Navigating Your Later Years for Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119481584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Dummies Press

Opis

Expert advice to help you choose the best care options for the long term We re living exciting bonus years decades that our parents and grandparents didn t have. But how do we learn to navigate the choices when it s all new? Where to live. How to get the best medical care.

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Navigating Your Later Years 5Chapter 1: Looking Ahead: The Big Picture 7Chapter 2: A Personal Inventory: Past, Present, and Future 21Chapter 3: Finding Services 31Chapter 4: Making Decisions: A Family Affair 43Part 2: Choosing Where to Live 53Chapter 5: Staying in Your Home 55Chapter 6: Under One Roof: Generations Living Together 73Chapter 7: Downsizing for Now and Later 87Chapter 8: Assisted and Independent Living and Other Group Settings 95Chapter 9: Beyond Your Home: Living in a Community 113Chapter 10: Getting Around: Transportation Options 125Part 3: Legal and Financial Planning 139Chapter 11: Unraveling the Rules of Medicare and Medicaid 141Chapter 12: Paying for Care: Long-Term Care Insurance and Other Options 161Chapter 13: Financial Matters: Money Management, Wills, Trusts, and More 177Part 4: Managing Your Healthcare 193Chapter 14: Choosing Good Medical Care 195Chapter 15: Demystifying Home Care 211Chapter 16: Understanding the Different Roles of Nursing Homes 227Chapter 17: Getting the Healthcare You Want (And Avoiding What You Don't Want) 241Part 5: Services for Special Groups 253Chapter 18: LGBT Older Adults 255Chapter 19: Services for Veterans 269Chapter 20: Family Caregivers 283Part 6: The Part of Tens 305Chapter 21: Ten Myths about Aging and Future Care 307Chapter 22: Ten Resources with State-by-State Information 317Part 7: Appendixes 325Appendix A: Glossary 327Appendix B: Resources 339Index 347

O autorze

Carol Levine directs the Families and Health Care Project at the United Hospital Fund in New York. She is an expert on aging, health, long-term care, and family caregiving, and writes on those topics for both professional and consumer audiences.