Phyllis Shelton

Phyllis Shelton is the President of LTC Consultants, a Nashville-based company that she founded in 1991 specializing in long-term care insurance sales training, consumer education and marketing materials. She is widely considered to be the leading long-term care insurance sales trainer in the country. Now her heart goes out to anyone who doesn't have a local insurance professional to help them consider long-term care insurance, and she is willing to be a resource for those people, or their financial advisors.

Most commented posts

  1. Your Customized Benefit Selection Process — 44 comments
  2. What happens if a LTC insurer goes out of business? How common does this happen? — 43 comments
  3. How much does long-term care insurance cost? (rate calculator for sample plan) — 36 comments
  4. The Secret Medicare Plan that No One Tells You About — 35 comments
  5. Welcome SUZE ORMAN and TERRY SAVAGE Readers and Everyone Else! — 35 comments

Author's posts

Forever and Ever Amen

My last article “Goodbye in Her (or His) Eyes” was a little hard to read as it discussed situations in which a healthy spouse doesn’t stick around when the other spouse needs long-term care…either by choice or by death. Just a few days after it was published, I heard from an agent who has been …

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Goodbye in Her (or His) Eyes

We all know the timeless wedding vows and most of us have spoken them. When caregiving becomes 24/7, sometimes these vows are broken. An awful thought, you say?

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Planning for Long-Term Care is Gentle On My Mind

Glen Campbell is now a permanent member of the ranks of Alzheimer’s victims. The first music artist to make #1 on the country and contemporary charts at the same time, he is Stage 6 now and sometimes requires two caregivers to be sure he is safe.

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Long-Term Care is All About the Family…Not the Bass

People worry more about being a burden on their kids when it comes to long-term care than they do about the exorbitant financial cost of extended health care.

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Seeking Solutions with Suzanne

Suzanne sits down with Phyllis Shelton, President of LTC Consultants and author of “Protecting Your Family with Long-Term Care Insurance” to discuss long-term care. Long-term care is provided when people need help getting through the day. It can become necessary for many reasons including strokes, MS, Parkinson’s and accidents. Often, it is the only thing …

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Mothers Don’t Let Your Daughters Grow Up To Be Caregivers

Without a plan, millions of daughters will be thrust into providing care for an aging parent, at great emotional, mental and physical cost, a much greater toll than financial.

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Should You Accept an 85% Rate Increase?

As horrendous as an 85% rate increase sounds, it becomes not so horrendous when you analyze it. Here’s a case study along with my advice.

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The Biggest Retirement Concerns – Do You Agree?

What are your biggest retirement concerns? Do you agree with this survey?

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I Thought My Husband Would NEVER Use His LTC Insurance

There are no guarantees in life. I just heard from a grateful client who is so glad her husband bought LTC insurance.

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Long-Term Care Insurance is Productivity Insurance

A tidal wave of caregiving is about to hit U.S. employers as the fastest growing segment of the workforce is age 55 and up, employees who are in their prime caregiving years. Just under half (49%) of the workforce expects to provide care to a family member or friend in the next five years. Do …

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