A Life of Care Giving – Becoming an Enlightened Caregiver

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A straight-talking guide to choosing and paying for a nursing home, assisted living site, or home care. Joseph Matthews presents all the information consumers need to make the best choices for long-term care, such as how to:

• protect assets
• arrange home health care
• find nursing and non-nursing home residences
• rate nursing home insurance policies
• understand Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs

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Written by two award-winning experts on long-term care, this book tells how to find the best

• Assisted living
• Nursing homes
• Senior housing

in your community. Included are Q&A sections that help you determine the level of care your loved one needs; practical information on how to pay for eldercare; things to look for (and questions to ask) when visiting eldercare facilities or homecare services; and a helpful, state-by-state listing of ombudsman, aging agencies, and eldercare websites.

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“Excellence in Caring” – a rose out of an exposure to hundreds of encounters with owners, operators and managers, residents and families in numerous

Newly revised and updated, this acclaimed, complete guide delivers what people need to know to help an aging loved one–a must for all caregivers!

Written by two distinguished psychologists for spouses, siblings, and adult children, this frank and highly useful guide is meticulously organized to provide answers, dispel myths, anticipate needs, and provide strategies for dealing with every aspect of in-home and facility care.

With chapters on choosing the right placement setting, navigating the bureaucracy of today’s eldercare system, and determining how best to pay for services, this revised edition includes new information on:

*diagnosis
*interventions
*insurance, legal, and policy matters
as well as updated checklists, phone and Internet lists, budget worksheets, and questionnaires.

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When an aging family member needs some extra help and care, whether a parent, spouse, sibling, or friend, this is the book to get. It delivers bottom-line, no-nonsense, practical information for every stage of need, from the earliest signs of illness, through the nursing home, and beyond.

Written by two distinguished psychologists with specialties in eldercare counseling and research, this frank, friendly, time-tested guide is meticulously organized to provide answers, dispel myths, anticipate needs, and help you learn strategies for dealing with every aspect of in-home and facility care, including caring for the caregiver in the process. Also includes checklists, phone and Internet lists, budget worksheets, questionnaires, and a detailed index.

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