Long Term Care

The proposed merger between Just Retirement and Partnership has been put on hold subject to meeting Solvency II requirements and is expected in January.

Partnership is planning to launch a medically underwritten immediate needs annuity in the US.

Seven Families will hold a social media based action day on 29 October 2015, to raise awareness of the financial impact of long term ill health.

The health and social care system is under severe stress, due to a lack of high quality social care which saps the resilience of NHS services and patients, Age UK has warned in a new report.

COVER Magazine has launched a new mobile ‘live' app that continually updates with all of our articles they are published online.

Deepak Jobanputra explains what advisers need to know about the ageing population

Unum has added AgeingWorks, an online portal for elder care support and guidance, to all its group risk policies.

The delay to the introduction of the care cap represents a ‘golden opportunity' for advisers, Symponia has said.

Social care budget reductions could lead to rising levels of unmet need a white paper from the International Longevity Centre-UK's Centre for Later Life funding has warned.

Two-thirds (66%) of advisers have said their clients are 'concerned' about the potential cost of funding long-term care, according to a survey by Blackrock.