This paper uses data from the 1999 NLTCS and NHIS surveys to compute Long Term Care (LTC) prevalence rates. We develop several triggers, evaluate a test of cognitive ability, and compute prevalence rates for each trigger. We develop a model to compute LTC incidence rates based on the prevalence data. We find that incidence is a strictly increasing function of age and that there is a sharp increase in incidence rates starting at age ninety.

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Creator

• Simone, Jeffrey Shawn.
• D'Onofrio, Michael David
• Lescoe, James Terrence.
• Twarog, Marek.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05C040M

Advisor

• Abraham, Jon P.
• Heinricher, Arthur C.

Year

• 2005

Sponsor

• John Hancock Life Insurance Company

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science
• Actuarial Mathematics

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-10-03