Guarding Against Disability and Long-Term Illness
70 percent of the population over the age of 65 will need some sort of long-term care.In middle-age many people look toward retirement and start investing in ways they hope will reward and support them as they grow older. If prudent investments are made, retirement may be a smooth transiiton, with assets that can help support them, and possibly even leave an inheritance for their children and grandchildren.
All too often, however, fate intervenes with a long-term illness or disability. It happens more often than any of us would like to admit—in fact, a recent study* found that 70 percent