“A Middle-Market Senior Care Solution,” by Bruce Stahl and Winona Berdine, Long-Term Care News   Quote:    “A debt-free retirement has been the ideal scenario for so long that older adults often overlook a valuable financial resource: their home. Collectively, homeowners age 62 and older have a record $6.5 trillion of ‘tappable’ equity, according to data analytics firm Black Knight. Individually, home equity accounts for more than a quarter to almost half of the median net worth of retirees, depending on age, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. … For instance, the money can be used for some laudable goals: to pay
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“A Middle-Market Senior Care Solution,” by Bruce Stahl and Winona Berdine, Long-Term Care News   Quote:   “Would you like to have an insurance product in your company’s lineup that provides all of the following? • Reaches the middle market, • provides security to generations of family members, • satisfies real customer financial needs and provides them with peace of mind, • minimizes risk in the morbidity tail, • reduces asset and interest rate risk, and • reduces concerns about pandemic risk in facilities.”   LTC Comment: Well, yeah! Click through to read this intriguing proposal.  
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“Does Hard Work Help Preserve the Brain?,” by Cara Murez, HealthDay   Quote:  : “Physical activity is known to help prevent dementia and disease, but it’s possible that the kind you do makes a difference. A new study found that hard physical work not only doesn’t lower the risk of dementia, it increases the risk of developing the disease. Researchers found that people who do hard physical work have a 55 percent higher risk of developing dementia than those doing sedentary work.”   LTC Comment:   Let’s hear it for desk work!  
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“Integrity Expands in the Southwestern United States with the Addition of Western Asset Protection,” Integrity Marketing Group   Quote:  : “Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (‘Integrity’), the nation’s largest independent distributor of life and health insurance products today announced it has acquired Western Asset Protection, a family-owned Insurance Marketing Organization (‘IMO’) with an industry-leading focus on service and agent retention. As part of the acquisition, Western Asset Protection’s leadership team Mel Rose, Chairman, and Paul Rose, President, will both become owners in Integrity. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.”   LTC Comment:   Warm and hearty congratulations to Mel, Paul, and their
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