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Health Care Decisions

Answers for Your Long-Term Care Insurance Questions
This audio presentation features four experts who will guide you through background information, the likelihood that you will need long-term care, whether long-term care insurance is a good option for you and the different features of long-term care insurance. The presentation is available for purchase on either an audiocassette or in audio CD-ROM format.

Is long-term health care part of your financial planning?
Are you concerned about the potential costs of long-term health care when you retire? This fact sheet can help you evaluate your long-term health care options, and make long-term care a part of your financial plan.

Long-Term Care Insurance Terms
Definitions of commonly used insurance terms related to long-term care insurance.

Understanding Insurance Terms
Definitions of commonly used insurance terms.

Will I need long-term health care?
Long-term health care includes services provided either in one's home or at a formal institution like a nursing home. Use this fact sheet to consider how likely you are to need long-term health care services in the future, and to think about your alternatives.

 

 

Reviewed and updated as of December 2006

E-mail: CFEwebsite.uiuc.edu

Consumer and Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign