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Short-Term Care Insurance, an option to LTC?

Quick Facts and Stats: About 7 out of 10 people will require long-term care at some point in their lives. The average cost of in-home care is around $5,000 per month, while a private room in a nursing home can cost $120,000 per year.  Medicare’s coverage is...

2018 LTC Awareness Month

For 30 years, Shields Brokerage has been committed to providing products, marketing and sales support to producers in the LTC marketplace, and it’s paying off! We are receiving calls from our producers who have seen the value of a LTC policy in action for their...

LTC Awareness Month

              How will your clients pay for LTC services? People work a lifetime to accumulate assets to see them through retirement. Unfortunately, relying on those assets to fund long-term care services may mean: Selling stocks or...

Long Term Care Impacts the Whole Family

In this Blog for the Portland Press Herald, Chris Orestis, CEO of Life Care Funding, discusses the impact on the entire family of long term care for a loved one.  Do you know how to recognize the THREE SIGNS that someone needs long term care? Do you know what an ADL...