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Many people are unwilling to purchase long-term care insurance (LTCI) until much later in life, in their 80s rather than in their 50s, say but a host of recent articles have been turning up in everything from senior care trade publications to small local dailies, which touch on the subject of the LTCI industry trying to welcome the burgeoning senior baby boomer market. LTCI is an idea many do not want to entertain, and yet aging and long-term care always will be an issue.

So What Is To Be Done?  There are some who speculate that it is actually in the insurance companie’s favor to have these premium payments rolling in. But to them we would like to point out that even with that being salient, LTCI; although possibly in wolf’s clothing, is still a sheep, because the consumer will pay less if insurance is purchased when they are still young and (hopefully) healthy.

The question now is when should you start looking into your LTCI options?  Over time, a LTCI recipient actually pays less;not just incrementally, but as a whole, because the premium is not only based on the age at which you buy,. it is typically locked in from the beginning. Here’s an example from an upcoming article by Gilbert Guide;s CEO, Jill Gilbert, in Active over 50 magazine:  If a healthy 55-year-old woman purchases an LTCI policy at about $1,500 a year, by the time she is 85, she she will have spent $45,000 for thirty years of coverage. However, for the same policy, a 65-year-old woman pays around $2,800 annually, which means that she pays $56,000 for twenty years of coverage, a marked increase.

Waiting to buy an identical policy at 75 increases the annual cost to about $7,500; this actually means that the oldest policyholder in this comparison ends up paying $75,000 for only ten years of coverage;a whopping 400% increase from the 55-year-old woman! Would you like to find out how long-term care insurance can help you out? Get a free long-term care insurance consultation and quote.