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About this Book
"This book provides an invaluable
look at the important issues facing seniors written by a pioneering expert
in the field. I'm happy to see this information is now available to the
public."
—Karen
Knutson, Director of Client Services at SeniorBridge
Trusted Advice On How to Secure Your
Future
and Avoid Costly Mistakes
Planning the rest of your life means facing diffi cult decisions and potential
risks. How do you protect your retirement finances? How does your family
cope with inevitable change? How do you ensure that you get the medical
care you need?
Next Steps is written for older Americans, their Baby Boomer children, and
everyone who cares for an older family member. It is a practical and comprehensive guide that will help you
build a strategy for coping with the unique legal, medical, financial and
personal challenges of aging. Jan Warner and Jan Collins, America’s trusted experts on later life
planning and authors of the nationally syndicated column NextSteps, 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. The array of topics includes:
• financial power of attorney •
medical directives
• health care power of attorney •
reverse mortgages
• financial planning • living with
adult children
• Medicare and Medicaid • avoid
elderly-targeted scams
• guardianships/ conservatorships •
living trusts
Next Steps thoroughly
covers topic such as cohabitation, divorce, remarriage, incapacity, medical
directives, and long-term care. Also discussed are sensitive issues such
as how to avoid family power struggles over an incapacitated parent's
health-care wishes or estate, and how to protect your rights in a nursing
home environment.
This resource is an essential tool in creating a detailed plan to
deal with the sometimes unseen problems and crises that aging inevitably
brings, and is the only resource that covers all of these important issues.
About
the Authors
Jan Warner received
his A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina and earned
a Master of Legal Letters (L.L.M.) in Taxation from the Emory University
School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founding partner and
shareholder of ElderLaw Services of South Carolina, P.A./Warner Payne &
Black, L.L.P., a law firm that limits its practice to matters affecting
the family and the elderly, including estate and long-term care planning,
planning for incapacity, Medicaid qualification, and litigation in South
Carolina courts. He is a Certified Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
He is a
frequent lecturer at legal education and public information programs
throughout the United States. His articles have been published in national
and state legal publications, and he has been quoted in articles that have
appeared in Kiplinger's, the Wall Street Journal, Modern
Maturity, and many other national publications.
He has
also been featured on radio in manymajor metropolitan areas.
Warner conceived and for 21 years has co-authored Flying Solo®, a
weekly newspaper column about divorce. He also conceived and for 11 years
has co-authored NextSteps®, a weekly newspaper column about matters affecting
the elderly, both syndicated by United Media (United Features Syndicate).
For more than 15 years, Warner has maintained the following helpful informational websites: www.nextsteps.net,
www.flyingsolo.com, and www.lifemanagement.com
Jan Collins began coauthoring Flying Solo® in 1989 and
NextSteps™ in 1998. She has more than 40 years of experience as a journalist,
writer, and editor. She has worked as a reporter for newspapers in
Michigan, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and has been an editor and
writer at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina,
since 1983.
Collins is also a special correspondent for The
(London) Economist. She has published hundreds of articles and
contributed chapters to three books, and has won numerous awards for her
writing and editing.
She was granted a Nieman Fellowship at
Harvard University and a Congressional Fellowship in Washington, D.C.
Collins is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors
(ASJA).
Collins holds a bachelor's degree from
Georgetown University and a Master's degree from the University of
Michigan. Visit her website at www.jan-collins.com.
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