After the highly respected author discovered a resident's box of
old love letters as teenage nursing-home aide in 1977, her view of
elderly patients was altered and inspired her lifelong career of
geriatric care and advocating for quality elder care. She provides
us an overview of aging and elder care in the U.S in this
best-selling and award winning book. Drawing upon over 3 decades of
experience and her interviews with seniors, Angil Tarach-Ritchey
RN, GCM reveals the rich inner worlds of the elderly, conveys their
advice and describes her vision of a community-based,
intergenerational, and sustainable approach to senior living and
care for our aging future as we face the Elder Boom crisis. Who
Will Benefit From Reading Behind the Old Face? 1. Seniors now and
into the future. If the treatment and care of older adults didn't
need improving, this book would have not been written. This is the
overall intention and motivation of the author. 2. Baby Boomers
that either won't be able to, or do not want to pay between
$100,000.00 and over $210,000.00 for care in 20 years or so.
Statistically 70% of those over 65 years of age will need some
amount of care for an average of 3 years. If you want a positive
and uplifting aging future in your own home that you can look
forward to rather than dread, and won't send you to the poorhouse
this book is for you 3. Caregivers, both family caregivers and
professionals in healthcare, since the vast majority will care for
seniors in one capacity or another and are all of us are aging too.
Whether you are a nurse's aide in a skilled nursing home, a
physician in ER, a volunteer directing patients, a social worker,
nurse, therapist, or are in insurance sales or financial planning,
we all come in contact with seniors and need to better understand
aging in those we care and interact with, and ourselves. 4.
Business Owners are losing 34 billion dollars annually in lost
productivity related to employed family caregivers and this problem
is going to get much deeper and far reaching than most realize as
care costs become unaffordable for the vast majority, and
government programs that are currently helping those under the
poverty line will not be able to meet future costs. Find out how
you can become part of the solution 5. Government Officials in
aging, housing, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Veterans
Administration who have a vested interest in how our nation will
handle 78 million aging boomers. 6. Philanthropists, Foundations,
Major Corporations, Patient Advocates, Hospitals, and other
nonprofits interested in aging, senior health, the changing
population, social change, and being a part of a great aging
future. 7. Our country as a whole because the one thing we have in
common from the day we were born is we are all aging. Find out how
to reduce healthcare and custodial care costs all without taxing
family members and US businesses.
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