Next Steps

Written for older people, their Baby Boomer children, and everyone who cares for an older family member, this practical and comprehensive guide will help you build a strategy for coping with the unique legal, medical, financial, and personal challenges of ageing. Jan Warner and Jan Collins, America''s trusted experts on later life planning, put decades of experience into helping you create a step-by-step plan to protect your assets, your family, your health, and your personal autonomy in later life. In this book you will learn how to build a team of trusted legal, financial, and medical professionals to protect your interests; what should be included in important documents such as wills and financial and medical powers of attorney; the pros and cons of living trusts and reverse mortgages; the basics of Medicare and Medicaid; how to avoid scams that target the elderly; and how to live with adult children. You will also learn how to make the right choices in health-care and long-term care planning, and even how to deal with the most sensitive aspects of later life, including divorce, remarriage, incapacity, and protection of your rights in a nursing home. This is a must-have guide to protecting your future, your family, and your finances in the second half of life.