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There's No Place Like (a Nursing) Home: 4 Powerful Steps That Will Change Your Life | 
| Author: Karen Shoff
Publisher: Invisible Ink
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 684913
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 170
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0971684707
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.16
EAN: 9780971684706
ASIN: 0971684707
Publication Date: October 31, 2002
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Product Description
With proper planning you can continue to live in dignity, without going into a nursing home. This book describes the steps necessary to do that: P1. Long Term Care Insurance P2. Geriatric Care Management P3. Putting Your Plans In Writing (including a living will, written instructions on the care you want and how it will be paid for), and P4. Getting Allies (including your doctor, your lawyer, your CPA, your family and friends). PThe book describes how people are inadvertently put in nursing homes, how Mrs. Shoff kept her 96 year old father at her home after he had a major stroke, and all of the details of planning for your future comfort and dignity.
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Makes sense November 4, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Too many folks think they'll just go on state aid and let society take care of them. I agree with author Shoff that this industry is headed the same place as our Emergency Rooms in urban hospitals. And she explains the steps we can take to secure our senior years. If you are anywhere close to 50, read this book. If you're over 50, have them send it FedEx!
A Must Read Guide to the 'end game' of life May 23, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Karen Shoff produced a guide that did not exist before. This should be required reading as a part of everyman's life education: like how to swim, how to be a decent parent, how to do CPR and how to prepare for end of life infirmity. Let's face it: Modern medicine, safer cars, non-smoking and weight watchers are all conspiring to help us live longer. Great! So when we all succeed, then what? Read this book. It answers the question.
A Must Read Guide to the 'end game' of life May 23, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Karen Shoff produced a guide that did not exist before. This should be required reading as a part of everyman's life education: like how to swim, how to be a decent parent, how to do CPR and how to prepare for end of life infirmity. Let's face it: Modern medicine, safer cars, non-smoking and weight watchers are all conspiring to help us live longer. Great! So when we all succeed, then what? Read this book. It answers the question.
This Book will change your life May 22, 2003
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Where will you spend your old age? Will you live in a nursing home? Will they take you for walks when you want to go out? Will they help you reposition yourself in bed every couple of hours to help you avoid getting bedsores? Will they be able to get to you on time when you need assistance using the facilities? Will you miss you home? pWhat if you could stay in the comfort of your own home, with round the clock care if need be, with your choice of caregivers? What if this option was not only for the fabulously wealthy, but was in fact available to anyone and everyone at a fraction of the price of a nursing home? It is not as farfetched as it seems. It just takes some careful planning. pOur society has acknowledged that surviving old age takes preparation. Retirement funds, social security, and well-stocked shelves of volumes upon volumes of do-it-yourself guides are evidence of these sentiments. It is a wonder that amidst all the excitement, most people fail to prepare for illness and incapacitation. pBut Karen Shoff of Santa Monica California has vowed to make this ignorance a thing of the past. In her compelling and essential new book, There's No Place Like A Nursing Home, she details in a surprisingly fascinating manner the problems inherent in institutional life, and offers a step-by-step solution. The fast paced text is only enhance by the stories she masterfully tells. As a former Social Worker and Gerontologist, she was witness to the horrors of institutional life. Her experiences in institutional life fueled her passionate commitment to protecting her family, friends and clients from those very facilities. pHer goal is to help ensure each and every American a life of dignity, security, and comfort. She details steps that if taken, will free one from worry, and doubt. She tells her reader how he can stay in the comfort and dignity of his own home, while at the same time receiving care far superior to that offered in any institution for significantly less. Her solution is a combination of Long Term Care Insurance, careful planning, and a slew of incisive, original suggestions. As one of the foremost experts in her field, her book is invaluable. Our society owes Karen Shoff a debt of gratitude for opening up her vast expertise and experience for our benefit. pDon't wait any longer. There's No Place Like A Nursing Home will change your life.
There's No Place Like (a Nursing) Home January 5, 2003
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Mrs. Shoff has written a clear, convincing, heart-felt, elegantly organized treatise on how to age responsibly. It has rearranged and brightened up a very confused and bleak picture of what it means to age, derived from countless visits to nursing homes over the years. Instead of a sense of victimhood, I have caught a (liberating) glimpse of what it might mean - for me and my dear friends - to have a hand in determining our own destinies!
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