Top 5 Reasons for Long Term Care Insurance

Planning for long term care is an easy thing to put off. Maybe you think you’re too young, can’t afford it or simply won’t need it. But if you want to help preserve your choices about future care and have retirement assets and personal savings to protect then, long term care insurance could be the right vehicle for you. Here are 5 logical and emotional reasons why it may make sense for you:

1. To enable you to stay in your home for a longer period of time—comprehensive long term care insurance offers you the option of staying in your own home for as long as possible which helps to preserve.

2. To gain access to a professional care coordinator in a time of crisis. A professional can help you, and your family, coordinate your long term care needs, which may include locating services to help with a particular illness, injury or condition.

3. To relieve the burden of care from your loved ones.

4. To help leave your assets to your family, friends or charity-long term care services are expensive and, without proper planning, can quickly use up a lifetime of savings.

5. To stay with children without depending on them for care-long term care insurance may make it possible for a parent to stay in a child’s home without being dependent on him or her.

 

About Paul Nichols

Paul is the founder of Financial Abundance, a Registered Investor Advisory firm and EDI, an Estate Planning Firm with offices in State College and Lewisburg. He has been working with individuals, families and businesses for over twenty years, including many Fortune 500 companies. He has educated tens of thousands of people through seminars, workshops and various international speaking engagements where he shared the stage with many notable individuals such as Ronald Reagan, Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Mike Ditka, General Schwarzkopf, and Newt Gingrich to name a few.

In 2000, after many years of traveling to consult companies and individuals, Paul decided to relocate from Colorado to State College, PA (his wife’s hometown) to develop a local advisory firm.

Paul operates under the core belief that education plus understanding leads to clarity and confidence; resulting in peace of mind. He is a proud father of three and devoted husband of 20 plus years.

Some of Paul’s accomplishments:
Regular contributor to the Centre Daily Times, via the “It’s Your Money” blog
Featured in the movie Navigating the Fog of Investing
Regular contributor to Town & Gown as the publications Investor Coach
Host of the weekly iTunes Podcast, It’s Your Money
Member of the Western PA Better Business Bureau
Member of the Centre County Chamber of Business and Industry