A Practical Guide to Planning for the
Best Half of Your Life
2010 National Mature Media Awards prize winner!
by Jan Warner & Jan Collins
authors of the nationally syndicated column NextSteps® $14.95 ($16.95 Canada) • 258 pages • Paperback
"This book provides an invaluable look at the important issues
facing seniors written by a pioneering expert in the field. I'm happy
to see this information is now available to the public." —Karen Knutson, Director of Client Services at SeniorBridge
Click below to hear Jan Warner and Jan Collins interviewed on South Carolina Business Review on SC ETV radio
Trusted Advice On How to Secure Your Future
and Avoid Costly Mistakes
There are more than 36 million Americans age 65 or over, their Baby
Boomer children, and 22 million family-member caregivers, all grappling with
the major decisions that accompany the latter stages of life. This book is for
them.
Next Steps—written by two experts with decades of experience between
them—is a comprehensive guide that instructs readers how to put together a plan,
backed by a supporting cast of professionals, that will maximize their options
and ensure their wishes are met on an array of topics:
• financial power of attorney
• health care power of attorney
• Medicare and Medicaid
• guardianships/conservatorships
• medical directives
• reverse mortgages
• living with adult children
• avoid elderly-targeted scams
Next Steps thoroughly covers topics such as cohabitation, divorce,
remarriage, incapacity, medical directives, and long-term care. Also discussed
are sensitive issues such as how to avoid family power struggles over an incapacitated
parent's health-care wishes or estate, and how to protect your rights in
a nursing home environment.
This resource is an essential tool in creating a detailed plan to deal with
the sometimes unseen problems and crises that aging inevitably brings, and is the
only resource that covers all of these important issues.
