This guide addresses three basic questions faced by families caring for aging relatives at home. What is home care? Where and how can it be obtained? What are the sources to pay for it? The book employs a question-and-answer style and a convenient outline format. A detailed table of contents and extensive indices of topics and terms facilitate readers' search for information. When explaining long-term care at home, the author also gives in-depth overviews of traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug coverage, Medicaid, Medigap insurance, and long-term care...

In this updated and considerably expanded third edition, the Dictionary+ is the only comprehensive guide to the language of eldercare. Experts and consumers alike will find this reference tool of value. Its nearly 1,000 entries define all the major terms of eldercare and cover such subjects as Medicare, long-term care, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, prescription drug coverage, and home care. More than 50 encyclopedia-like overviews, written in outline format, give readers a broad understanding of the major topics of eldercare and provide a context to the definitions of...