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Family Guide to Aging Parents

Answers to Your Legal, Financial, and Healthcare Questions
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Family Guide to Aging Parents by Carolyn Rosenblatt offers clear, professional advice for adult children managing the challenges of caring for ageing parents. Drawing on over 45 years of combined experience as a nurse and attorney, Rosenblatt addresses difficult topics such as legal and healthcare decisions, financial conversations, hiring home care workers, assisted living options, driving safety, and elder abuse prevention. Real-life case studies provide practical solutions for families navigating these complex issues.
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This book is ideal for adult children caring for ageing or ailing parents, professional caregivers, and anyone involved in elder care planning. It suits those seeking trustworthy guidance on the legal, health, and emotional aspects of supporting elderly family members.

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The complete guide for helping the boomer generation effectively manage the issues surrounding their aging parents.

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Are you struggling with what to do with difficult aging parents? Are they stubborn and refusing help? You are not alone. Millions of adult children face issues when parents’ health starts to decline and they can’t do things safely anymore.

There is endless information on the internet, much of it confusing and even contradictory with common sense. Skip the confusion! Now you can get clear, professional, action-oriented answers to your most vexing legal, health care, and financial questions about your aging loved ones.

Author Carolyn Rosenblatt is an RN and attorney with over 45 years of combined experience. She is a consultant for families at AgingParents.com, and her work there informs her writing.

Find real case illustrations and real-life solutions to problems like yours. You’ll find a chapter on how to have the often uncomfortable money conversation with your aging parents, how to safely hire a home care worker, what you need to know about assisted living, how to get your parent to give up driving, how to prevent your loved ones from being abused and much more.

Family Guide to Aging Parents gives you the legal and healthcare expertise you need to guide you through the many difficult decisions you have to make as your parents age.

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Highly recommended by specialists, this guide is praised for being a practical and useful resource for both family caregivers and professionals. Gary Small, MD, highlights its valuable healthcare and legal information, while Elaine G. Swenson emphasises it as a timely and powerful source of knowledge for families seeking help. The author’s expertise shines through in offering compassionate and informed insights on elder law and caregiving challenges.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781939629579

Publisher: Familius LLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Familius LLC

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 342

About the Author

Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, RN, Attorney, Mediator personally cared for thousands of older clients in her nursing career. She represented hundreds of individuals as a lawyer with a combined forty-five years in her professions. Her compassionate perspective on elders informs her writing throughout this book. She is a strong promoter of the safety, protection, and quality of life of seniors. She wants the reader to get immediate benefit from the lessons learned over the years in working with many families at AgingParents.com, which she founded with her psychologist husband, Dr. Mikol Davis. They also founded AgingInvestor.com, for education about elder abuse prevention.

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