LTCI Watch: Remember the Bus

Non-elderly Americans — and the non-elderly people of the entire world — are just starting to get a inkling of the challenges, and the joys, we'll face as a result of the fact that huge numbers of people will get to live into their 80s, 90s and possibly beyond.

We'll get more people who get to see great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, take their first steps.

We'll see more children who get to grow up hearing first-hand accounts of what life was like a long, long time ago. Some children born in the 2050s may get to sit on the laps of people old enough to remember watching cartoons flicker across the screens of the first television sets.

And we may have a lot more people who need some help to get by, or a lot of help.

As Somers says, "A failure to plan is a plan to fail."

And the kind of serious planning that Somers' bus was promoting could lead to the kind of ordinary, humdrum, comfortable days that make the difficult effort to sell the product to the right people at the right time worthwhile.

See also:

• LTCI Watch: CO-OPs
• LTCI Watch: Claims
• LTCI Watch: Cyprus