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Caregiver Support Services

Caregiver Support Services for the people you care about the most - Whether due to an accident, an illness, or the normal aging process, the needs for long-term care can occur at anytime impacting not only the person needing care, but the entire family. Caregiver Support Services takes valuable support services normally available only to policyholders and extends them to your uncovered family members.

Learn more about how to help ensure that your loved one gets the quality of care that he or she needs. This seminar will brief you on the how Caregiver Support Services provides you and your family members with free access to care planning and advice, discounts, and helpful information.

Please RSVP to info@connecticutlife.org to show your interest in this event.

What Do You Know About Long-Term Care?

What do you know about Long-Term Care? Attend our event and find out! For prep work, take our Long-Term Care Quiz below. Mark your responses for each of the 10 statements as True, False or Don't Know.

1. Disability insurance and long-term care (LTC) insurance cover the same things.
2. The average lifetime chance of needing long-term care for an individual 65 years or older is more than 40%.
3. People have to spend all or almost all of their assets to get Medicaid benefits.
4. Medicare is not the primary funding source for most seniors' long-term care costs.
5. Most long-term care is provided in a nursing home.
6. Medicaid covers long-term care services received at home.
7. Nursing home expenses for Alzheimer's Disease patients are covered by Medicare.
8. The average length of stay in a nursing home is more than four years.
9. Nearly 40% of the long-term care population is under the age of 65.
10. On average, a one-year stay in a nursing home costs about $30,000.

Please contact us at info@connecticutlife.org to attend this session or to receive the correct answers to the above 10 statements on LTC.

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