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Guide Book Section 4
Publications

Financial Resources


Personal Inventory: A Complete Records Organizer -Erie Center on Health & Aging, 1999
  This 14-page personal inventory is an indispensable booklet for you and your loved ones to record all their vital personal data and information on all records and documents.

"Planning Your Retirement" -AARP (1995)
  This 20-page booklet discusses a variety of aspects of retirement planning. It contains information on attitude and role adjustment, dynamic fitness, meaningful usage of time, working options, housing and lifestyle, financial security, and legal affairs and estate planning.

"A Primer on Personal Money Management; Women: Take Charge of Your Money" -AARP (1999)
  This 99-page booklet discusses goals list, present financial state, long-range planning, cash flow, bank accounts, establishing credit, insurance, and other important financial planning information

"Your Pension Plan: A Guide to Getting Through the Maze" -AARP (1998)
  This 30-page booklet explains the importance of pensions, how pension plans work, finding out whether you are in a pension plan, deciding whether you will get a pension, calculating how much will your pension be, determining when you will get your pension, finding out how your pension will be paid, whether you can lose your pension benefits, finding out about pension rules, getting your pension, and who to ask for help.

"Be Prepared: Difficult as it may be, now is the time to plan for spouse's death" -Times Publishing Co. article (January 2, 1996)

"It was Quite a Shock: Nursing Home Expenses- A son discusses his parents' descent into Medicaid" -Times Publishing Co. article (August 4, 1998)

"Facts about Financial Planners" -AARP (1994)
  This 16-page booklet discusses financial planners, individuals that evaluate and provide recommendations about strategies that achieve financial goals.

Section 4 Video Library Materials


"Aging Parents: The Family Survival Guide" -Lifetapes Communications, Inc. (1997). A Two Tape Series.
  Comprehensive guides to help all adult children understand and address issues they may be facing today and tomorrow. This video series is valuable for long-range planning, in all areas of caring for your parents.