CVN Health - The average cost of nursing home care in the US is currently about $56,000 per year. While the cost of health care varies with location and service level, in certain areas of the country it is as high as $100,000 per year. The average length of a stay in a long-term care facility is 3.1 years, so this comes to an average cost of between $170,000 and $310,000.

In fact the costs can sometimes be worse than that, because a nursing home stay usually only comes after a person has received home health care services for a considerable amount of time. This means that your resources will have been severely taxed even before dedicated long term care is needed.

The cost of long term care continues to rise more rapidly than ever. That makes it even more important to for people to think about long term health care. Long term health care insurance is a vital service when you realize the facts, and that makes this one of the best insurance jobs currently available.