Article: Adult children's information deficiencies and risk aversion regarding LTCI purchase for elderly parents: a multi case study Journal: International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies (IJTCS) 2015 Vol.6 No.1 pp.20 - 34 Abstract: Long-term care is the greatest uninsured risk facing the American public today. The failure to plan for long-term care has had a serious, and often devastating, impact on families that are thrust into the role of caregiver to an elderly parent. The failure to plan for long-term care also has very serious consequences for society, which, through public programs such as Medicaid, pays for a huge and unsustainable portion of long-term care supports and services. The impact of the failure to plan for long-term care is becoming more devastating due to the confluence of several factors. People are living longer now than ever before thereby increasing the demand for long-term care services and supports, with the population of senior citizens expected to more than double in the near future. There are far fewer family caregivers available to provide care to elderly parents as a result of lower birth rates, later marriages, and the rapid increase of women participating in the workforce, reducing the available pool of family caregivers. Understanding the dynamics of long-term care planning, and the failure to plan for long-term care, is a necessary step in successfully addressing long-term care planning. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Adult children's information deficiencies and risk aversion regarding LTCI purchase for elderly parents: a multi case study

Authors: Samuel Miller

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Abstract: Long-term care is the greatest uninsured risk facing the American public today. The failure to plan for long-term care has had a serious, and often devastating, impact on families that are thrust into the role of caregiver to an elderly parent. The failure to plan for long-term care also has very serious consequences for society, which, through public programs such as Medicaid, pays for a huge and unsustainable portion of long-term care supports and services. The impact of the failure to plan for long-term care is becoming more devastating due to the confluence of several factors. People are living longer now than ever before thereby increasing the demand for long-term care services and supports, with the population of senior citizens expected to more than double in the near future. There are far fewer family caregivers available to provide care to elderly parents as a result of lower birth rates, later marriages, and the rapid increase of women participating in the workforce, reducing the available pool of family caregivers. Understanding the dynamics of long-term care planning, and the failure to plan for long-term care, is a necessary step in successfully addressing long-term care planning.

Keywords: long-term care; LTC; daily living activities; Medicaid; family caregivers; dependents; risk aversion; longevity; burden; cognitive impairment; adult children; information deficiencies; long-term care insurance; LTCI; elderly parents; USA; United States; care services; senior citizens; care planning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2015.069762

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 2015 Vol.6 No.1, pp.20 - 34

Received: 09 Dec 2014
Accepted: 02 Jan 2015
Published online: 09 Jun 2015 *

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