How to Find the Best Eldercare

Marilyn Rantz, RN, PhD and Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher, RN, PhD each have more than two decades of experience researching and improving American eldercare. They are two-time winners of the American Journal of Nursing's Book of the Year Award. Marilyn Rantz lives in Columbia, Missouri; Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher lives in Colfax, Wisconsin.

 This book will hellp you find answers by providing questions to ask about a variety of service options. They have included easy-to-use guides for assisted-living facilities and nursing homes that allow you to evaluate such places in a twenty- to thirty-minute walk-through. They  have carefully designed and tested the guides so that you can be sure they will give the information you need about quality care.

They also offer advice on how to adapt to life in any new type of
housing, whether it’s senior housing, assisted living, or a nursing home,
and we suggest ways to finance care and locate resources locally and nationwide.

Their advice we’ve assembled here is based on years of experience working in and managing homecare, independent living, assisted living, and nursing homes. It’s also based on research that the authors and
other professionals have conducted on the quality of care in various settings—aging in place, assisted living, and nursing homes—and on conversations we’ve had with hundreds of long-term care staff members.

How to find the best eldercare was published in June, 2009 by Fairview Press. ISBN: 9781577491903  http://www.nursinghomehelp.org/eldercarebook.pdf