Long Term Care

Age UK has urged insurers to produce new financial insurance products to support the reform of the long-term care system.

Ranking people in affordability terms for long term care (LTC) would open the market to insurers actuaries have been told.

Long term care needs cannot be assessed by an estimation of meeting costs the International Longevity Centre (ILC) has said.

Long term care (LTC) insurance products will remain niche in spite of a growing need unless people are forced to buy them, the OECD said.

Late last year we saw potential for a resurgence of interest from insurers into long-term care funding. Peter Barnett looks at what's happened since then

The nation's care system will become overwhelmed in the future unless major investment is introduced by the government, according to new research.

The Law Commission has released a recommendation for a statute and code of practice to pave the way for a coherent social care system.

Long-term care (LTC) has always been in the ‘too difficult' box, as successive government reviews and think tanks have advocated varying roles for the private insurance sector.

Birmingham Council's raising eligibility thresholds for adult care to "critical" have been judged unlawful.

This week the Strategic Society Centre put out a proposal for a National Care Fund to fund the personal care of older people, which could be administered and underwritten by the private sector.