Benefits
CalPERS Long Term Care
All California public employees, their spouses, parents, parents-in-law, and adult siblings are eligible to apply for this valuable coverage. The program accepts applications for those eligible between the ages of 18-79.
- Long term care plans cover certain services provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital, such as a nursing home, residential care facility, and adult day care center or in the home, according to the plan selected.
- A person requires long term care when they need help with two or more of the six Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring (moving in and out of a bed, chair or wheelchair), eating or continence.
- Three plans to choose from: (a) comprehensive, (b) facilities only, and (c) partnership. See CalPERS Plans At A Glance
for a comparison among the options.
- Offered to all CalPERS employees, spouses, parents, parents-in-law and siblings.
- Entirely employee-paid.
- Contact the CalPERS Long-Term Care Program at 800-338-2244 or see CalPERS Long Term Care Plan to request an enrollment kit, to use the online monthly rates calculator, and to get answers to basic questions about long-term care.