Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions

Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions

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Product Price: $18.95

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill

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A USA Today BESTSELLER!

"Informative. Complete. And practical. This book will guide family caregivers through the surprisingly complex world of senior care."
—MEHMET OZ, M.D., New York Times bestselling coauthor of YOU: The Owner's Manual: The Complete All-in-One Care Guide

Choosing the best care for your aging parents and other seniors in your life is not only complex, with multiple options available, it's also highly personal and often emotional. This essential resource—written by the founders of Home Instead Senior Care, the world's largest provider of nonmedical care for seniors—guides you through a comprehensive range of things to consider, step by step, so you can make better informed decisions and be confident that the senior in your life is receiving the best care possible. Checklists and diagnostics will help you:

"This is not just another book about caring for aging parents. It's a great reference you'll use again and again. Stages doesn't shy away from the hard questions. Rather, it shows you how to confront them."—SUZANNE MINTZ, President/CEO, National Family Caregivers Association

"Recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, this salient volume compassionately addresses a full range of hard-to-discuss subjects."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

All of the authors' profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation.

Paul and Lori Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care in 1994. Now with 850 offices in 15 countries, Home Instead is recognized as a global leader and authority on senior care. Visit them at www.stagesofseniorcare.com.

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Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-17
Summary: "stages of senior care"

I found this book had a lot of very good information for people over 60 and there children

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-04-28
Summary: "Dull but thorough"

I bought this to give to my adult children, now their father and I are approaching our dotage. Among them and their spouses we have one of every skill we will require except medicine (probably the Most Needed). HOWEVER, just as the shoemaker's children are reputed to have no new shoes, the lawyer's parents have to push hard to get the documents they need. This book does the deal from soup to nuts, from moving to hospice, legal documents to care-givers (let's hear it for daughters--alas, we have only ONE).

Suggestion: get it before you get REALLY old (something that depends on how the combo of genes and self-care have worked for you). It is a tad depressing to think of oneself as so dependent on others.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-09
Summary: "satisfied customer"

The bood arrived in perfect condition, in a timely fashion. I am very pleased!

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-04
Summary: "Excellant Resource"

Great summary of the options a family should consider if they are trying to make decisions for an aging parent! Nicely done.

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-03-01
Summary: "Excellent basic guide for caregivers"

This book will be helpful to those providing care to older adults across a wide spectrum of needs. It is a basic caregiving guide that could ease the burden of care for many years and in many differing care situations. The authors had previously developed a concept called the `40-70 Rule' a guide to how to start the conversation about future care needs. This guide is available free online at [...]. After initial introductory chapters, the book begins with a chapter set at the beginning of the caregiving journey with the care receiver living independently in the community. There are suggestions about how to make the environment safer and guidelines about the costs of these safety measures, and a discussion about the pros and cons of remaining in one's home. At the end of the chapter there are valuable online resources.

The book follows this format of discussion of issues, pros and cons, cost, and resources for caregiving scenarios as they become progressively more challenging from assisted living to the end of life. The Hogans' are the founders and owners of the home care agency Home Instead. I expected the book to be biased in favor of remaining at home with in-home assistance. I was wrong. The book fairly presents the problems and expenses involved in staying in one's home alongside other options and their problems and costs, with discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of each possibility. The resources at the end of chapters are thoroughly researched.

The book continues with discussions of funeral options and expenses that may be especially valuable for families of modest means or with family members living far from the care receiver. There are chapters on financing care, complicating issues, and an excellent chapter on taking care of the caregiver.

I highly recommend this book, and will include it as a resource for everyone in my Eldercare/ Caregiver classes.
Kay Paggi, LPC, NCGC, Certified Care Manager