We first ran this article Nov. 20, 2012. It will probably still be equally important on Nov. 20, 2102, when the babies at today's holiday tables are getting up in years.
The season starting with Thanksgiving and lasting until New Year's has become America's unofficial Long-Term Care Need Assessment Period.
Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (AALTCI), has put out a guide to assessing the well-being of parents and other older relatives that could be useful both to consumers and their retirement and LTCI advisors.