Actuaries to Study How COVID-19 Affects Patients' Spouses

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Actuaries to Study How COVID-19 Affects Patients' Spouses | ThinkAdvisor

What You Need to Know

• The death of a spouse triples the odds the other spouse will need long-term care in the next year.
• A long-term care claim for a spouse quadruples the odds the other spouse will soon need care.
• Use of facility-based care does more than use of home care to have an immediate effect on the other spouse's level of risk.