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Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years: Critical Information to Maximize Their Independence and Make Sure They Get the Care They Need Paperback – March 21, 2023

by Star Bradbury (Author)
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No matter your parents’ age or stage of life, this comprehensive guide walks you step-by-step through developing a flexible, proactive plan that will allow you to make the most informed decisions for your parents’ well-being—and your own.

Millions of Americans are in an active caregiver role or will be in one in the future, yet few have a solid plan for the inevitable challenges of aging.

Whether your parents are in their 60s or their 90s, and whether they have years of health ahead of them or already need more support, Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years provides the framework and information you need to prepare for and handle with confidence the changes to come.

The responsibility of caring for an aging loved one is often daunting—and when trouble hits, the sudden barrage of questions you face can be overwhelming. Have your parents executed their Advance Directives? Do you know what to look for in a senior community (and how to ensure a spot is available when you need it)? If your parents want to stay in their home, what can you do to ensure their safety?

Certified aging life care specialist and CEO of Senior Living Strategies Star Bradbury draws on her 25 years of experience in senior living to bring you an up-to-date, comprehensive guide to navigating the tricky waters ahead—starting with putting a plan in place now that maximizes your parents’ independence while providing them with the support they need.

Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years covers:
  • How to bring up sensitive topics with your aging parents
  • Steps you can take to keep your parents safely independent in their own homes for longer
  • Red flags that indicate your parents may need more help
  • Senior living options and the key questions to ask in choosing any kind of retirement community
  • Alternative living arrangements to consider for aging parents, such as senior roommates, cohousing, and/or niche retirement communities
  • How to get help paying for your parents’ medical care (you have more options than you think!)
  • Legal and financial documents to have on hand in case of a sudden medical emergency
  • Insider tips, helpful checklists, and more

Don’t wait for a crisis to begin planning for the future. Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years is an indispensable blueprint that will give you the tools and knowledge you need to advocate for your parents when they need you most.
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  6. ISBN-10
    1637742479
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“Star Bradbury’s book, Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years reflects her years of experience as director of assisted-living and memory-care facilities. Her insider knowledge and know-how play particular importance when dealing with dementia and what can be done ahead of time . . . This book will hold the reader’s hand through the entire caregiving journey.”
—Joy Loverde, author of Who Will Take Care of Me When I’m Old and The Complete Eldercare Planner
 
“Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years is an exceptionally comprehensive compendium of the problems, pitfalls, opportunities, and solutions people face when helping the elderly navigate the aging and dying process . . . Star covers it all, and she covers it well.”
—Samuel Harrington, MD, author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life
 
“Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years comes from Star Bradbury’s decades of enriched experiences with thousands of elders and their adult children while educating, working with, and helping them to plan ahead for later life. Her delightful conversational warmth carries you gently through fully delineated details and critical questions.”
—Leilani Mangerian Doty, PhD, former director of the University of Florida Cognitive and Memory Disorder Clinic
 
“Star Bradbury beautifully combines her knowledge, experience, and compassion into a must-have guide to help aging parents enjoy their senior years in the healthiest, safest, and most dignified way. This is the compass we have needed—from a navigator we can trust.”
—Dr. Claudia Cometa, owner of Peace Advocacy Group
 
“As an elder law attorney, I plan to give Star’s book to all my clients . . . The wide range of issues—discussing how we want to die, how to use long-term care insurance, how to prevent exploitation, and finally how to pay for it all! It’s a handbook on how we can help our loved ones walk through the sunset chapter of their lives with grace and independence.”
—Shannon Miller, certified elder law Attorney and former president of the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys
 
“Star Bradbury’s new book to the rescue! Building on a lifetime of personal and professional experience, each of her chapters will be an invaluable resource for older persons and their families seeking the best courses of action.”
—Stephen M. Golant, PhD, professor at the University of Florida and author of Aging in the Right Place
 
“At last, a comprehensive approach to helping you navigate the complex stage of life faced by your aging parents. Star’s excellent publication provides thoughtful, expert guidance and is a must read for those with aging parents. We are honored to be included as a recommended resource.”
—Marci Lobel-Esrig, founder, CEO, and general counsel for SilverBills
 
“Star Bradbury has written an excellently paced guide with a focused, detailed timetable for long-term care planning . . . It is not unusual to postpone difficult and challenging life-changing decisions, but Successfully Navigating Your Parents Senior Years will give you the confidence needed to take the first step forward.”
—Flory Antiga-Stephens, LCSW, case manager for the Senior Healthcare Center at Melrose
 
“As a certified geriatric care manager, I’m aware that most people don’t know how many options and resources are out there for seniors. Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years will leave you fully informed, with confidence and clear expectations for what the future will bring.”
—Cindy Flowers, certified geriatric care manager and Florida Aging Life Care Association chapter president
 
“In my ministry and as the beloved elders in my family age, I have frequently longed for a resource like this. Here Star offers her considerable wisdom and expertise, to fill the gap and lead the way, empowering readers with the information they need to ask good questions, have difficult conversations, and make thoughtful plans. Aging is inevitable (if we are lucky!), but this book equips us to move into our later years (and those of our loved ones) with hope and care—no luck required.” 
—Rev. Bromleigh McCleneghan, writer and coordinating minister at the United Church of Gainesville
 
