There are a lot of issues to consider as our loved ones get older. From in-home care to assisted living facilities, there are myriad options available - and each person?s needs are unique. Family members need a resource that will answer all of their questions and ease them through this often-complicated transition. This helpful handbook guides concerned children as they: decide which level of care is best for their parent; maintain communication and discuss difficult topics; handle home safety issues; manage transportation; find and work with a primary-care physician; navigate insurance paperwork; handle legal issues and questions; and other sensitive issues. From setting up a support network to avoiding scams, this informative guide will help a family decide on - and implement - the best care options for their loved ones.
Kathy Quan RN BSN PHN has been a nurse for over thirty years. After a few short years of hospital nursing, she moved to home health care where she could truly spend time with her patients and provide quality care and education to the patients and their families and caregivers.
Eventually, she transitioned into nurse management where she could mentor nurses new to home health care and work with student nurses on their rotation through home health, hoping to encourage them to one day become home health nurses as well.
Kathy has always loved to write and began to combine this with her nursing career as she wrote patient education materials and nurse education materials. She broadened this horizon when she became the Guide to Nursing at About.com in 2004. She was the last Guide to Nursing when About.com combined the nursing site into a Health Careers site in 2007. She has moved that content to her own blog and website. TheNursingSite.com and TheNursingSiteBlog.
She was recruited by Adams Media in 2005 to write her first book, The Everything New Nurse Book, which was published in March 2006. It has been so successful that in 2009, Adams Media re-purposed it into 150 Tips and Tricks for New Nurses. In 2007, The Everything Guide to Careers in Health Care was published.
In 2008, Kathy wrote The Everything Guide to Caring for Aging Parents from her vast experience in the twenty-five plus years as a home health nurse as well as her own life experiences in caring for ill and aging parents and in-laws. It was published in February, 2009. She is now writing a blog about caring for aging parents: www.AboutAgingParents.com
Kathy lives in southern California with her husband Tim, and a menagerie of cats and dogs. They have three terrific adult children. She regularly contributes to several websites and blogs.
