FYI: The figures are bracing: About half of people turning age 65 will require some type of long-term care in their lifetimes. Women will need 2.5 years of care, on average, while males will need an average of 1.5 years. The cost of nursing-home care in a private room passed the $100,000/year mark in 2018, and in major urban areas, the cost of care runs even higher than that.
Yet despite those daunting figures--or possibly because of them--many people delay installing a long-term-care plan. In a 2013 survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 65% of respondents age 40 or older said they had done little to no planning for their own long-term-care needs.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/932642/an-action-plan-for-longterm-care.html
