Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years - by Star Bradbury (Paperback)

Don't wait for a crisis to begin planning for the future. Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years is an indispensable blueprint that will give you the tools and knowledge you need to advocate for your parents when they need you most.

Review Quotes

""Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years is an exceptionally comprehensive compendium of the problems, pitfalls, opportunities, and solutions people face when helping the elderly navigate the aging and dying process . . . Star covers it all, and she covers it well.""
--Samuel Harrington, MD, author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life

""Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years comes from Star Bradbury's decades of enriched experiences with thousands of elders and their adult children while educating, working with, and helping them to plan ahead for later life. Her delightful conversational warmth carries you gently through fully delineated details and critical questions.""
--Leilani Mangerian Doty, PhD, former director of the University of Florida Cognitive and Memory Disorder Clinic

""Star Bradbury beautifully combines her knowledge, experience, and compassion into a must-have guide to help aging parents enjoy their senior years in the healthiest, safest, and most dignified way. This is the compass we have needed--from a navigator we can trust.""
--Dr. Claudia Cometa, owner of Peace Advocacy Group

""As an elder law attorney, I plan to give Star's book to all my clients . . . The wide range of issues--discussing how we want to die, how to use long-term care insurance, how to prevent exploitation, and finally how to pay for it all! It's a handbook on how we can help our loved ones walk through the sunset chapter of their lives with grace and independence.""
--Shannon Miller, certified elder law Attorney and former president of the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys

""Star Bradbury's new book to the rescue! Building on a lifetime of personal and professional experience, each of her chapters will be an invaluable resource for older persons and their families seeking the best courses of action.""
--Stephen M. Golant, PhD, professor at the University of Florida and author of Aging in the Right Place

""At last, a comprehensive approach to helping you navigate the complex stage of life faced by your aging parents.Star's excellent publication provides thoughtful, expert guidance and is a must read for those with aging parents.We are honored to be included as a recommended resource.""
--Marci Lobel-Esrig, founder, CEO, and general counsel for SilverBills

""Star Bradbury has written an excellently paced guide with a focused, detailed timetable for long-term care planning . . .It is not unusual to postpone difficult and challenging life-changing decisions, but Successfully Navigating Your Parents Senior Years will give you the confidence needed to take the first step forward.""
--Flory Antiga-Stephens, LCSW, case manager for the Senior Healthcare Center at Melrose

""As a certified geriatric care manager, I'm aware that most people don't know how many options and resources are out there for seniors. Successfully Navigating Your Parents' Senior Years will leave you fully informed, with confidence and clear expectations for what the future will bring.""
--Cindy Flowers, certified geriatric care manager and Florida Aging Life Care Association chapter president

""In my ministry and as the beloved elders in my family age, I have frequently longed for a resource like this. Here Star offers her considerable wisdom and expertise, to fill the gap and lead the way, empowering readers with the information they need to ask good questions, have difficult conversations, and make thoughtful plans.Aging is inevitable (if we are lucky!), but this book equips us to move into our later years (and those of our loved ones) with hope and care--no luck required.""
--Rev. Bromleigh McCleneghan, writer and coordinating minister at the United Church of Gainesville

""The perfect handbook for any caregiver! Star Bradbury is a compassionate, reliable guide through the stressful realities of aging and the minutiae of senior living, with sage advice, adaptable plans, and resources for parents and children alike. Having worked with Star over the years, I can attest to her knowledge on the critical information needed to age successfully.""
--Kristen Griffis, chief executive officer of Elder Options

""A fantastic and badly needed road map--one which incorporates a rare blend of wisdom and experience with the modern technologies that can help simplify a complex journey.""
--Todd Rovak, Carefull app cofounder"

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