Offers advice and recommendations from AARP experts and other specialists on planning for the financial, medical, legal, and personal aspects of long-term elder care.

Compact new guide walks you - or your clients - through the maze of issues to consider when making long-term care choices. Focuses on the most common, crucial factors for determining long-term care needs, including: - Funding Long term care - Long-term care for a young or disabled person - How to qualify for government care programs - Evaluating long-term care settings and facilities - Ins & outs of long-term care insurance policies: What do they cover? What don't they?? Are they affordable?? When clients think these issues through now, difficult choices will be easier down the road.Most people embrace life with a positive outlook on longevity and goodhealth, rarely considering the alternative. But most of us - young or old, single or married with children - will need to contemplate long-term care decisions for ourselves or a loved one eventually. These decisions can be emotionally and financially draining if advance preparations have not been made.Now, a compact new guide walks you through the maze of issues you need to consider when making long-term care choices. In his simple, straightforward style financial planning expert Don Korn focuses on the most common and crucial factors for determining long-term care needs, including: o Funding long-term care - what options are available if financialresources are not?o Long-term care for a young or disabled person - do the same policies apply?o How to qualify for government care programs such as Medicaid -and is that the best route for the family or the heirs?o Evaluating long-term care settings and facilities - what to look for, and how to guarantee that choices are honored?

For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.

"[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.