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Geriatric Care Management
Planning For Your Loved One's Needs
When aging affects more than the tasks of daily living, family members or elder care professionals may not know where to turn to explore options and ensure the right plans are in place for an aging loved one or elderly client. Geriatric Care Managers assist elderly individuals and their families in meeting their short and long-term care needs. This requires specialized training or experience in gerontology, social work, nursing, or counseling.
As one of the nation's leading Geriatric Care Management providers, Freedom Eldercare's professional approach assists elderly clients throughout the State of New Jersey and their family members with recommendations, care options, linkages to services, and coordination of care based on a plan that is customized to each individual's needs. This care plan ensures that your loved one or client lives with maximum independence and dignity, and that his or her assets are used wisely.
Geriatric Care Management Services:
- Comprehensive evaluation and care plan recommendation
- Assistance with medical, legal and financial decisions
- Coordination and monitoring of all service providers, with reports to families
- Support and counseling for life transitions
- Serve as long-distance caregiving liaison between family, client and service providers
Where to Go for Answers
Geriatric care managers are a valuable resource and can help with a number of issues, which offers both client and family peace of mind.
They can assist you when you:
- Question the safety of an older person living alone
- Question the ability of an older person to remain in their home
- Are concerned your elderly loved one is not receiving the best care from their current living situation
- Are unsure about bills being paid promptly
- Are concerned about an aging loved one’s physical and mental health
- Are concerned about an aging loved one’s personal hygiene or nutrition
- Have noticed a changes in behavior and judgment
- Need an objective opinion as your family disagrees on the best choice of care
- Are unable to care for an elderly family member due to distance
- Are overwhelmed caring for your aging loved one and your growing family
Professionals also turn to our geriatric care managers for a variety of reasons, including:
- Attorneys or trust officers need assistance with physical and/or mental issues of their clients
- Residential facilities request adjunct services to assist with transitions of their residents
Dedicated to Quality of Life
Our geriatric care managers provide a range of key services to clients throughout New Jersey, from day-to-day living solutions to more complex medical management and estate planning. Some of these services include:
- Act as a liaison for families living at a distance. This includes regular visits, attending physician appointments and notifying families of changes or potential problems
- Assess ability to safely drive
- Explain and suggest medical and health care options based on expertise in the health care and residential housing fields
- Extend support to client and family members
- Help a client designate a health care proxy and compose a living will
- Hire, screen, coordinate, and monitor in-home health care help and services
- Identify problems and services necessary to rectify them
- Intervene during a crisis
- Offer a professional, objective point-of-view regarding senior care options
- Provide community education and client advocacy
- Recommend resources, support groups, websites, and references for elderly client’s and their families
- Save families time and money by eliminating duplicative and unnecessary services
- Utilize trusted resources to make physician, mental health, attorney, trust officers, and residential housing referrals
Choosing a Geriatric Care Manager
When screening a potential care manager, it is important to ask the right questions to ensure your comfort level and that of your loved one:
- What are your professional qualifications?
- Are you licensed in your profession?
- How much experience do you have in geriatric care management?
- Are you available for all emergencies?
- How will you communicate and share information with me?
- Does your company provide home health care or other elder care services?
- How much do your services cost?
- Are you a member of the National Association of Geriatric Care Managers?
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