Linking Reverse Mortgages and Long-Term Care Insurance
A great study from the Brookings Institute entitled, Linking Reverse Mortgages and Long-Term Care Insurance was released and is a great read for understanding general relationships between two of the most talked about topics in the baby boomer community.
Snapshot:
As the retirement of the baby boom generation approaches, policy makers are considering ways to better prepare seniors for their retirement and long-term care needs. One idea that has received recent attention is linking reverse mortgages to the purchase of private long-term care insurance. Regulations to implement legislation passed in 2000 encouraging this linkage are expected to be released in the spring of 2004. This issue brief explains the fundamentals of reverse mortgages and long-term care insurance and outlines the opportunities and challenges with the linkage.
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Written by charles dennis on July 18th, 2007 with
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