Protecting Your Parents' Money: The Essential Guide to Helping Mom and D ad Navigate the Finances of Retirement

Description

Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents' Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality, affordable retirement home. Protecting Your Parents' Money is a book everyone should own, as members of the Baby Boomer generation find themselves dealing with the many financial problems surrounding aging parents, and face their own future as seniors.

Jeff D. Opdyke is a financial columnist and the author of six books, including, most recently FINANCIALLY EVER AFTER and PIGGYBANKING. During Opdyke's seventeen years at the Wall Street Journal, he wrote about personal finance, family finance, and the investment markets, and, for six of those years, he wrote the popular and nationally syndicated "Love & Money" column. Though Jeff is no longer a full-time employee of The Wall Street Journal, he recently returned to writing his "Love & Money" column on a biweekly basis. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife, Amy, and their two children.

"Anyone anxious about how best to protect aging parents and their assets will find this guide from veteran Wall Street Journal journalist Opdyke...a godsend. A smart comprehensive guide to helping children assist their parents through a difficult time with candor and compassion." -- Publishers Weekly "Opdyke (Piggybanking, 2010, etc.) offers sensitive, user-friendly advice for adjusting to those stressful parent-child role reversals...A solid, informative reference." -- Kirkus Reviews "This guide offers sound advice for handling the financial issues stemming from medical care and daily living situations for seniors...This is one of the only books to provide clear instructions for adult children dealing with their parents' financial needs." -- Library Journal