This is a Digital Download featuring PowerPoint Slides with Synchronized Audio from the 12th Annual Intercompany Long Term Care Insurance Conference March 2012. Watch the slides while listening to the synchronized audio, exactly as is happened live.

End of Life Care: LTCI Impact - ILTCI2012

Session Description: Many elderly people spend their final days in nursing homes. For them, high-quality end-of-life care is an important component of their overall care. Unfortunately, the Medicare hospice benefit - the primary source of palliative care coverage for Medicare beneficiaries - is a poor fit with the nursing home setting. This sessions explores options for creating a separate end-of-life Medicare benefit and the implications of that for nursing homes, other providers and the LTC insurance industry which provides a hospice care benefit to coordinate with Medicare.

Session Speakers: David Stevenson, PhD  Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Gretchen Alkema Vice President, Policy and Communications, The SCAN Foundation Dr. Stephen Holland Cheif Medical Officer, Univita