Several years ago, Dr. Barbara Stucki, a Bend, Oregon, researcher and consultant, completed a study on reverse mortgages for the National Council on Aging. Stucki found one potential approach could be to create a system that more effectively manages long-term care funding for community-based options. One component of the model would be to offer incentives to encourage greater use of reverse mortgages among impaired elders. Read more…
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