Increased Long-Term Care Insurance Sales Will Benefit Home Care Providers Reports AALTCI

Los Angeles, CA, November 22, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The nation's providers of home health care aides and services can expect significantly increased revenue as a result of growing sales of long-term care insurance products.

"We expect 300,000 Americans will purchase a new traditional long-term care insurance policy or a combo product in 2015," predicts Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (www.AALTCI.org). "The maximum potential benefit value for just 2015 new sales will equate to about $5 billion in future benefit payments for home care services."

Some eight million Americans currently possess some form of long-term care (LTC) benefit and while sales of traditional LTC insurance products have declined in recent years, Slome notes that sales of life insurance and annuity policies that offer long-term care benefits are increasing. "For the first time, we project annual sales of the newer options will equal and quite possibly surpass sales of traditional long-term care insurance policies."

The Association estimates the total maximum potential benefit value to all current holders of long-term care insurance policies will approach $2 Trillion (2014 dollars). The nation's insurers paid out $7.5 Billion in benefits in 2013 according to an AALTCI report. "By 2032, insurers expect to pay out in excess of $34 billion as today's 60-year old policyholder reach their 80s," Slome notes.

Home health care providers and agencies will be among the leading beneficiaries according to AALTCI analysis. "Of the billions paid out each year, nearly 30 percent currently pays for home care services," Slome notes. "That percentage will grow significantly in the years ahead." The most recent Association analysis found that 51 percent of all newly opened claims in 2013 paid for home care services.

"The number of Americans requiring help with daily living at home is expected to more than double from the current 12 million to 27 million by 2050," explains Margaret Haynes, Chief Operating Officer of Right at Home an international franchise organization.

"People want to remain in their own home when care is needed," Slome adds. "As millions of Americans live into their 70s, 80s and beyond, long-term care policies will enable millions to receive the care they need in the setting they prefer."