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Similar to Term life insurance, Endowment insurance is also designed to cover the insured person for a specific period of time, however, that s what the similarities end. Endowment is more similar to Whole Life insurance except that an Endowment policy matures faster than Whole Life does.

An Endowment policy lasts for a specific period of time, for example, a 20 Year Endowment or an Endowment at 60 years. All that this means is that the policy will be paid off in that time frame. In a 20-year Endowment all of your premiums would be paid off in 20 years. In an endowment at 60 you only pay life insurance premiums until you re 60 years old, at which time your policy would be paid up in full. This makes Endowment much more expensive than regular Whole life insurance because you re taking an entire lifetime of premiums and compacting them into a short period of time. The shorter the period, the higher your premiums will be.

Endowment policies build cash value much faster than Whole Life pol (more...)

In the state of Florida, almost one quarter of the residents are over the age of 60. Quality long-term care is very important for many of these older Floridians. The Florida Agency of Health Care Administration (AHCA) regulates Health Care Facilities throughout the state and also administers Florida s Medicaid program.

Below are a few of the long term care facilities regulated through AHCA:

Assisted Living Facilities: Provides housing, meals and some personal services for residents. Residents have to meet certain functional criteria and must be ambulatory and able to perform daily living activities like eating and able to care for basic bodily functions. Bed ridden residents are not accepted. Medicaid will pay for such a facility if both the resident and facility are eligible.

Adult Day Care: These are less than 24 hour care facilities. They offer therapeutic programs impaired adults. These centers offer many activities such as exercise, education, health screening and beh (more...)