{"id":24606,"date":"2025-07-07T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24606"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:56:58","slug":"americans-underestimate-the-cost-of-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24606","title":{"rendered":"Americans underestimate the cost of long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Medicare and most health insurance, including Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap), don\u2019t pay for long-term care. This type of care (also called \u201ccustodial care\u201d or \u201clong-term services and support\u201d) includes medical and non-medical care for people who have a chronic illness or disability. According to a recent study, more than 80 percent of Americans will need that type of help at some point in their lives. Daniel de Vise, writing for USA Today, discusses how many older Americans underestimate long-term care as a retirement risk and what they can possibly do to mitigate the costs. Read Mr. de Vise\u2019s article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Medicare and most health insurance, including Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap), don\u2019t pay for long-term care. This type of care (also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,21,45,6],"tags":[238,1177,61,94],"class_list":["post-24606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-health-care-finance","category-ltc","category-medicare-general","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-ltc","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24607,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24606\/revisions\/24607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}