elder care

Update: Contest now closed. The winner is Vangroovyboy

As a thank you to all our readers and a follow-up to our ‘Avoiding Caregiver’s Stress: A Health and Financial Checklist‘ post, we are giving away 1 free copy of a book that provides the latest information on everything from financing a longer life to in-home assisted-living care. The book is authored by Joy Loverde and is called The Complete Eldercare Planner, Revised and Updated Edition: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help. Joy Loverde is a consultant for the fast-growing mature-market industry. With over 25 years of experience as a media spokesperson, Joy has been featured on the Today show, CBS’s Early Show, CNN Headline News, Fox News, and National Public Radio and in Consumer Reports, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post among others. Unlike other books on the topic, The Complete Eldercare Planner is a comprehensive resource that includes time and money saving checklists, worksheets, websites, practical step-by-step action plans, low-cost resources, and questions to ask professionals. Whether you are someone who is currently taking care of an elder or are considering make the commitment to care for someone in the future, this book provides insights and advice on:

• Getting Help
• Long-Distance Caregiving
• Moving out of the Family Home
• Essential Questions to Ask
• Responding to an Emergency
• Is Spirituality Good Medicine?
• Managing Guilt
• Juggling Work and Family
• Paying for Care
• Scam artist tell-tale signs
• Managing Medications
• Saying Good-bye

Approximately 350 pages long, consider The Complete Eldercare Planner a guide that shows you not only how to make those tough decisions when taking care of older relatives but also one that provides you with the actionable steps, checklists and resources to help you carry out those decisions. Before we conclude our chatter about this book, we should mention that the book was written for Americans predominantly and as such a number of the websites and resources referred to in the book might not apply directly to Canadians. Regardless, the book contains a wealth of information.

Good Luck Everyone!

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How To Enter

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You can earn up to 8 entries in the following ways:

• Earn 1 entry: Leave a comment on this contest post. Nothing in poor taste and no using vulgarities. NOTE: There is no need to leave a comment to tell me you tweeted, or that you added ‘liked’ Investing Thesis on Facebook – we can monitor that ourselves. Superfluous comments will be deleted. Only one comment will be counted towards the giveaway.
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Contest closes August 13th, 2010 at 11:59pm EST.

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Contest Rules

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1. Contest open to residents of Canada and the USA only.
2. Entries must be earned or submitted before 11:59pm EST on August 13th, 2010.
3. The winner will be announced on August 16th, 2010.
4. For comment entries, you must submit a valid email address in the comment form. Don’t worry, it will not be visible to anyone but us and it will never be shared or sold to anyone either.
5. We reserve the right to delete or disqualify any entries on reasonable grounds. For example, profanity will result in disqualification.
6. The winner will be contacted using the email address provided or by direct tweet, or by any other reasonable efforts. The winner will have exactly 1 week after we initiate contact to provide their full contact details in order to claim their prize. I will make all reasonable efforts to get in touch with the winners.
7. The winners will be drawn at random. If the winner does not claim their prize, a new draw will be held for the prize.

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