Who Will Care for You in Your Time of Need . . . Formulating a Smart Family Plan to Age-in-Place
The Reckoning
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Whether you’re nearing retirement or have decades before you enter retirement, you will be confronted with an inevitable aging and caregiving crisis...Who will care for you in your time of need? People across generations from Baby-boomers to Millennials will eventually be facing a reckoning crisis, which in these modern days, many have not even considered let alone prepared a plan to safeguard your quality of life. In the upcoming future people will find themselves faced with several key questions. First, how will you manage to age-in-place (stay in your home) when your own independence is questioned? Second, will you have the resources and assistance to help manage your care? Third, will you have one or more chronic health conditions/disabilities that will jeopardize your future independence to live independently? And finally, in addition to your care, will you be responsible for the caring of a spouse, an aging parent, a family relative or friend? Millions of sandwiched generations from Baby Boomers to young adults are caring for elderly parents/grandparents, children and grandchildren will soon face in these modern days a reckoning crisis. Bringing attention to this crisis is an AARP Special Report "Valuing the Invaluable," which reports some 40 million Americans are unpaid family caregivers who devote time, assistance and support caring for loved ones. Most important to the many people caring for loved ones is one particular aspect of this crisis that we’ve seemed to entirely ignore. While caring for others...Who will care for you? What will happen when your health, memory and physical abilities jeopardize your independence and way of living? This book, therefore, aims to inform people, of all ages, to seriously ponder their future outlook on life as it pertains to ones lifestyle of aging and future caregiving needs to age-in-place. The primary focus of the book is getting people to understand the Seven Core Lifestyle Components for formulating an Early Smart Family Plan to Live Healthy to Age-in-Place. The book, written from the author's public health perspective and personal family caregiving experiences will help readers to formulate a Smart Aging-in-Place Family Plan for a future lifestyle of health and wellness, senior independence, and a safeguarded future quality of life.
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Who Will Care for You in Your Time of Need . . . Formulating a Smart Family Plan to Age-in-Place: The Reckoning Whether you’re nearing retirement or have decades before you enter retirement, you will be confronted with four inevitable lifestyle crises: 1) How will you manage your own care when your independence is in question? 2) Will you have the resources and assistance to help manage your care? 3) Will you have one or more chronic health conditions/disabilities that will jeopardize your future independence? 4) In addition to your care, will you be responsible for the care of an aging parent, family relative, or friend? This book aims to direct people of all ages to start thinking early about your future life by developing and formulating a smart family plan to live healthy and stay in your own home (aging-in-place). The goal is simple. Formulate early a smart aging-in-place plan for a future lifestyle of health, senior independence, and a safeguarded quality of life.
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John D. Hemphill is a thirty-seven-year-old retired senior public health advisor from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Before retiring in 2010, he spent ten years at CDC, Division of Injury Response, at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). There he has focused his public health passion on fall injury prevention by advocating and promoting environmental home modification and universal design solutions as an effective fall injury intervention for adults, regardless of age, to stay healthy and independent staying in their home (Aging-in-Place). In addition to his many years working on public health prevention programs, he and his wife spent time serving as unpaid family caregivers for both aging parents. He and his wife, a registered nurse, spent the past thirty-eight-plus years as distant-family caregivers for his elderly parents and the past twelve years as a full-time in-home family caregivers for his aging in-laws. John has parlayed his public health and family caregiving experiences to create key aging-in-place lifestyle lesson principles for living longer and better to maintain independence to age in place. In an effort to share his passion for caregiving lessons learned, he has taken the time to publish the first book edition, Who Will Care for You in Your Time of Need . . . Formulating a Smart Family Plan to Age-in-Place: The Reckoning