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When Someone You Love Needs Nursing Home, Assisted Living, or In-Home Care: The Complete Guide

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This handbook is a valuable resource for anyone faced with the daunting task of choosing care for an elderly family member. The vast majority of readers most likely have found themselves thrust into an emergency situation with a loved one who needs immediate care. Navigating the uncharted waters of eldercare options can quickly become overwhelming and stressful.

This guide will help readers decide which kind of care is most appropriate with practical information about nursing homes, assisted living arrangements, and in-home care options. As an eldercare executive, I have seen a rapid increase in the number of people searching for care for their loved ones. This guide will help them dispel common myths about long-term care, find the answers to commonly asked questions and explore financial issues.

Every once in a while a book comes along that
is not only informative but presents the facts in an easy to access and caring fashion. This is one such book. In these pages, the authors describe resources available to the elderly and their caregivers; they describe the feelings of the elderly as their body and personal relationships change; and they explain the psychological as well as emotional changes as a person moves through the progressively limiting stages of growing old and needing help. There are sections on how to evaluate the different facilities, how to bring up the subject of in-home care or moving out of the home, what finances are involved and what the emotional affects on the caregivers may be. At a time when stress and emotions are running high for everyone involved, it was comforting to be able to turn to this valuable resource.

Claire Laufman