{"id":779,"date":"2021-06-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2021-06-05T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:54:39","slug":"who-is-a-good-candidate-for-long-term-care-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/who-is-a-good-candidate-for-long-term-care-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is a good candidate for long term care insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term care insurance offers a sense of security. Statistically speaking, it is likely you will need some sort of long-term care in your lifetime, 52% of people will.&nbsp;Long-term care involves different types of care. It can be assistance at home or in a facility. In&nbsp;Lakewood, CO, Colling Insurance Services&nbsp;Inc. will help you to customize your insurance coverage. We will work hard to provide you with all the information you need to make an educated decision.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute on Aging long-term care provides services that meet a person&#8217;s personal or health care needs. It can be for a short period&nbsp;or a long time. The aim is to help people live as safely and independently as possible when they can&#8217;t perform ADLs (activities of daily living) on their own.&nbsp;Home-based care is the&nbsp;most common&nbsp;type.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Determining who is a good candidate for long-term care insurance depends on several factors. The two most important factors are wealth and health. In order to get and benefit from a long-term care policy you need to be able to afford it, and you can&#8217;t have certain pre-existing conditions. There is a saying &quot;your money pays for long-term care insurance, but it is your health that buys it&quot;. The best time to buy this insurance is between 60 and 65 years old&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Long-term care insurance is expensive, there is just no way around it and the cost will rise as you get older. Compared to the cost of long-term care, it is a lot less expensive.&nbsp;You need to apply for this insurance while you are still healthy. Almost any serious illness will disqualify you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colling Insurance Services&nbsp;Inc. in Lakewood,&nbsp;CO has a team of experts who can guide you as long for long-term care insurance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term care insurance offers a sense of security. Statistically speaking, it is likely you will need some sort of long-term care in your lifetime, 52% of people will.&nbsp;Long-term care involves different types of care. It can be assistance at home or in a facility. In&nbsp;Lakewood, CO, Colling Insurance Services&nbsp;Inc. will help you to customize your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[470,514,516],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance","tag-colling-insurance-services","tag-inc","tag-lakewood-co"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.collinginsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}