{"id":881,"date":"2014-05-21T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2014-05-21T07:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:48:27","slug":"an-aging-population-means-an-increasing-need-for-long-term-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/an-aging-population-means-an-increasing-need-for-long-term-care\/","title":{"rendered":"An aging population means an increasing need for long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press recently published more sobering news about the impact that an aging population will have on the need for long-term care.  Government figures show that about 70% of Americans will need some form of long-term care after they reach age 65, yet only 20% of Americans think they will need such care some day.  <\/p>\n<p>However, a recent AP poll of adult Americans found broad support for a range of policy proposals, including adding tax breaks for the purchase of LTC insurance; more access to community services that help the elderly live independently; and some type of government-administered long-term care program.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire May 19, 2014 AP article <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/poll-more-stressful-care-spouse-mom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press recently published more sobering news about the impact that an aging population will have on the need for long-term care. Government figures show that about 70% of Americans will need some form of long-term care after they reach age 65, yet only 20% of Americans think they will need such care some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[52,59,66,69,93,107,117,132],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}