Geriatric Care Management
What is a Geriatric Care Management?
Also referred to as "Elder Care Management", "Senior Health Care Management" or "Professional Care Management", Geriatric Care Management is the process of preparing, arranging and coordinating care of the elderly and others with physical and/or mental impairments to meet their long term care needs, improve their quality of life, and maintain their independence for as long as possible.
Geriatric Care Managers utilize their knowledge of health care, psychology, human development, family dynamics, and funding sources, to advocate for their clients throughout a comprehensive array of health services spanning all levels of intensity of care. For example, a Geriatric Care Manager provides assistance and guidance to families with older adults who are coping with the needs of someone suffering from Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease as examples.
Also referred to as "Elder Care Management", "Senior Health Care Management" or "Professional Care Management", Geriatric Care Management is the process of preparing, arranging and coordinating care of the elderly and others with physical and/or mental impairments to meet their long term care needs, improve their quality of life, and maintain their independence for as long as possible.
Geriatric Care Managers utilize their knowledge of health care, psychology, human development, family dynamics, and funding sources, to advocate for their clients throughout a comprehensive array of health services spanning all levels of intensity of care. For example, a Geriatric Care Manager provides assistance and guidance to families with older adults who are coping with the needs of someone suffering from Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease as examples.
Benefits of Using a Professional Geriatric Care Manager:
What will a Geriatric Care Manager from Gentle Home Care do for you?
Questions to consider when hiring a Geriatric Care Manager:
- Personalized and compassionate services focusing on each unique individual and family's wants and needs.
- Accessibility to care is typically available 24 hours a day. 7 days a week.
- Continuum of care management means communications are coordinated between family members, doctors, along with other care professionals and services providers.
- Cost containment by helping to avoid costly and inappropriate care placement, duplication of services and unnecessary hospitalizations.
- Quality controled care management services follow an Industry Standards of Practice and Pledge of Ethics when provided by a certified Professional Geriatric Care Manager.
What will a Geriatric Care Manager from Gentle Home Care do for you?
- Our Care Managers conduct care-planning assessments which evaluate the client's physical, emotional, functional and social needs. This assessment helps us to identify problems and allows our Geriatric Care Manager the ability to provide your family with recommendations most appropriate for your family's unique needs and situation.
- Medication Management (performed by an RN)
- Screen, arrange, and monitor in-home help or other services, including assistance in hiring a qualified caregiver for home care.
- Provide crisis intervention.
- Review financial, legal, or medical issues and offer referrals to geriatric specialists to avoid future problems.
- Act as a liaison to families at a distance, overseeing care, and quickly alerting families to problems.
- Advise physician of observed changes, make appointments, accompany client to appointments and communicate status with family members.
- Assist with moving an older person to or from a retirement complex assisted care home, or nursing home.
- Provide education and advocacy.
- Offer counseling and support.
- Provide professional advocacy during emergencies for their client -- client's history, advanced directives.
Questions to consider when hiring a Geriatric Care Manager:
- Have the problems that you and your loved ones face each day become larger and more complex than you can comfortably manage?
- Have the demands and responsibilities become so great that you are unable to provide the desired level of supervision and attention that you feel your loved ones deserve?
- Would having an unbiased professional advocating for your loved one help to relieve some of your and your family's stress during times of crisis?
