Product Description: Expert advice on planning for your own or a relative’s future care needs As we live longer and healthier lives, planning for the long term has never been more important. Planning gives you more control, but it’s not easy to find accurate information and answers to your questions...read more

Product Description: Every year Americans spend over 182 billion public and private dollars on services and supports for chronically disabled elders. This is projected to nearly double by 2030 to $341 billion and to grow to $684 billion once the last baby boomers have turned 85...read more

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Product Description: Cutting-edge strategies to prepare and respond to Medicare audits Know what to expect during a long-term care Medicare audit The book Medicare Audits in Long-Term Care: A Guide to MACs, RACs, and ZPICs describes the different types of Medicare audits that nursing homes face and helps you take a proactive approach to audit preparedness...read more

When his mother-in-law died suddenly and his seriously ill father-in-law was left with no one to care for him, the author and his wife were thrust into the complex and overwhelming world of long-term care. Just months later his own father fell sick, and the couple struggled to help care for him too—from 1000 miles away. Over the next year-and-a-half,  this ordinary family faced one crisis after another, as each day brought new  struggle and pain, but also surprising rewards. They were among the 44 million Americans who are caring for elderly parents or relatives or friends with disabilities.  Someone you love will almost certainly need long-term care services before they die. Nearly 70 percent of our parents will receive such help sometime during their old age—usually at home, though often in a nursing home. It will last for an average of three years, though one in five will need this assistance for five years or more. This book tells the sometimes painful, sometimes uplifting, and always compelling stories of the families who struggle every day with the care needs of their loved ones. The costs are crushing: and the weight of 77 million aging Baby Boomers will devastate our nation’s already fragile system for funding this critical day-to-day assistance. How can we repair the tattered safety net that is so essential to our aged and disabled?

Product Description: Written by two award-winning experts on long-term care, this book tells how to find the best assisted living, nursing homes, and 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...read more

Product Description: Statistics show that one out of every five Americans suffer from a disability. Whether the disability be mental or physical, proper care is required for one's own health and financial needs. Since finding the proper care affects many Americans, financial advisors and policymakers strive to find a system that financially supports Americans with disabilities...read more

In an informative manual on the modern health-care system, the author maintains that health care and community services do not meet the needs of the people who face illness and disability before death and offers an action plan for genuine reform.

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Product Description: Easy, concise, efficient, stress-free information that makes long-term care issues manageable, and less overwhelming! As elder care replaces child care as the number one issue facing baby-boomers, AGING ANSWERS is one book you need to take back control of your life, plan ahead, and provide excellent care for your aging loved ones, when they need you the most...read more

Product Description: Consumer text provides information on how to design a strategy for long-term care planning. Includes data on financing, various insurance policies, reverse mortgages, Medicaid, and Medicare. Also contains updated directories of insurance departments, aging and health agencies, and Medicare/Medicaid divisions...read more

A consumer's guide to the complexities of the health-care system for older Americans offers an objective, practical evaluation of a variety of health care, assisted living, and nursing home options in a helpful handbook that includes worksheets, charts, and comparison tables. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Have an extra $40,000 each year that you don’t know what to do with? You or your parents may end up paying this amount or more each year for long-term care, and the costs are escalating rapidly. Don’t let medical expenses ruin your retirement plans...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "An important contribution to the on-going national dialogue concerning the need for planning for an increasingly aged population and its impact on our social, political, medical, economic institutions."--Wisconsin Bookwatch "Based on their assessments of the levels of need for the long-term care among African-American, Latino, and non-Latino white older persons, the authors offer viable and attractive possible alternatives to institutionalization in the long-term care of the elderly...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A practical, cost-conscious guide offers children of elderly parents informed advice about providing for their parents' needs, including information about care-giving, living wills, nursing homes, and keeping their own lives in balance in difficult situations. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Because of wide-ranging changes in demographics, family structure, and the financing and delivery of health services, long-term care has emerged as an important concern for health and public policy. But long-term care has lacked a conceptual foundation that public policy analysts and families can draw upon to shape its development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Long-term care in the United States has taken the nursing home as its benchmark, but the monetary, social, and psychological costs of nursing home care are all too high. This book challenges the current dominance of nursing homes as the principal institution of long-term care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A continuing-care retirement community (CCRC)or life-care communityis a residence and nursing care option designed to respond to the needs of elderly persons as they need more supportive services over time. Although CCRCs have been in existence for some time, little longitudinal research has been conducted on these facilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Long-term care has emerged as an important issue in American society. The population of persons with chronic illnesses and disabilities, dependent upon supportive care, has grown rapidly and will increase sharply when Baby Boomers join the ranks of old age in the early part of the twenty-first century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)