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. Select an option to learn more about the available plans, rates, and steps to take to apply.

• 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, adult day care center or in the home, according to the plan selected.
   

• A person requires long term care when he or she needs 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.
   

• Offered to all CalPERS employees, spouses, parents, parents-in-law and siblings (age 18 and older).
   

• Entirely employee-paid.
   

• Contact the CalPERS Long-Term Care Program at 1-800-338-2244 or CalPERS Long Term Care Plan to request an enrollment kit.   Frequently Asked Questions