“Pennsylvania Puts LTCI Issuer in Rehabilitation,” by Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor   Quote: “Regulators in Pennsylvania have put a midsize long-term care insurance (LTCI) issuer, Senior Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania (SHIP), in rehabilitation. … The SHIP rehabilitation could be somewhat smaller than the Penn Treaty rehabilitation process.” LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform): Here we go again; Conseco this time.    
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“How to Deal With an Aging Advisor Force and Aging Clients,” by Bernice Napach, ThinkAdvisor   Quote: “More than one-third of financial advisors, or 111,500-plus, will be retiring this decade, along with many of their clients, creating a number of dramatic challenges for the industry. Firms will be faced with retaining the assets of retiring advisors, which account for almost 40% of all advisor assets, managing the shrinking or slower growing assets of existing, aging clients, and attracting newer, younger advisors to help run the business and draw in the heirs of current clients. Nearly $70 trillion in assets is expected
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“The Challenges Facing Japan’s Long-Term Care Services” by Yuki Yasuhiro, Nippon.com   Quote: “Long-term care has a negative image in Japan as a strenuous job that pays comparatively little. Worker turnover is high and care facilities are chronically short-handed. In today’s rapidly aging society, what can be done to improve conditions?” LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform): Sound familiar? Evidently the radical new Japanese government program for long-term care that we profiled 15 years ago has not solved all the country’s LTC challenges. Check out LTC Bullet:  How Japan Escapes “LTC Hell,” November 18, 2005.
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“How the Longevity Project Is Reimagining Our Longer Lives,” by Holly Lawrence, Next Avenue   Quote: “As life expectancies are growing and the 100-year-life is becoming more common, how can Americans, the U.S. government and employers best prepare for the challenges and opportunities of longevity? Meet the Longevity Project, the new initiative designed to come up with some answers. The Longevity Project, developed in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity (its lead content creator), is generating research and engaging in public conversation on the many impacts of longer lives. It just released a poll of 2,200 adults, conducted by Morning
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“Flu more deadly for U.S. seniors than coronavirus, say doctors,” by Alicia Lasek, McKnight’s LTC News   Quote: “The coronavirus currently plaguing China and spreading global fears has been particularly deadly for elderly people with pre-existing health conditions. Yet it is not nearly as menacing as seasonal flu, physician specialists recently told Kaiser Health News. Influenza rarely gets the sort of attention that 2019 Novel Coronavirus is getting, even though it kills more Americans each year than any other virus, the doctors pointed out. Familiarity breeds indifference, one physician reminded the news outlet.” LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for
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