Series: The Best Half of Life | Publication Date: August 1, 2009
Merit Prize winner, 19th Annual Mature Media Awards, National Media (Book) division.
Written for older Americans, their Baby Boomer children, and everyone who cares for an older family member, this practical and comprehensive guide will help you build a strategy for coping with the unique legal, medical, financial, and personal challenges of aging.
Jan Warner and Jan Collins, America’s trusted experts on later life planning, put decades of experience into helping you create a step-by-step plan to protect your assets, your family, your health, and your personal autonomy in later life.
In Next Steps, you will learn how to build a team of trusted legal, financial, and medical professionals to protect your interests; what should be included in important documents such as wills and financial and medical powers of attorney; the pros and cons of living trusts and reverse mortgages; the basics of Medicare and Medicaid; how to avoid scams that target the elderly; and how to live with adult children.
You will also learn how to make the right choices in health-care and long-term care planning, and even how to deal with the most sensitive aspects of later life, including divorce, remarriage, incapacity, and protection of your rights in a nursing home.
Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life is a must-have guide to protecting your future, your family, and your finances in the second half of life.
"A step-by-step plan that's aimed at helping seniors avoid costly mistakes when dealing with these legal, medical, financial and personal challenges of aging . . . no potentially unpleasant subject goes ignored." —New York Times and Associated Press
"[Covering] many . . . elements of twilight life, Next Steps is a choice pick for those who want to be fully prepared for a fun old aged life." —Midwest Book Review Reviewer's Bookwatch
About the Author
Jan Warner is a lawyer who has maintained an active law practice in the matrimonial and eldery law areas for more than 30 years. He is the creator and coauthor of "Flying Solo®," a weekly newspaper column about divorce and separation, and "NextSteps®," a weekly newspaper column about matters affecting the elederly and disabled. Jan Collins is a writer and journalist who is the coauthor of "Flying Solo®" and "NextSteps®." She is the editor of Business & Economic Review and a special correspondent for The Economist. They both live in Columbia, South Carolina.
JAN L. WARNER received his A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina and earned a Master of Legal Letters (L.L.M.) in Taxation from the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is a Certified Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the American Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar Association, The American Judicature Society, and other legal organizations. He has provided continuing legal educational programs to both lawyers and judges in South Carolina on a myriad of issues within his areas of expertise.
He was recently appointed as an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and will be involved in teaching residents and physicians regarding dealing the elderly patients.
He has been trained and qualified as a matrimonial arbitrator by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is qualified to serve on both the commercial and family panels of the American Arbitration Association. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court of South Carolina, and all South Carolina State Courts. He has been involved in numerous appeals during his 40+ year career.
He is the founding partner and shareholder of ElderLaw Services of South Carolina, P.A./Warner Payne & Black, L.L.P., a law firm that limits it practice to matters affecting the family and the elderly including estate and long-term care planning, planning for incapacity, Medicaid qualification, and litigation in South Carolina courts. (www.elderlaw-sc.com)
He has been a frequent lecturer at both legal education and public information programs sponsored by The American Bar Association, various state and metropolitan bar associations, and other professional organizations and associations. His articles have been published in national and state legal publications.
He conceived and for 21 years has co-authored Flying Solo(R), a weekly newspaper column about divorce. He conceived and for 11 years has co-authored NextSteps???, a weekly newspaper column about matters affecting the elderly. Both of these columns are widely read and are syndicated by United Media (United Features Syndicate). Both columns have established Internet presence (www.flyingsolo.com and www.nextsteps.net). He also has hosted NextSteps(R) Senior Talk(tm) on WISW-AM regarding issues affecting the elderly and disabled.
In 1988, he founded Life Management(R) and has produced many series of audiotapes, videotapes, and print materials concerning divorce and separation, death of a spouse, and issues affecting the elderly. By virtue of a license granted by the American Bar Association, Life Management(R) produced audiotapes in a series for the Family Law Section.
His Make Your Wishes Known(R) programs were partially funded by The Duke Endowment and was produced in association with The South Carolina Hospital Association and Mary Black Foundation. This series of audiotapes, videotapes, and print materials which deal with the health care decision-making process is hosted by Spencer Christian, formerly of ABC's Good Morning America and has been endorsed by hospital associations throughout the United States. These programs have been designated as a national resource by the Department of Health and Human Services and have been positively reviewed by The Annenberg Washington White Paper.
He also produced a series of videotapes and printed materials about long-term care issues in association with South Carolina Educational Television.
He and his programs have been featured on radio and television throughout the United States and written about in the press and legal publications -- including Kiplinger's, ABA Journal, National Law Journal, USA Weekend, People, Detroit Free Press, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, NY Post, The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Dallas Morning News, Plain Dealer (Cleveland), and Washington Post.
Co-authored with Jan Collins, his book, "Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life", was released on August 1, 2009 by QuillDriver.
This review is from: Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)
I have read the Next Steps column for years in my local newspaper, and was happy to learn the authors have now written a book. This is a book on how to prepare for "successful aging," and it's full of information that I need right now, as I am 61 and planning to retire in the next year or two. The chapter on health care planning was especially useful to me. Baby Boomers need to read this.
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This review is from: Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)
Breezy and easy to read and straight on point, helps anyone with a situation you (elderly) may be in or like me (with elderly parents) this book funnels all the blather on how to arrange a simple and straight forward plan. This book comes from their columns which you can get going back into the 90s at the book's title plus adding .com to it. These two know what they are writing about.
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This review is from: Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)
Your retirement is your statement that you are set for life, but without being smart about it, that's a tougher statement to make than ever. "Next Step: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life" is a guide for readers entering their golden years and want their retirement to act as if is, so they can stay retired through their retirement years and make it so money is the last thing on their minds. Medical care, divorce, nursing homes, and many more elements of twilight life, "Next Step" is .a choice pick for those who want to be fully prepared.
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