Elder Care Emergency Guide: What to Do When They Suddenly Need You
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
- Softcover
- New
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Condition: New
£ 19.46
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Print on Demand.
Seller Inventory # I-9798172746642
- Title
- Elder Care Emergency Guide: What to Do When They Suddenly Need You
- Author
- Kelleher, Nora J
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798172746642
Nobody hands you a manual the day you become the one who handles it. You get a phone call, a corridor, a clipboard, and a series of consequential decisions made on almost no sleep — while a system nobody has ever explained to you moves at its own speed around your parent.
This is that manual.
Not a memoir. Not 700 pages of reference you will never read at 2 a.m. A short, practical, plainly written guide to the first days, the first weeks, and the years that follow — organized so you can open it at the page that names your exact situation, do what it says, and close it again.
Inside, you will learn:
- The four words that decide who pays for everything that happens next — and why the federal notice that used to explain this to families was redesigned in 2026 and no longer does
- How to stop a discharge you believe is unsafe — the free appeal, the one deadline that matters, and the exact words to use
- Why "Medicare covers 100 days of rehab" is wrong, what the real structure is, and how to see the cliff coming
- The one sentence that explains the entire American long-term care system — and the four payers that exist once you understand it
- What never to sign, and why signing a facility agreement in your own name can make you personally liable
- The money almost nobody claims — programs that pay Medicare premiums, deductibles and drug costs, sitting unclaimed by millions of eligible people
- Medicaid without the myths — the five-year lookback, spend-down done properly, spousal protections, and what really happens to the house
- How to talk to a parent who says no — six different reasons for that "no," and what actually works on each
- The conversation about the car, and how to have it without losing the relationship
- How to get paid for the care you are already giving
- How things differ across the 50 states, with a state-by-state directory of exactly where to look
Written for the reader who has no money to spare. Every recommendation in this book is tagged Free, Medicaid, or Private-pay — and the free option is always listed first. Most books in this field quietly assume you can hire private nurses. This one assumes you cannot.
Built to be raided, not read. Short chapters. Word-for-word scripts, each with a branch for when your parent or the case manager does not cooperate. Printable checklists reproduced in full. A one-page emergency plan on the first spread, so you get something useful in sixty seconds.
And one chapter, near the end, on the things nobody prints — the resentment, the guilt, the wish that it were over, the parent who was never kind to you. You are not the only one. Almost no one says it out loud.
You did not choose this and you were not trained for it. This book will not make it easy. It will make you competent, and competence is what your parent actually needs from you now.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
California Books
Miami, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 3 to 7 business days | 2 to 5 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 9.07 |
Payment methods
Store description
We have 20 years experience selling books worldwide! Friendly customer support. Your satisfaction guaranteed!
Specialty
All authorized categoriesSeller's business information
Miramar International Services LLC
FL, U.S.A.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to California Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.