ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers: A Guide to Making it Manageable

Caregiving is inevitably fraught with complex issues―emotional as well as medical, financial, and legal. The ABA/AARP Checklist for Family Caregivers by Sally Balch Hurme can help organize the responsibilities that caregivers face.

In one place, you’ll be able to record and update the myriad details you need to keep track of. And if you don’t know where to start, this invaluable tool tells you, step by step, what you need and why.

You can easily personalize the to-do lists, either in the book or electronically, and have them available for quick reference for your caregiving team―family, friends, aides, and medical, financial, and legal professionals.

This new book―third in the Checklist series from AARP and the ABA―will save you time and simplify the daunting tasks of caregiving. Hurme shows you how to become a trusted steward―without losing your sanity.

A companion to the PBS documentary (June 2015) and Amy Goyer’s ABA/AARP Juggling Life, Work, and Caregiving.

Sally Hurme is an elder law attorney and author. While with AARP for 23 years she worked on a wide variety of issues including advance care planning, surrogate decision making, consumer fraud, elder abuse, and financial security. Ms. Hurme was an advisor to the Uniform Law Commission in the drafting of the uniform guardianship jurisdiction act and Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and other Protective Arrangements Act. She also was a member of the U.S. State Department delegation that drafted the Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults. She has authored 20 law review articles and book chapters on various elder law issues and taught elder law at George Washington University Law School. She is author of the ABA/AARP Checklist series: Checklist for My Family, Checklist for Family Survivors, Checklist for Family Caregivers, Get the Most Out of Retirement, and Wise Moves. She received her law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University, Washington, D.C., and her bachelor's degree from Newcomb College, Tulane University in New Orleans. Sally currently lives in Bridgewater, Virginia.