A Guide to Planning for Legal, Financial and Health Care
Every profession has its own set of verbs, adjectives, pronouns, nouns and general jargon that may require a classroom education to learn. For senior health, senior fitness, retirement planning it feel may feel like your are earning a degree just to have the minimal knowledge.
Lawyer and Certified Geriatric Care Manager Buckley Fricker has created a shortcut to that learning curve with her newest book, Elder Care: The Road to Growing Old is Not Paved. Fricker brings a very unique perspective to the subject and she tries to cut through the jargon.
Fricker explains, “I’m the only attorney and geriatric care manager in the country, so I do bring a unique prospective of understanding of a much bigger picture. I have covered so much about medical care, and social security, and also about the state planning documents, and also about who can help, whether it’s home health aide, companions, and geriatric care managers.”
She adds: “I talk about assisted living facilities, the different kinds, and nursing homes and what they cost, and what pays for it, financial options, like long term care insurance and annuities.”
She knows from where she speaks. Fricker followed in the footsteps of her mother who joined the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys in 1988. Fricker worked with her mother after she graduated from law school.
She says, “I want people to know about the future and what it is going to cost, and what it might look like, and what options are available, because on a daily basis I see what it looks like when somebody didn’t do that kind of planning and considering things 20 years earlier.”
Fricker says she wrote the book because she found many great books to help seniors but she wanted something different. “What I found is there wasn’t anything that was a straight forward reference manual, that really just gives the information as clear and as concise as possible, so that people can look things up and then if they feel like it applies to them or it gives them an idea of something to tackle and plan for, then they know and they can go and find the various professionals that they would need depending on what they found in the book. So, it doesn’t have heart felt stories in it – it’s just really a straight reference manual,” add Fricker.
Maybe most important, she eliminates the jargon, code words and professional terminology that can do more to confuse than to clarify.
She recommends, if you are interested, its easy to download from Amazon. Look at it briefly, and go form there. Use, Elder care – The Road To Growing Old Is Not Paved. When questions arise you can get quick answers about your questions: “Because there isn’t anybody else who is approaching it from the two specialized backgrounds that I have,” says Fricker.
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