Making the Move: A Practical Guide to Senior Residential Communities [Paperback]

Lettice Stuart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997

A comprehensive guide is designed to show seniors and their families the many options available to people in their golden years and offers advice to readers who are seeking residential communities that best suit specific needs.

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Review

A growing number of older Americans are living more active lives and they want to understand the options available in retirement living. Enter this title, which examines influences on decision-making processes, considers levels of care in different community settings, and outlines financial and lifestyle concerns involved in comparing senior residential communities. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 207 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (P) (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380789817
• ISBN-13: 978-0380789818
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,011,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's About Time, February 8, 2000

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Jean May (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making the Move: A Practical Guide to Senior Residential Communities (Paperback)

Lettice Stuart understands the complexities of making a move as a child and as a parent facing the inevitable. Her guide to seniors and their children is intended to clarify difficult issues and define the process that we must all go through, making the complex simple, the foreign familiar.

Anyone who has reached middle age (dreading the new mail, unsolicited, from AARP), will most likely still bear responsibility for a parent who is at least 20 years older, and Stuart's book helps inform and arm the child of an aging parent for the struggle that both will face, willy nilly.

Stuart's organization is clear, her definitions precise (helping us distinguish among many slippery terms for each of many critical categories of understanding this process of transition), and her resolve absolute: we will all face this challenge, whether we wish to or not, and those of us who face it with knowledge and foresight will be in a position to find not only succor but happiness.

This seems like a tall order to fill, but just wait until it is your turn. Words that seem foreign will suddenly ring true, and concepts that you never imagined possible in your situation will become clear and manageable.

I wish that I had Lettice Stuart on my shoulder the whole way though the process of transitioning a loved, aging parent into the next exciting phase of life. But having her tidy, lucid paperback in my pocket is the next best thing!

Jean May