After the Hospital: The Complete Family Caregiver Guide to Elder Care, Hospital Discharge Planning, Medication Management, and Home Safety in the First 30 Days After Surgery, Illness, or Rehab - Couverture souple

Hintz, Jessica

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798182771115

Editeur : Jessica Hintz, 2026

Synopsis

The discharge planner looks up from the clipboard and says the sentence every adult child dreads: **"She can go home tomorrow."** Suddenly, you realize nobody has told you what tomorrow actually looks like-whether the walker fits through the bathroom door, what to do with the fourteen bottles on the kitchen counter, or who to call at two in the morning.

**After the Hospital** was written for you: the adult daughter measuring a staircase, the son who's been saying he's fine for three weeks. It is a complete family caregiver guide for adult children caring for aging parents through the first 30 days after surgery, illness, rehab, or a hospital stay-the fragile window when families often feel overwhelmed and most alone.

Jessica Hintz spent eleven years as a hospital discharge planner before her own father fell and broke his hip. The gap between what she knew professionally and what she could actually execute at her own kitchen table became this book. That dual perspective sets it apart from typical eldercare books: this is not a collection of cheerful generalities or a clinical textbook. It is the field manual she wished she could have handed across the clipboard-honest about Medicare rules, real-dollar costs, guilt, grief, resentment, and relief, and designed for what a frightened, sleep-deprived adult can actually do at six in the morning.

Inside, you'll learn the **22 questions to ask before hospital discharge**, how to read discharge paperwork like a professional, how to complete a **48-hour home safety sweep**, and how to build a medication-management system that survives a groggy dawn. You'll discover what home health aides actually cost, what insurance really pays, which warning signs mean **watch, call, or go**, and which documents-HIPAA releases, healthcare proxies, and power of attorney-determine whether you're legally able to help.

Just as importantly, you'll learn how to protect your own body, marriage, finances, and paycheck from caregiver burnout.

Whether you're caring for a parent after hip surgery, a stroke, a fall, or an unexpected hospitalization, this book replaces panic with a plan: **day by day, room by room, conversation by conversation**, with scripts, checklists, templates, and practical cost tables you can use immediately.

Care is what you give. **Conditions are what you build.** If a call about your mother or father could come on any ordinary afternoon, read this before it does-because love got you to the hospital doors, and a plan is what gets you both home.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jessica Hintz
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798182771115
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible