Growing older can turn into financial, emotional, physical betrayal and neglect.

Aging in America is a "hands on" consumer guide to help you detect, prevent, and protect against elder abuse. Elder abuse is the new silent killer and a national crisis. Don't you want to know the best way to protect yourself now at a very low cost? It's an easy and informative listen.

Are you a baby boomer worried about growing older? Maybe assisted living, at home care or a nursing home? Alone, broke, medical care, and palliative care denied, or your end of your life wishes ignored? If you like to listen to true stories that have a real lesson, this book grabs you and wakes you up to reality.

Everyone in my family trusted the people in the system to take care of our mom in her retirement years. The system failed us. The hospital staff, the doctors, the nurses, and those running the "skilled" nursing facility didn't seem to care at all in the end. This can happen to you. Bad things don't just happen to other people.

Created after the overwhelming response from audiences to the book in 2018, the author has added in 2019, a fact filled detailed questionnaire and checklist as a bonus.

The questionnaire and checklist embodies in one easy to understand document over 40 years of legal experience with clients in estate planning and elder law. It asks the critical questions about your life and future, from today to the very end of your life, and provides a step-by-step path to document your thoughts and wishes. Practical suggestions to guide you to start the important decisions and discussions about your life with family and friends.

The questionnaire and checklist will lead you through:

Estate planning documents:

• Will - avoid estate disputes;
• Living trust - avoid probate or a guardianship
• Irrevocable trusts - estate tax planning, gifts, and Medicaid planning.

Advance directives:

• Durable powers of attorney for health care and/or finances - watch for undue influence or breach of fiduciary duties
• Living will - your chance to document all your medical wishes. How to avoid a guardianship.

Medical orders:

• A POLST - caution, this may become your life or death form
• HIPPA form for access to medical records now - request this form before it's too late.

These are legal and medical documents you would not find all in one book anywhere else. Hundreds of hours of legal experience condensed into one easy guide for you to use.

This is a true story of elder abuse describing the end of Rose's life and the cover-up that ensued. The end of your life should be compassionate and caring and not full of tragedy.

You only get one life - learn how to protect it!