{"id":22317,"date":"2024-08-15T21:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2024\/08\/15\/long-term-care-costs-emerge-as-a-top-issue-for-older-americans\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:47:27","slug":"long-term-care-costs-emerge-as-a-top-issue-for-older-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/long-term-care-costs-emerge-as-a-top-issue-for-older-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Care Costs Emerge as a Top Issue for Older Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/902927867\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/08\/Senior_Hands_Support_Empathy_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/08\/Senior_Hands_Support_Empathy_Adobe_640x640.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"first-para\">U.S. residents ages 50 and older may be starting to worry more about the cost of long-term care than about the cost of acute health care or health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Ayanian and other University of Michigan researchers raise that possibility in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2822473\">research letter<\/a>, published behind a paywall on the American Medical Association\u2019s JAMA website, which summarizes the results of a recent survey of 3,626 older adults.<\/p>\n<p>When the survey team asked participants whether they were very worried about certain health-related concerns, the \u201ccost of home care, assisted living, nursing home care\u201d ranked first: 56.3% of the survey participants said they were very worried about that issue.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the \u201cvery worried\u201d levels for five other health-related concerns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cost of acute medical care: 56.2%<\/li>\n<li>Cost of prescription medications: 54.3%<\/li>\n<li>Financial scams and fraud: 52.8%<\/li>\n<li>Cost of health insurance and Medicare: 52.1%<\/li>\n<li>Access to quality home care, assisted living, or nursing home care: 38.1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ayanian and his colleagues said they conducted the survey to understand which health-related concerns might have the most relevance to the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo engage older voters, candidates for president and Congress should prioritize communicating their plans for controlling health care costs,\u201d the researchers conclude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Biden administration has emphasized the need to improve the quality of long-term care services by increasing staffing levels at nursing homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. residents ages 50 and older may be starting to worry more about the cost of long-term care than about the cost of acute health care or health insurance. Dr. John Ayanian and other&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/long-term-care-costs-emerge-as-a-top-issue-for-older-americans.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}