title: Reverse mortgages: a novel tool for financing long-term health care needs.
abstract: There is growing agreement among policymakers, health care professionals, and the aging industry in general that reverse mortgages can play an important role in financing our nation's long-term health care system, addressing many of our seniors' unmet needs.
authors.affiliation: National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, Washington, DC, USA. dhicks@dworbell.com
authors.forename: Darryl
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hicks
mesh_terms: D005382:Financing, Personal / Q000379:methods*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics*; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States