Medicare Website Assists in Long Term Care Planning

If you are considering long term care insurance and want to compare it to other ways to pay for long term care, the Medicare website can be a somewhat unbiased resource. Located there is a long term care planning tool that will generate reports on an individualized projection of long term care costs, long term care services available to you and different means of covering the expense. The tool will compare your personal answers to several questions on health, your geographic location, and personal profile to responses from other individuals with similar profiles. This is a very useful tool to give you an idea of how much the possible total costs for long term care may be.

Long Term Care Planning Tool