Eldercare 101: A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing, Updated Edition

Within this tumultuous landscape, aging and illness is inevitable and we need a framework to help us ensure that seniors receive the best care possible. Whether you’re in the midst of caring for someone you love or seeking to arm yourself with knowledge about the caregiving journey before the time comes, having access to the right information will be your greatest asset for effective eldercare planning and crisis management.Caregiving is a top priority in America’s aging landscape as 78 million baby boomers will be 65 by 2030. Care managing coach Mary Jo Saavedra uses her Six Pillars of Aging Wellbeing™ framework to explore the needs, desires, and opportunities for healthy and safe aging and end-of-life care, something that we will all need to consider at some point or another. These pillars include living environment, legal, spiritual, social, medical, and financial. Full of resources, tips, and management tools, this helpful guide is a one stop shop for the best and most compassionate advice by experts for common eldercare situations and is instrumental in guiding you through the maze of decisions and challengers that elders inevitably face for long-term planning and caregiving.