The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care

by Brette McWhorter Sember

Book Overview

The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care contains all the information you need to make the best decisions for the seniors you care about. Written by an attorney, this book explains how to manage residential, financial and medical matters as well as the legal issues that accompany them. In also addresses how to help seniors cope with the emotions that accompany aging and how to discuss with them the delicate issues that aging brings. This book will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572486597
• ISBN13: 9781572486591
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care by Sember

This book is well written. It has many details on theintricacies of Medicare, Medicaid, Supplementary Insuranceand many complex areas of the health care code. The authorexplains how to manage a patient from a long distance.This involves developing contacts in order to assist inmaintaining the patient while away from home. The authorprovides a checklist which explains how to evaluate anursing home for accessibility, cleanliness, order and ahost of other important criteria. The work explains the variousLong Term Care Insurance Policies and alternatives.This book will help you to craft a patient care plan given themany constraining factors in the existing health care system.i.e. complex regulations, cost, regional differences etc.

This book is definitely a must for anyone in this situation.

I bought this book because I need to decide where my mother should live. I was surprised at how much information it had. It helped me think about all the choices. I think we're going to try to work out a way to help her stay at home and the book had lots of really practical stuff about doing that. I understand Medicare and Medicaid now and the differences between the kinds of facilities. I liked the lists and the worksheets that really helped me get organized. The book also helped me think about what I want to do when I get older. I think this is a good book for anyone dealing with an older parent.