Eldercare for Dummies

Cope with legal, financial, and medical issues

Minimize anxiety and stress and make the later years golden

Need help caring for an elderly loved one? This sensitive, reassuring guide provides strategies for assessing older persons' needs, arranging for care, ensuring their safety, and enhancing quality of life - all while respecting their dignity. You'll see how to manage physical disabilities and chronic health problems, evaluate nursing homes, and help elders control their destinies.

The Dummies Way
* Explanations in plain English
* Get in, get out information
* Icons and other navigational aids
* Tear-out cheat sheet
* Top ten lists
* A dash of humor and fun

Author: Rachelle Zukerman
Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 05/23/2003
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.40w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780764524691

About the Author
Rachelle Zukerman, PhD (Woodland Hills, CA), is a gerontologist, licensed clinical social worker, and Associate Professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Dr. Zukerman taught clinical gerontology as a visiting professor at Hong Kong University and was a 1998--99 Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan where she taught counseling methods for elderly clients and their families.

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