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Arranging adequate health insurance is an important element in international residence planning – yet it is often overlooked. If someone moves abroad, their current health insurance policy will normally expire. One is then usually left with a choice of finding another local insurer in the new country of residence or of turning to an international health insurer. It is highly advisable to take out an appropriate health plan at a younger age and before the first signs of ill health manifest. Even if you are very wealthy and think you do not need health insurance at all, you need to think again: a private health policy with an internationally recognized insurer and arranged through a competent specialized consultant,⁵ which gives you access to a 24-hour assistance service and a kind of medical family office can be extremely useful. It can even be critical if you have an accident in a remote part of the world and if the closest adequate hospital needs to be found in an instant, or to help you find and select the best doctor or clinic for a particular medical problem. Indeed, one of the first steps in a planned change of residence should be to obtain worldwide health cover which ensures the necessary international flexibility.