The Complete Eldercare Planner, now fully revised with the latest information on everything from financing a longer life to in-home assisted-living care, will help you plan ahead and manage real-life eldercare issues. Everything you need is in these pages, including checklists, worksheets, websites, ste-by-step action plans, and questions to ask professionals. This is the essential guide for anyone who's considering or is ready to make the commitment to caring for someone. Paperback.
The only guide you’ll ever need to manage the care of your aging family
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
As our population shifts and ages, the care needs for our elders continue to change and evolve. Today’s generation of family and professional caregivers faces new decisions and challenges, as well as previously unavailable options. This thoroughly revised and updated 2009 edition of The Complete Eldercare Planner equips you with reliable, up-to-the-minute information to help you plan and manage caring for your loved ones.
Comprehensive and detailed, sensitive and realistic, practical and accessible, the 2009 edition provides even more tips on prioritizing and organizing caregiving tasks, balancing work and family responsibilities, and navigating the complex maze of eldercare services. In addition to an expanded index of Internet resources and access to downloadable forms of key documents, you’ll find indispensable checklists, worksheets, step-by-step action plans, lists of questions to ask, low-cost and free alternative resources, and The Document Locator™. This new edition covers:
•Getting started on creating a long-term care plan
•Finding help, especially if you live far away
•Managing the financial aspects
•Talking to elders about sensitive subjects
•Senior housing–move or stay put?
•Managing medications
•And many other topics of vital interest to anyone caring for an elder
JOY LOVERDE, a leading consultant in the senior/active adult industry for thirty years, shares her expertise with family members and professionals who want to successfully plan and manage eldercare and caregiving issues. Her work has been featured on Today, the CBS Early Show, National Public Radio, and in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and Consumer Reports. She lives in Chicago. Visit her website at ElderIndustry.com.
Joy Loverde is a leading expert on successful aging and caregiving, and is a consultant for the fast-growing mature-market industry. With over 25 years of experience as a media spokesperson, Joy has been featured on the Today show, CBSs Early Show, CNN Headline News, Fox News, and National Public Radio and in Consumer Reports, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and others. Joy lives in Chicago.
Now more than ever, most people are faced with difficult decisions about caring for an ailing parent, spouse, or relative. The caregiving process is often a daunting task with many unanswered questions: "I work full-time-how can I be in two places at once?" "How will we pay for in-home care?" "Do I really want Dad to move in?" "How do I bring up sensitive issues like not driving?" "How do I get my siblings to pitch in?" "Where do they keep their legal documents and important papers?" On top of regular work and family responsibilities, caregiving can be a full-time job. Fortunately, you need not face the task alone.
The Complete Eldercare Planner provides an invaluable resource to help you along the way.
Topics include:
Getting Help
Long-Distance Caregiving
Moving out of the Family Home
Essential Questions to Ask
Responding to an Emergency
Is Spirituality Good Medicine?
Managing Guilt
Juggling Work and Family
Paying for Care
Managing Medications
Saying Good-bye
Unlike other books on the subject, The Complete Eldercare Planner is the only how-to resource that focuses on the big picture of eldercare. Everything you need is in these pages, including time- and money-saving checklists, worksheets, websites, practical step-by-step action plans, low-cost resources, and questions to ask professionals. This fully revised and updated edition of The Complete Eldercare Planner is an essential resource for anyone struggling with the many challenges that face todays caregivers. Whether you are someone who is considering or is ready to make the commitment to care for someone, The Complete Eldercare Planner will provide insight to guide you along the way.
