A Life of Care Giving – Becoming an Enlightened Caregiver

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You’ve argued politics with your aunt since high school, but failing eyesight now prevents her from keeping current with the newspaper. Your mother fractured her hip last year and is confined to a wheelchair. Your father has Alzheimer’s and only occasionally recognizes you.

Someday, as Muriel Gillick points out in this important yet unsettling book, you too will be old. And no matter what vitamin regimen you’re on now, you will likely one day find yourself sick or frail. How do you prepare? What will you need?

With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical care decisions, and with finding meaning in life. Skillfully incorporating insights from medicine, health policy, and economics, she lays out action plans for individuals and for communities. In addition to doing all we can to maintain our health, we must vote and organize–for housing choices that consider autonomy as well as safety, for employment that utilizes the skills and wisdom of the elderly, and for better management of disability and chronic disease.

Most provocatively, Gillick argues against desperate attempts to cure the incurable. Care should focus on quality of life, not whether it can be prolonged at any cost.

“A good old age,” writes Gillick, “is within our grasp.” But we must reach in the right direction.

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Finding the right kind of long-term care, in the right place, often requires making difficult decisions in difficult times. Choose the Right Long-Term Care helps you understand the many alternatives to nursing facilities and shows you how to fit the care you need to the funds you have available.

Learn how to:

*Arrange Home Care

Understand what home care can do, what kind of care is available where you live, and how to arrange for services.

*Find a Non-Nursing Facility Residence

Learn about the many varieties of independent living and assisted living residential care communities, and how to choose one that matches your needs and budget.

*Choose a Nursing Home

If you need a nursing facility, find out what to look for and how to assess the quality of care.

*Get the Most out of Medicare, Medicaid and Other Benefit Programs

Understand the regulations concerning benefit programs, what they cover and how to qualify for them.

*Evaluate Long-Term Care Insurance

Find out whether long-term care insurance is a good investment for you.

*Protect Some of Your Assets

Avoid draining your life savings and losing your home as you cover the costs of long-term care.

The completely updated 4th edition provides all new information about estate planning, plus a new chapter on the special care needs of elders with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of mental disorientation. With sensitivity and clarity, Attorney Joseph Matthews gives you all the information necessary to help plan for and make the best arrangements for long-term care.

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This book will answer all the financial and legal questions that can arise when caring for the elderly, including:

• How do you plan for the management of the elder’s affairs should he become incompetent in the future?
• Is the proper insurance being carried or can it be restructured to reduce expenses?
• How much money can I give my elders without impacting government aid?
• What are the goals of estate tax planning?

These questions and more will be answered in the comprehensive 250 Questions format. Whether you are caring full- or part-time for an aging parent, friend, or neighbor, you’ll find all the answers you need in this compact guide.

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Picture respectful, responsible, obedient children who entertain themselves without television or video games, do their own homework, and have impeccable manners. A pie-in-the-sky fantasy? Not so, says family psychologist and bestselling author John Rosemond. Any parent who so desires can grow children who fit that description — happy, emotionally healthy children who honor their parents and their families with good behavior and do their best in school.

In the 1960s, American parents stopped listening to their elders when it came to child rearing and began listening instead to professional experts. Since then, raising children has become fraught with anxiety, stress, and frustration. The solution, says John, lies in raising children according to biblical principles, the same principles that guided parents successfully for hundreds of years. They worked then, and they still work now!

Through his nationally syndicated newspaper column and eleven books, John has been helping families raise happy, well-behaved children for more than thirty years. In Parenting by The Book, which John describes as both a “mission and a ministry,” he brings parents back to the uncomplicated basics. Herein fi nd practical, Bible-based advice that will help you be the parent you want to be, with children who will be, as the Bible promises, “a delight to your soul” (Pro. 29-17). As a bonus, John also promises to make you laugh along the way.

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This book is for people who care for and care about the elderly – teaching us how to keep the spirits of the elderly alive even under the most difficult circumstances.

The spirit within…that’s what is important. Our bodies and even our minds may fail us but, even so, we can grow stronger in spirit.

Charles Tindell writes about people – real people like Herman who sits outside in his wheelchair when storm warnings are given, hoping to see his first tornado before he turns eighty-nine.

He writes about Sid, sharp as a tack, who says very little but plays the piano for the other residents. When Sid’s wife dies on the day of their sixty-third wedding anniversary, Sid is back playing the piano two days later. The songs? “It Had To Be You…Wonderful You” and “I’ll Be Loving You Always.”

Rev. Tindell asks us to ponder thought-provoking questions about the meaning of these lives (and the meaning of our own lives as we grow older). We have many questions to answer: How do we deal with our parents’ aging and our own aging? What keeps spirits alive and growing? What changes can caregivers make to provide better care in the current health care environment? How can we use the wisdom and experience of our elderly to make our world and their world better?

The stories in this book provide some of the answers.

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