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When families avoid discussing long-term care insurance planning

My adult children think I'm being paranoid about long-term care insurance but I watched my mother drain her savings in a nursing home and I refuse to do that to them. We can't have a real conversation about this because they won't engage with the possibility that I might need care someday.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generations are struggling to bridge different relationships with aging and financial burden, using insurance decisions to avoid confronting mortality and dependency.

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