Reviews of ‘A Survival Guide to Later Life’

This all-encompassing manual has little in common with the anaemic fact-sheets hanging limply from the noticeboard of your doctor’s surgery. The vast but little-known world of care homes, social services, voluntary organisations and rip-off commercial eldercare operations is subjected to the relentless glare we take for granted elsewhere. … Practical guidance is infused with messianic zeal.

This helpful and practical book … I recommend it.

This book … is a triumph of the mastery of a vast quantity of complex information. Well organised, well written, with a powerful grasp of the questions, complexities and feelings around old age.

This guide is packed with useful information and tips.

A comprehensive guide to help empower elderly people and their families.

Written in an immensely practical style, the author ‘hand-holds’ the reader through the maze of statutory and voluntary services, financial and legal information, exploding myths and challenging assumptions about becoming older on the way.

All older people as well as everybody who has had a stroke, old or young, as well as their carers, should find it invaluable. It is also useful to people involved professionally in the eldercare world.

For relatives suddenly plunged into the world of caring for an older person the book would be invaluable.

This excellent publication … A practical, invaluable reference book to keep at hand.

A well-researched and well-presented book.