Carol Levine

Navigating Your Later Years for Dummies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Choose the best options to live your later years to the fullest Navigating Your Later Years For Dummies, Portable Edition, provides expert advice to help you make smart decisions as you age. Should you stay in your familiar surroundings or move somewhere with planned activities, transportation, and prepared meals? What should you do with your stuff accumulated over a lifetime? What are the signs that it s time to stop driving? What end-of-life documents do you need? The answers to these and other questions are deeply personal, and the friendly, practical advice you find here will help you plan for a fulfilling future. Inside. . . 1. Thinking about your future years 2. Talking through your decisions with family members 3. Staying in your home safely 4. Cleaning out items you no longer need 5. Evaluating independent- and assisted-living communities 6. Managing your medications

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Portable edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781119809845
• ISBN-10: 1119809843
• Artikelnr.: 61147668

Autorenporträt

Carol Levine is a Senior Fellow at United Hospital Fund in New York. She writes frequently about aging, health, long-term care, and family caregiving. AARP is the U.S. s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people to choose how they live as they age.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Navigating Your Later Years 5

Chapter 1: Looking Ahead: The Big Picture 7

Chapter 2: A Personal Inventory: Past, Present, and Future 21

Chapter 3: Finding Services 31

Chapter 4: Making Decisions: A Family Affair 43

Part 2: Choosing Where to Live 53

Chapter 5: Staying in Your Home 55

Chapter 6: Under One Roof: Generations Living Together 73

Chapter 7: Downsizing for Now and Later 87

Chapter 8: Assisted and Independent Living and Other Group Settings 95

Chapter 9: Beyond Your Home: Living in a Community 113

Chapter 10: Getting Around: Transportation Options 125

Part 3: Legal and Financial Planning 139

Chapter 11: Unraveling the Rules of Medicare and Medicaid 141

Chapter 12: Paying for Care: Long-Term Care Insurance and Other Options 161

Chapter 13: Financial Matters: Money Management, Wills, Trusts, and More 177

Part 4: Managing Your Healthcare 193

Chapter 14: Choosing Good Medical Care 195

Chapter 15: Demystifying Home Care 211

Chapter 16: Understanding the Different Roles of Nursing Homes 227

Chapter 17: Getting the Healthcare You Want (And Avoiding What You Don't Want) 241

Part 5: Services for Special Groups 253

Chapter 18: LGBT Older Adults 255

Chapter 19: Services for Veterans 269

Chapter 20: Family Caregivers 283

Part 6: The Part of Tens 305

Chapter 21: Ten Myths about Aging and Future Care 307

Chapter 22: Ten Resources with State-by-State Information 317

Part 7: Appendixes 325

Appendix A: Glossary 327

Appendix B: Resources 339

Index 347