A Life of Care Giving – Becoming an Enlightened Caregiver

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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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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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It may begin with a call in the middle of the night. Or it may seep in after years of your own denial. Sooner or later most of us are going to called to help an aging parent. And your help can make a great difference in the quality of their life. It can also provide you a rare opportunity to get to know and help the person who once took care of you.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t know where to start, or even if our help is really needed, as sometimes appreciation is not shown.

This book shows you step-by-step how to start pro-active care for your aging parent, from preparing for the initial doctor visit, to protecting their assets. It covers different housing options available, and how to select the right home for your parent. Also gives tips for surviving a hospital stay, selecting a decent nursing home, dealing with the mind-boggling aspects of dementia, and finally, what you should look for in a good hospice.

Emphasis is on practical problem solving and prevention, yet the reader is encouraged to develop a spiritual connection to help them through their journey.

Includes checklists, forms, and worksheets to keep you firmly on track. All are included on a FREE CD-ROM inside the back cover. Open the forms you need with your word processing program, for either IBM-style or Macintosh computers. Change them to suit your needs, fill them out, and then print. Or open in Adobe Acrobat Reader and print out or e-mail to relatives.

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With proper planning you can continue to live in dignity, without going into a nursing home. This book describes the steps necessary to do that:

1. Long Term Care Insurance

2. Geriatric Care Management

3. Putting Your Plans In Writing (including a living will, written instructions on the care you want and how it will be paid for), and

4. Getting Allies (including your doctor, your lawyer, your CPA, your family and friends).

The book describes how people are inadvertently put in nursing homes, how Mrs. Shoff kept her 96 year old father at her home after he had a major stroke, and all of the details of planning for your future comfort and dignity.

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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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