“The perfect handbook for any caregiver! Star Bradbury is a compassionate, reliable guide through the stressful realities of aging and the minutiae of senior living, with sage advice, adaptable plans, and resources for parents and children alike. Having worked with Star over the years, I can attest to her knowledge on the critical information needed to age successfully.”
—Kristen Griffis, chief executive officer of Elder Options
 
“A fantastic and badly needed road map—one which incorporates a rare blend of wisdom and experience with the modern technologies that can help simplify a complex journey.”
—Todd Rovak, Carefull app cofounder

About the Author

Aging Life Care Specialist® and CEO of Senior Living Strategies Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare. She has 25 years of experience in the industry and is the founder of Senior Living Strategies and an aging life care expert. She specializes in developing resilient and flexible plans that promote independence and focuses on optimal quality of life for elders.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BenBella Books (March 21, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1637742479
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1637742471
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 8.94 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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As a senior living expert, Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare.

Based on her 25 years of real-world experience, Star's book, Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years, offers a comprehensive guide that walks families through developing a flexible proactive plan that focuses on keeping loved ones independent for as long as possible no matter their age.

A former Florida licensed administrator and Executive Director for both an Assisted Living and Memory Care facility, Star has a broad understanding of the variety of options and choices families face. Her 18 years working with a nationally recognized Life Care Community allows her to share her expertise in this otherwise confusing and complex senior living option as well. Star shares some of the rules and regulations governing admissions in senior living, an overview of costs to expect, and the right questions to ask that are critical during times of need.

Star's insider experience is invaluable to anyone wanting to make sure they know how to choose the right community for a loved one, helps their parents age in place successfully, or find more help when their parents' need more care. Her realistic approach is refreshing and her principles to aging well and making crucial decisions can be applied immediately.

As the founder of Senior Living Strategies, and an Aging Life Care Specialist with ALCA (Aging Life Care Association) she regularly collaborates and consults with individuals and families from all walks of life as well as professionals in the legal, medical, financial, and long-term care insurance worlds.

Her passion is to help families develop a comprehensive, proactive plan that will allow them to make the best most informed decisions---for their parents' well-being and their own. Having lost both sets of parents, in-laws, a sister, and many friends, she has the compassion and understanding as well as the professional experience to guide you.

Today, Star's focus remains on helping seniors and their families learn how to age successfully through consulting, speaking engagements to groups and conferences, and teaching workshops on the following topics:

The Secret to Successfully Aging: How to Stay in Charge of Your Life

Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years

A Roadmap for Solo Agers

Making Sense of Senior Living: Decoding the Alphabet Soup of IL, AL, CCRC, ADL's, and More!

Long Distance Care Giving: How to Make the Impossible Possible

A Deep Dive into Life Care Communities: Are They Worth the High Cost?

Check out Star's keynote speeches, workshops and blog by visiting her website www.starbradbury.com

You can also watch her free educational videos on her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@starbradbury 4934

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Donna Allgaier-Lamberti
5.0 out of 5 stars Prompt Delivery Everything as Promised
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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Kathy Shanks
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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This is a wonderful book, easy to read and full of confirming the difficulties of aging and providing suggestions and options for helping others who are aging and ourselves by default. I wish I had discovered it when my parents, who are in their late nineties, were in their late seventies.
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Jason Neufeld
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't hide your head in the sand, preview what to expect as your parents age
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Star has written an excellent guide, containing important information about what to expect as your mother and father age. As an elder law attorney, I was so happy to find this book that provides real/concrete/practical information and resources that benefit both laymen and professionals in the senior-care space.
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Honey Leveen
5.0 out of 5 stars Very comprehensive
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
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"Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years" is for people wanting to ensure an honest, "eyes-wide-open" aging process that is dignified and considerate for themselves and their loved ones. Ms. Bradbury's book is adeptly written. It is accessible and easy to understand. She covers necessary legal documents, what they're for, how they work. She also does this for Medicare. long-term care, caregiving, housing choices, and much more. She gives pros and cons, based on decades of experience.
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German Girl in America
5.0 out of 5 stars A helpful guide
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2023
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This book has been a huge help. My parents are getting older, and I needed a guide to help them plan how they want to spend the next years of their lives. There's just so much that we don't know, or hadn't considered. This book gives great suggestions... and conversation starters.
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Terry O. Osmun
5.0 out of 5 stars So relevant and timely
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023
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I found Ms. Bradbury’s extensively researched and easily accessible book addresses relevant and important issues whether you are the child or the elder. I have recommended to both contemporaries and given it to my own children.
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Minerva Vazquez
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't wait until it's too late!
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
Planning for seniors is so much more effective when done prior to a crisis. Star does an excellent job of providing readers with a practical roadmap to follow. This book is a terrific guide for readers on things to consider, questions to ask, and things you must know! Star's extensive experience also provides educational nuggets through out the book. I highly recommend it for anyone who truly cares about the future of their beloved senior(s)!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Roadmap
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2023
If your parents don't want to talk about their independence, aging, moving, or accepting help, this book will be your trusted companion. Star Bradbury brings her years of experience in the senior industry to provide not only a roadmap for how to disseminate information around living communities, but language for discussing tough topics with parents.
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