The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care: Making Sense of the Residential, Financial and Medical Maze

by Brette McWhorter Sember

Book Overview

Navigates the world of health-care services and long-term care facilities for the reader or for the reader's aging parents This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157248229X
• ISBN13: 9781572482296
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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.