Be Prepared offers the most comprehensive and accessible guidebook ever assembled to help people with a life-challenging condition, as well as their families and friends, cope with the financial, legal, and practical issues of illness, disability, and death.
If you are confronting a life-threatening condition and facing challenges to your finances, work, and future, you no longer need to struggle alone. In Be Prepared, attorney David Landay, a leading authority with more than thirty years' experience in this field, assembles and explains the most up-to-date financial, legal, and practical information. He will help you focus on the questions to ask, how to find the information you need, and where to locate the resources to assist you. Topics covered include:
- How to obtain access to the best medical care
- Surprising ways to pay bills with existing assets
- Work issues, disability, and going back to work
- Legal issues such as estate planning and the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
- New Investment strategies
- How to maximize your income and manage your expenses and debts
By showing you, in simple steps, how to understand, organize, and manage your affairs, Landay provides you with the practical know-how and emotional confidence to face the future without fear. Be Prepared is the ideal book to help you make the best of some of life's most difficult situations.
