choices Planning the Rest of Your Life

COMMON SENSE STRATEGIES FOR RETIREMENT AND BEYONDStaying Healthy Physically, Emotionally and FinanciallyThis book shows how it is possible to change the way we look at the aging process by planning ahead rather than allowing chronic illness, financial reverses or incapacity to make choices for us. There are many books written about how to be a caregiver for the elderly and this will help that person but it is also for the person who is middle aged and thinking about aging. I have illustrated the fact that although aging is inevitable we can create a roadmap for planning how to welcome growing older knowing that we understand the process. It is with that knowledge that we can make provisions for some of what life has in store for us. I have divided the book into sections and provided resources and strategies to be used as needed but also to help the reader learn how to search for solutions on his or her own. There is a lot of help out there in the public sector but most of us need help finding out how to access it. Anecdotes and interviews with real people help to define what I am writing about. Most of the research I have done and the subjects I have chosen reflect the issues I have faced while caring for elderly relatives and have surfaced while consulting with friends as they searched for solutions to their own problems.Most of the resources in the book are found on the Internet because I feel that all of us have access to it with our own computers, through friends or at a library. It has opened up a wealth of information on health issues but I have made the reader aware that every Web site must be evaluated for accuracy, relevancy and timeliness and how to do that.Retirement is anelusive concept for many in this economic climate because there are people working well beyond what used to be considered retirement age. I talk about planning ahead, how relationships are affected and the possibility of career change. NutritioBaldwin, Leslie is the author of 'choices Planning the Rest of Your Life', published 2004 under ISBN 9781413432787 and ISBN 1413432786.