Long Term Care…Did you know?

Did You Know…

• At least 70% of people over 65 will need long term care services and supports at some point in their lives.
  (Source: 2016 Medicare & You, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
• About 68% of nursing home residents and 72% of assisted living residents are women.
  (Source: Long-Term care Services in the United States: 2013 Overview, National Center for Health Statistics)
• The national median daily rate in 2015 for a private room in a nursing home was $250, an increase of 4.17% from 2014.
  (Source: Genworth 2015 Cost of Care Survey, March 2015)
• The average length of a nursing home stay is 835 days.
  (Source: CDC Vital and Health Statistics, Series 13, No. 167, June 2009)
• At a median daily rate of $250, an average nursing home stay of 835 days currently costs over $208,000, making it virtually unaffordable for many Americans.
• Medicare does not pay for long-term care services, as explained by the Social Security Administration:
  

  “About Social Security and Medicare… Social Security pays retirement, disability, family and survivors benefits. Medicare, a separate program run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, helps pay for inpatient hospital care, nursing care, doctors’ fees, drugs, and other medical services and supplies to people age 65 and older, as well as to people who have been receiving Social Security disability benefits for two years or more. Medicare does not pay for long-term care, so you may want to consider options for private insurance (emphasis added).”