{"product_id":"b0h8bc8k8n","title":"Solo Aging: Living Well \u0026 Planning Ahead","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost aging advice assumes someone else will be there. What if there isn't a default person?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho drives you home when a medical procedure requires an adult escort? Who can speak for you if you can't? Who notices when something changes, knows where your documents are, or steps in when you need help?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're aging without a spouse or adult children you can automatically rely on, those jobs don't disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou need a plan for who will do them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSolo Aging: Living Well \u0026amp; Planning Ahead  is a practical guide to building that plan — the people, decision-makers, backups, housing choices, safeguards, and documents that can make aging independently more workable and more secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a book about loneliness.  It's about making sure the practical jobs of aging have someone assigned to them before you need help.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINSIDE, YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e• Build a  care network  with different people for different jobs — and backups for them\u003cbr\u003e\n• Choose  healthcare and financial decision-makers  and understand the authority they may need\u003cbr\u003e\n• Prepare for  medical appointments, procedures, emergencies , and situations where an  adult escort is required\u003cbr\u003e\n• Create  safeguards  in case memory, judgment, or financial decision-making begins to change\u003cbr\u003e\n• Evaluate  aging in place , Life Plan Communities, senior co-housing, the Village movement, PACE, and other housing options\u003cbr\u003e\n• Understand  long-term-care planning  and why Medicare generally does not cover ongoing custodial care\u003cbr\u003e\n•  Organize your documents , final wishes, and key roles so someone else can actually find and use the plan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery chapter ends with one concrete action, so you're not simply reading about what you should do. You're building the plan as you go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBY THE END, YOU'LL HAVE WORKED TOWARD:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e• Your people and their backups\u003cbr\u003e\n• Your healthcare and financial decision-makers\u003cbr\u003e\n• Your key documents and where they live\u003cbr\u003e\n• Your housing and care intentions\u003cbr\u003e\n• Your cognitive-decline safeguards\u003cbr\u003e\n• Your final-wishes roles\u003cbr\u003e\n•  A one-page plan someone else can actually use\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is for people who are never married, divorced, widowed, child-free, without dependable family nearby — or simply know they cannot assume someone else will handle it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAging alone is not the same as aging without a plan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924705050869,"sku":"YSL53770","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/61Gdhy1SbZL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673557","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0h8bc8k8n","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}