Next Steps
A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life
Published on 1. August 2009
258 pages
978-1-61035-093-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Section I: Choosing Your Team and Making It Work
- CHAPTER 1: Putting Together the Right Team for You
- CHAPTER 2: Working with Your Team
- Section II: Preparing the Necessary Documents
- CHAPTER 3: What You'll Need for Your Plan
- CHAPTER 4: Potential Pitfalls and Lifelines
- CHAPTER 5: Asset Management Tools
- Section III: Implementing Your Plan Should You or a Spouse Become Chronically Ill or Incapacitated
- CHAPTER 6: Health-Care Planning
- CHAPTER 7: Long-Term Care Issues, Level-of-Care Decisions, and Payment Options
- CHAPTER 8: Understanding the Basics of Medicaid
- CHAPTER 9: Patients' Rights in Nursing Homes and Assisted-Living Facilities
- Section IV: Other Considerations
- CHAPTER 10: Divorce-Especially When You're Older...
- CHAPTER 11: Divorce- What You Need to Know at Any Age
- CHAPTER 12: Second, á ird, and Beyond Marriages
- CHAPTER 13: Cohabitation and Domestic Partnerships ..
- Section V: The End of the Line
- CHAPTER 14: Burial Disputes and Organ Donation
- CHAPTER 15: Planning for Pets
- EPILOGUE
- Glossary
- Web Resources
- Index
