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Saturday, March 17, 2007


Long-Term Care: Who Needs It? Why Care?
Who needs long-term care? You might, if you live long enough. Current projections are that half of all people who reach 85 years old will require long-term care. Note that the "old old" (80+ years, if I recall correctly) are one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population.

If you're decades, even six or more decades from then, you'll have some interest in long-term care, if for no other reason that your tax dollars are going to pay for the LTC. The demand for taxpayer funding of LTC will only go up with time.

Stephen Moses, of the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, Inc., has assembled a resource list of speeches and reports on the topic.

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