annual Fidelity Investment study released this week. 03/2006
Rush job
New Medicaid rules will alter long term-care planning
Robert Powell
They call it the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 or DRA for short. But elder care attorneys refer to it by three other names -- DRA-t, DRA-stic and DRA-conian. 01/2006
Long-term care policy checklist
Marshall Loeb
As you live into your golden years, you might never even need to think about long term health care, or assistance in dealing with a chronic illness or disability that leaves you unable to care for yourself.
10/2005
Five ways to talk assisted living with aging parents
Robert Powell
Maybe it is inevitable. Maybe everyone in America will eventually have to check into an assisted-living facility. Or maybe everyone in America will have to coax (coerce?) an aging parent or aging parents to leave their castle for what seems like less-green pastures. 09/2005
Open field for retirement blogs
Few Web logs track issues related to older Americans; top sites
Robert Powell
A blog for this and a blog for that. But alas few blogs for pre-retirees and retirees trying to get a handle on their golden years. 07/2005
