Long Term Care
The New York Times, June 24 2008Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60.
Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65.
Fact: The number of people over 100 doubles every decade.
Fact: As they age, people lose muscle mass
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The Boston Globe, June 26, 2008A 65-year-old couple needs $85,000 on average to cover
insurance costs for long-term care such as nursing home stays in
retirement, according to a study to be released Thursday by Fidelity
Investments.
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The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2008In the spring of 2001, Bill Thomas, dressed in his usual sweat shirt
and Birkenstock sandals, entered the buttoned-down halls of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. His message: Nursing homes need to be taken
out
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The New York Times, June 4th, 2008Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human
lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give
impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.
The study is based on
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New York Times, May 25th, 2008First thing every morning, Lynn Pitet, of Cody, Wyo., checks her
computer to see whether her mother, Helen Trost, has gotten out of bed,
taken her medication and whether she is moving around inside her house
hundreds of
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NYTimes, May 3rd, 2008
When David Bunnell, a magazine publisher who lives in Berkeley, Calif., went to a FedEx store to send a package a few years ago, he suddenly drew a blank as he was filling out the forms.
“I couldn’t remember my address,” said
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NYTimes, May 5th, 2008
Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fast-paced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages less aggressive — and less costly —
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Yahoo News, April 14th, 2008Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for
seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage
them from getting quality care.
"We face an impending crisis as the growing number
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US News & World Report, March 27th, 2008Older Americans are living longer than ever and enjoying better health and financial security, a new report finds.
Yet there continue to be lingering disparities between racial and ethnic groups.
In 2006,
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The New York Times, March 23rd, 2008New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in
life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth
of income inequality in the last two decades.
Life expectancy for the nation
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Yahoo News, March 5th, 2008A couple retiring this year will need about $225,000 in savings to
cover medical costs in retirement, according to a study released
Wednesday by Fidelity Investments.The figure, calculated for a couple age 65, is up 4.7 percent
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The New York Times, February 19th, 2008Living past 90, and living well, may be more than a matter of good
genes and good luck. Five behaviors in elderly men are associated not
only with living into extreme old age, a new study has found, but also
with
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WTRF-7, December 13th, 2007 Insurance that covers long-term care is not yet widely held in West
Virginia. But with health care costs continually rising, more and more
people in the state and nation are taking a look.
"It's probably growing" as more
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The Wall Street Journal, November 15th, 2007So you've got a long-term-care policy. Congratulations. Now consider dumping it.
One of the biggest knocks on long-term-care insurance
-- which pays for costs such as assisted living, nursing homes and home
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Philadelphia.com, October 15th, 2007Suze Orman, in her book The Road to Wealth,
points out that odds of your home burning down are 1 in 1200, your auto
being totaled 1 in 248, but your chances of needing long-term care are 1 in 2. It is ironic that
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