Navigating Your Later Years For Dummies

Expert advice to help you choose the best care options for the long term

We’re living exciting bonus years—decades that our parents and grandparents didn’t have. But how do we learn to navigate the choices when it’s all new? Where to live. How to get the best medical care. What to do about wills and trusts and estate planning. How to find community resources. And how to pay for it all. Questions abound. But getting accurate information and answers wasn’t easy. Until now.

AARP's Long-Term Care Options For Dummies by Carol Levine helps you and your family understand the growing range of opportunities that have become available in recent years. Even more importantly, it helps you decide the next steps to live the life you choose, no matter your specific circumstances and needs. 

You'll learn how to modify your home to stay there as long as it suits your needs. And if you want to move, you’ll learn about how to find the best choices for you. You’ll find expert guidance on getting the best from Medicare and transitioning to Medicaid, should that become necessary. You’ll learn how to assess whether long-term care insurance is a good investment. You’ll also learn about making your finances stretch and determine what legal documents you have—and what you may still need. Family caregivers, veterans, and LGBT persons will find resources for their specific needs—all in easy-to-understand language, with step-by-step guidance.

With this new comprehensive book, you’ll get the information and resources you need to face the greatest challenges facing us as we live the life we choose. Here, finally, is a detailed roadmap for you and your family.

Carol Levine directs the Families and Health Care Project at the United Hospital Fund in New York. She is an expert on aging, health, long-term care, and family caregiving, and writes on those topics for both professional and consumer audiences.