Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors: What Your Family Needs to Know About Finding and Financing, Medicare, Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, Home Care, Adult Day Care
by Trudy Lieberman (Editor), Consumer Reports Editors
"Whether you're exploring options for yourself or for your aging parents, you know that navigating the world of health care services and long-term-care facilities can be a daunting task. Consumer Reports, unrivaled in its unbiased expertise, provides the essential guide to getting the best care.
"Filled with hands-on practical advice in a user-friendly tone and format,
this invaluable handbook will help you find the right services and secure them at the lowest cost. How can you take advantage of pharmaceutical company drug-assistance programs? What essential services should a home health aide provide? How can you calculate annual health care expenses? How do you decipher a state survey report for a nursing home? Where can you find adult day care? What should you look for in an assisted-living contract? You'll find the answers to these and hundreds of other questions in this book, including:
The ins and outs of paying for health care services, including Medicare coverage and insurance options.
How to find the best long-term care, whether at home or in the community, whether you're looking at assisted-living facilities or nursing homes --
and how to pay for it.
City-by-city ratings for Medicare HMOs and Medicare supplement insurance policies,
as well as a guide to how well your state is monitoring nursing homes.
Easy-to-use worksheets and tables to help you figure out your assets, judge an assisted-living facility, compare home care costs, evaluate an HMO drug plan, and much, much more.
Comprehensive appendixes to guide you to state-by-state information on insurance counseling, advocacy groups for the elderly, other helpful organizations,
and more."
Getting the Most Out of Medicare and Medicare Supplement Insurance
by Aid Association for Lutherans (Editor)
From the Publisher
"Getting the Most Out of Medicare and Medicare Supplement Insurance is a Gold Award winner of the Mature Media National Awards Program and a Bronze Award winner in the National Health Information Awards Program.
"When Medicare was established in 1965, it was expected to pay for 80 percent of the health care costs of persons who are 65 and older.
Today, as a result of rising costs, Medicare pays for less than half of these costs. This book helps readers understand their Medicare coverage and shows how to cover the gaps in times of need. It covers Medicare Part A and Part B, Medicare supplement insurance, how to make Medicare and other insurance be effective for the reader, how to file Medicare appeals and includes helpful consumer tips for saving money.
"A key section that has been praised by users includes a sample bill-paying log sheet and additional blank sheets that can be photocopied. This permits the reader to monitor and document his/her bills and follow up on the outcome."
The Medicaid Planning Handbook: A Guide to Protecting Your Family's Assets from Catastropic Nursing Home Costs (2nd Rev Ed)
by Alexander A., Jr. Bove
From Ingram
"A guide for seniors, disabled individuals, and their families explains how to preserve personal assets while ensuring long-term care, covering such topics as interfamily transfers and trusts..."
The Medicare Answer Book
by Connacht Cash
"User friendly guide for understanding and coping with Medicare.
The book provides definitions of commonly misunderstood terms, useful addresses and phone numbers and extremely practical advice about how to keep from being overwhelmed by the paperwork."
Medicare Made Easy (Serial)
by Charles B. Inlander, Michael A. Donio
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