The health care system that deals with long term care is already stressed by current requirements.  A report released today by the Washington Post predicts that 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer’s, requiring a serious look at long term care, long term care insurance, and the nation’s health care system in general.  The report, released Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association, showed that the disease is now the seventh deadliest in the nation and that women are at greater risk than men.

With one in eight boomers developing Alzheimer’s as they age, there is a serious need now, more than ever, to look into long-term care insurance to pay for the long stay often required when the mind-wasting disease strikes.  We wrote about how you can stretch a policy and now may be a good time to revisit that article.  Alzheimer’s patients can have long-term care stays of as long as many years, going way beyond the 3-5 years typically associated with other ailments that activate long-term care benefits.

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