Surviving Your Senior Years

Surviving Your Senior Years recognizes that advancing age significantly impacts daily living arrangements and financial futures. Most of us can't afford to get old and infirm. But able to or not, we do. And somehow we manage and exist from day to day, wondering how it will end. Until one day it does just that. There are helpful choices, however, that can be made along the way. Suddenly not going to work each day and having nothing to do can be very stressful. There are many common denominators, but there isn't a one-size-fits-all when planning for your retirement years. With advanced medicine, technology, and equipment, more of us seniors are living longer with better health, but eventually we may have serious problems to deal with and have to take care of ourselves or others. This book should aid those of you whose parents are approaching the age when they will need personal care inside or outside the home, but you are not exactly sure how to best help them. Far more significant for some people than dealing with physical needs is covering the tab for it all. It is only a matter of time before it will be financially impossible for individuals collectively and for the federal government to continue footing the bill for all the construction that is needed. The astronomical costs will continue to grow, and the eventual total is unknown. It will be well in excess of the current $500 billion annually in the United States alone. Eventually some of us may well be the ones that become expendable.