The Complete Eldercare Planner, Second Edition : Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
Author: Joy Loverde
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ISBN: 0812932781
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (25 April, 2000)
Sales Rank: 8,105
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Get pointed in the right direction
This road map provides an effective tool for guiding family members through their caregiving journeys. It is more of a workbook than a reading book that clearly outlines simple objectives to help caregivers meet their diverse concerns. Covered areas include planning and preparing, money, legal and insurance matters, health tips, quality of life issues and death and dying. An Action Checklist concludes each chapter and an extensive Organizations Index in included. This book, which was written by a professional eldercare consultant, is most beneficial for family caregivers needing a starting point and a point in the right direction. Personal Matches. Better Living. www.personamatch.com.
Rating: 5 out of 5
When you plan you have choices
This is a book based on the principles of good planning and that it is better to be proactive than reactive. "When I plan, I have choices," the author states. And she gives the reader voluminous choices. This is a book filled with forms and action steps, low-cost and free resources and explanatory narrative. It will get you to where you need to be to be an effective care planner and caregiver.
Topics include where to start, how to tell when your elder needs help, emergency preparedness, financial and legal matters, housing, long-distance caregiving, transportation, medical concerns, death and dying, and resources.
This is a highly accessible and well thought-out workbook. For example, the author has taken the highly complex issue of "Money Matters" and divided it into workable plans. The first deals with the business side of cargiving and lists the things you need to calculate expenses; part two helps you to figure out if you can afford elder care; and the third describes who pays for what. The fourth plan is asking for help with time and money, listing the kinds of resources you might need help with (home maintenance, cooking, exercise, heavy lifting).
The chapter then goes on to plans for helping your loved one plan for financial fitness, with workbook forms for determining his or her current financial state (medical costs, income, expenses, insurance policies, travel costs, and financial advisors).
With this material laid out so clearly, the tasks of caregiving do not feel so foreboding. This book takes the fear out of the unknown and makes caregiving manageable from the start.
The "Documents Locator" at the end -- the whole list of legal, personal, medical documents you might need -- is worth the price of admission alone.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Immensely practical guide on common issues, with checklists and action planning guides... a Third Age Book Review - www.thirdage.com Similar Products
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