title: Problems with private long-term care insurance: nurses can help protect consumers.
abstract: Nurses are in an excellent position to provide unbiased information to consumers about long-term care insurance. Many policies have serious shortcomings. Support from nurses could help ensure better legislative regulation of the long-term care insurance field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Reif
mesh_terms: D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D007353:Insurance, Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D009726:Nurses; D014481:United States