ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers A Guide to Making it Manageable

by Hurme, Sally Balch

• ISBN13: 9781634251518
• ISBN10: 1634251512
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-05-11
• Publisher: American Bar Association

Summary

Caregiving is inevitably fraught with complex issues—emotional as well as medical, financial, and legal. The ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers by Sally Balch Hurme can help organize the responsibilities that caregivers face.

In one place, you’ll be able to record and update the myriad details you need to keep track of. And if you don’t know where to start, this invaluable tool tells you, step by step, what you need and why.

You can easily personalize the to-do lists, either in the book or electronically, and have them available for quick reference for your caregiving team—family, friends, aides, and medical, financial, and legal professionals.

This new book—third in the Checklist series from AARP and the ABA—will save you time and simplify the daunting tasks of caregiving. Hurme shows you how to become a trusted steward—without losing your sanity.

A companion to the PBS documentary (June 2015) and Amy Goyer’s ABA/AARP Juggling Life, Work, and Caregiving.

Author Biography

Sally Balch Hurme is an elder law attorney currently with the AARP Health Education team explaining the workings of the Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Marketplaces. She has also worked on a wide variety of issues including advance care planning, surrogate decision making, consumer fraud, elder abuse and financial security. Ms. Hurme was an advisor to the Uniform Law Commission in the drafting of the uniform guardianship jurisdiction act. She also was a member of the U.S. State Department delegation that drafted the Hague International Convention on the Protection of Adults. She has authored 20 law review articles and book chapters on various elder law issues and taught elder law at George Washington University Law School. She is author of The ABA Checklist for Family Heirs, ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Survivors and the ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Heirs. She received her law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University, Washington, D.C., and her bachelor's degree from Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans.