The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents: The Complete Guide [Paperback]

R.N., Attorney Carolyn L. Rosenblatt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2009

Carolyn L. Rosenblatt is a registered nurse and an attorney with over 40 years of combined experience. She has compiled her 9 volume series into this Complete Guide. It touches on dangerous older drivers, choosing home care workers and nursing homes, understanding assisted living, the specifics of handling money for aging parents, ways to manage sibling conflicts about elders, advice from a lawyer about how to choose a lawyer when your parent needs one, and knowing how a care manager can help you.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents" is the most comprehensive, forthright, and heartfelt resource guide for families with an aging elder.  I highly recommend that you keep this book at hand to help you traverse the challenging path with your elders. This is the only book for caregivers that contains deep and broad expertise on legal issues, which you will want to know. You'll find practical step-by-step expertise on legal  and health concerns, that can help you feel at ease in the short term and the long term, at a time when you need it most.   The time of your parents' aging is poignant and delicate.  "The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents" will help you find your way with clear road markers, like a beacon in the night. Carolyn is a recognized expert who has a rare and unique combination of deep and broad expertise as an astute attorney and wise nurse.  She is a treasure, and a rare find.  You'll want to keep her book on your night stand.   Frannie Field, M.S., MFT, Author --Frannie Field, M.S., MFT, Author

This book is for those who are finding themselves in a place they may have never expected to be: responsible wholly, or in part for the care and or welfare of their parents. The Baby Boomer generation is running head-on into another milepost of life: aging parents.Many have had only superficial contact with the day-to-day realities of becoming caregivers to adults. Many have been entitled. And many have been fortunate in finding great careers. Now, faced with the conundrum of reaching retirement in a suddenly unreliable economic environment, co-incidentally with their own parents, Boomers have a new set of issues with their parents. Carolyn Rosenblatt's book is informative and supportive in helping with decision-making that is too often difficult. Practical advice will answer questions and direct the search for optimal solutions. Carolyn's personal and professional background are exceptional credentials for providing this guide to present and future caregivers. As a professional in Healthcare and an advocate for safe, meaningful and dignified care for our Elders, I recommend this book with confidence. The format of the book is convenient, offering topic choices in individual books so that the reader can access specific subjects, and is available in Kindle. --Donna N. Berry, R.N.

Timely, important, and helpful. Making use of new technology, this book is for those who are finding themselves in a place they may have never expected to be: responsible wholly, or in part for the care and or welfare of their parents. The Baby Boomer generation is running head-on into another milepost of life: aging parents.Many have had only superficial contact with the day-to-day realities of becoming caregivers to adults. Many have been entitled. And many have been fortunate in finding great careers. Now, faced with the conundrum of reaching retirement in a suddenly unrealiable economic environment, co-incidently with their own parents, Boomers have a new set of issues with their parents. Carolyn Rosenblatt's book is informative and supportive in helping with decision-making that is too often difficult. Practical advice in the convenient Kindle form will answer questions and direct the search for optimal solutions. Carolyn's personal and professional background are exceptional credentials for providing this guide to present and future caregivers. As a professional in Healthcare and an advocate for safe, meaningful and dignified care for our Elders, I recommend this book with confidence. --Dr. Tessa Ten Tusscher

About the Author

Ms. Rosenblatt is a Registered Nurse with ten years of nursing and twenty-seven years of experience as a practicing attorney. She has extensive, hands-on experience in elderly care, aging parents and working with caregivers. She has worked in hospitals and visited patients at home as a Public Health Nurse. Her law practice involved litigation and trials. She is familiar with insurance, financial and elder law issues. She is an experienced mediator, helping resolve conflicts.Ms. Rosenblatt received her nursing diploma at O'Connor Hospital School of Nursing in 1969, her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of San Francisco in 1971 and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco in 1978. She was employed as a nurse's aide in nursing homes with geriatric patients during her studies. She began working as a nurse in acute hospitals, nursing homes, and then moved to community health nursing, both in Los Angeles County and in San Francisco. She visited thousands of geriatric patients and other patients at home, caring for those with chronic, debilitating illness, injuries, and physical and emotional problems associated with aging.She worked her way through law school as a nurse, and upon passing the Bar Exam in 1978, moved into an attorney position in a San Francisco law firm, where she began doing litigation and trial work. She continued this work for about five years, after which she started her own law practice in 1982. She represented clients in personal injury, products and elder abuse cases, doing all phases of litigation and trial work. She began to reduce her litigation work to take extensive mediation training, beginning in 2003. Her experiences in mediation revealed the need for doing consulting work with seniors, aging parents and their families and caregivers. She began Help With Elders.com with her husband, Dr. Davis in 2005 to fill the need for a multi-discipline approach to assisting those concerned with the needs of their aging parents and elders.Ms. Rosenblatt maintains membership in numerous professional organizations, and has served as past president of Marin County Trial Lawyers Association, and Marin County Women Lawyers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: Aging Parents Press (February 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0578007118
• ISBN-13: 978-0578007113
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn L. Rosenblatt, R.N., Registered Nurse and an Attorney, with 40 years of combined experience in her two professions. She, together with her husband, Dr. Mikol Davis, a psychologist, is the founder of AgingParents.com, a resource for those who are caring for aging loved ones at home or in facilities. She is a consultant to individuals and families struggling with aging-related issues, and is a mediator for families in conflict. She is the author of The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents, a nine part series offering practical solutions to common legal and health care problems caregivers and adult children of aging loved ones face every day.