Recent studies are showing that people just don’t get it when it comes to the potential cost of health care during retirement. And one factor they’re not considering is how much long-term care could cost them—particularly since it varies widely depending on where in the U.S. they live.

In an effort to make people more aware of the potential costs of long-term care—something that’s in very few retirees’ budgets—Lincoln Financial has launched a website that provides current national average costs for various levels of long-term care.

While it’s already widely known that health care expenses can cripple a retiree’s budget—recent figures from the Government Accountability Office are said to be too low, by a considerable margin, by HealthView Services, which provides data on retiree health care costs—the full extent of the cost of staying alive long enough to have a retirement can be very high.

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