Get a Signed Copy of “Stages of Senior Care”

Blog Post by Mike Brunt

By now, many of you have heard about a new book entitled, Stages of Senior Care: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Making the Best Decisions. I’ve been talking a lot about this book since it was published last year, and I want to use this blog entry to help spread the word about the book and how it can help. To make it a little more fun, I have three copies of the book, signed by the author, for the first three of you who email me at mike.brunt@homeinstead.com to request your copy.

More About the Book

The book was written by the founders of Home Instead Senior Care, Paul and Lori Hogan. It quickly rose to the status of a USA Today Bestseller and is described by Mehmet Oz, M.D. as “Informative, complete, and practical. This book will guide family caregivers through the surprisingly complex world of senior care.”

The emotion-charged process of providing care for your aging parents has become more complex over the past 20 years. What used to be a binary decision – choosing between family care at home and a nursing home – is now a maze of bewildering options and alternatives for the uninformed.

Stages of Senior Care guides readers through this process by providing a clear and practical presentation of:

• The options
• The pros and cons of each
• The relative costs
• What to look for
• What to avoid
• The pitfalls
• How to know which option is right when
• How to pay for services and
• How to deal with complications (family conflict, and caregiver stress) that are almost certain to occur.

Stages includes checklists and diagnostics designed to help families make good, life-affecting decisions while confidently planning the best care for those they love most.

Based on research, up-to-date information and the experience of 15 years in the senior care industry, the Hogans have provided a book that will take the trauma out of decision making, eliminate guilt, and build the confidence for those thrust into the position of making care decisions.

All of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Home Instead Senior Care Foundation. The foundation exists to support local non-profit groups that improve the quality of life for seniors. In recent years, Portland based, Elders in Action, was a recipient of grant money from the foundation. 

See the table of contents and read excerpts from the book at www.stagesofseniorcare.com.

More About the Authors

Paul and Lori Hogan’s inspiration to start Home Instead Senior Care came after Paul’s mother brought his grandmother home to live with them. Paul’s mom was one of twelve kids, but she was the one who lived the closest and the one who was most willing to “take care of Mom.”

Paul said his mom had no idea what she was getting into, but fortunately, Grandma Manhart had 12 children, 50 grandchildren, and 51 great grandchildren.

There were a lot of people to draw on for help, and it seemed to Paul that everyone did their part to encourage, stimulate, and assist Grandma Manhart. In fact, she did so well with this family assistance that she lived another 11 years instead of the 1 year that doctors had previously estimated. Paul and his wife Lori were amazed at the difference the personal attention and assistance made for Grandma Manhart, and they wondered how other families with fewer children were coping with this challenge.

So, Paul and Lori started Home Instead Senior Care in 1994 to provide the benefits of non-medical in-home care to other families. Before that time, there were really two choices when beloved seniors began to fail – care by family members at home or care at a nursing home. Home Instead was among the earliest providers of its kind and really pioneered the market niche for non-medical home care.

Paul is a recognized thought leader in the senior care industry and has recently been interviewed by Time Magazine, Forbes, CNBC, and US News & Report.