The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care: Making Sense of the Residential, Financial and Medical Maze

Book Description
Whether you are exploring options for yourself or for your aging parents, navigating the world of health-care services and long-term care facilities can be a daunting task. Filled with invaluable information in an easy-to-use format, this handbook discusses becoming involved with medical care, dealing with finances and understanding the differences between long-term care insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. It also clearly explains the differences between senior residences, assisted living and nursing homes.

From the Author
Designed to help you make reasoned and intelligent choices about senior care, this title covers all the legal issues and many of the practical, day to day issues involved in choosing and managing senior care. Each chapter contains checklists, tip sheets and questionaires to help you gather and evaluate information.

About the Author
Brette McWhorter Sember received her J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She practiced law in New York state and was a member of the Surrogate's Court committee of the Bar Association of Erie County and was on the Guardian ad litem panel in two counties. Her practice included estate planning and probate. Sember is experienced in helping seniors sort through options and evaluate choices that involve lifestyle, care facilities, finances and estate and health planning. Her one to one experience with seniors gave her understanding about the deeply personal nature of senior planning and also developed her belief that senior planning is an issue for the entire family. Additionally, her own family experience with aging grandparents makes senior care a day to day issue. Sember is the author of several self-help legal guides that deal with family and financial issues. She writes and speaks often about law.


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Making decisions about senior care can be confusing, expensive and frightening. The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care provides easy to understand explanations and suggestions about evaluating, understanding and selecting residential, medical, financial and legal assistance. Medicare and Medicaid, wills and estate planning, health care directives, different types of senior living arrangements, home care, emotional matters, hospice, family involvement and Alzheimer's are discussed and explained. The book contains state by state resources and contact information for regulatory agencies, as well as web sites, organizations and recommended reading lists. Chapters are enhanced with tips, checklists and forms to guide the reader through the choices and problems faced when assisting a senior. The book also also provides information to help the reader plan for his or her own senior years.


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