Eldercare for Dummies

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
• Published by: For Dummies
• Edition: 1st Edition May 1, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764524690
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764524691
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Description
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

Book Info
Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Consumer text provides strategies for assessing older people's needs, arranging for care, ensuring their safety, and enhancing their quality of life, all while respecting their dignity. Illustrates how to manage physical disabilities and chronic health problems and how to evaluate nursing homes. Softcover.

Reader Reviews
I made my holiday trip to the bookstore last week. I purchased a copy of Eldercare for Dummies, by Rachelle Zukerman, PhD. The book is packed with light humor and also great tips. I especially liked Chapter 2 with the section on how to help when help is refused.It's great.