Services & Solutions
Care for a parent, grandparent or other loved one can involve many complex issues and the making of some very difficult decisions. The average caregiver does not have the time to figure out all of the details regarding health, money management, legal matters, emergency care, and options. You are not alone. That is what we are here for.
Call us for a free initial phone consultation so we may listen to the details of your situation and discuss your options. The next step is to conduct a comprehensive assessment and gather information in order to either create a customized Care Plan for you to follow or we can provide on-going geriatric care management after the assessment has been completed.
Click on the links below or scroll down the page to learn more details about the following services that we provide:
In-Home Assessment and Evaluation
Geriatric Care Planning
Care Coordinating and Management
Crisis Intervention
Choosing Nursing Home Care
Money Management
Filing Long Term Care Insurance Claims
Corporate Benefits [FOR EMPLOYERS]
In-Home Assessment and Evaluation
Following a phone consultation, we will come to the home of the individual needing care to do a comprehensive assessment and evaluation, which includes a review of:
- Physical and mental limitations
- Strengths
- Social interests
- Outside contacts
- Sensory loss
- Medical history and status
- Nutritional status
- Safety of environment
- Legal and financial planning
- Health insurance quality
- Cost control
We provide ongoing service only after we have evaluated your needs and have explained a plan of service with the expected results and cost of services.
Care Planning
Developing a Care Plan to follow is crucial to address immediate and long term needs. Becoming the caregiver of an aging loved one is new territory for almost everyone. There are many things to learn, with the challenge of knowing where to begin if you even have the time to begin! Long distance caregiving presents even greater challenges. There are things you need to prepare for ahead of time, but without the experience, how can anyone expect you to know what to do? When facing medical and emotional issues, unfortunately, it is not unusual for families to disagree about the best way to proceed. You need to have ONE place that you can go to for solutions to these issues and more.
You have found that ONE place. We will develop a creative, personalized plan of action to address both immediate and long term needs. With our decade of experience we can anticipate and identify issues before they become problems. We can offer unbiased suggestions for additional services. With our on-going monitoring we can help prevent costly crises and unnecessary hospitalizations. Our aim is to maximize elder independence.
Care Coordinating and Management
Most of us fear the loss of independence as we age and dread the idea of having to depend on others for our needs. Elder Care Management Solutions helps elders and their families to have more control of their care, and we treat them in a special way…with privacy, flexibility, quality and a personal touch. Client wishes are balanced with their needs; we carefully customize a plan to assure that all needs are met, with an eye on safety. The services that we can coordinate or provide include:
- Transportation
- Shopping
- In-home care
- Assistance with bill paying
- Meal preparation
- Medication compliance
- Regular updates to family
- Relocation and downsizing
- Pet care or adoption
- Accompany our clients to medical and other appointments, including pre-registering protocol for labwork, radiology, treatments and follow up
We do not just arrange these services; we also manage them, staying involved to be sure that our plan of action is successfully implemented and modified when necessary.
Crisis Intervention
Need more peace of mind? We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the urgent needs of our clients and their families. We can advocate in an Emergency Room, provide the Health Care Proxy quickly, and have approaches ready in the event of power outage or flood evacuation.
Choosing Nursing Home Care
There may come a time when your loved one’s needs become greater than what can be safely met at home or financially maintained at home. This is where our firsthand knowledge of local nursing homes, adult care facilities, assisted living facilities and other independent living options will be valuable to you. We streamline the research process for you and present the options that best meet your needs and preferences. We advocate and assist with the application process and other requirements before, during and after admission. We can coordinate all of the following:
- The move to or from the home, retirement complex, or nursing home
- A move in or out of state
- Assistance with applications
- Transferring medical records
- Arranging for packing and moving belongings
- Having the room ready upon arrival
We offer on-going professional monitoring and advocacy to ensure that your loved one’s transition is successful.
Money Management
Our services can include assisting older persons in the management of their personal finances. We will come to them in their own homes to balance their accounts, pay their monthly bills and maintain their financial records. This is just one more thing that we can do to ease your mind and save you time. We can also offer step by step guidance in Medicaid application completion as well as represent the applicant in the application interviews.
Filing Long Term Care Insurance Claims
We can review the aging person’s long term care insurance policy and do the following:
- Be sure any claim is submitted in a timely manner once eligibility is met
- Prepare the application form
- Provide the required documentation
- Check the status of the claim until approval
- Prepare an appeal for a denied claim
Corporate Programs [FOR EMPLOYERS]
Studies have shown that an increasing number of employees are becoming caregivers of aging parents or other elder relative. Many have to shift their arrival and departure times from work, or must even take time off from work to care for them. Employees who live a distance from the relative they are caring for are more likely to miss workdays as a result of caregiving. The combined stress of caring for someone and the risk of losing a job can be overwhelming for many workers.
We will structure a program to meet your employee’s needs.
- Corporate sponsored educational programs for employees
- Geriatric Care Management services for employees billed to corporate entity
- Geriatric Care Management services for employees billed directly to employee
- Integration into an existing employee assistance program
See How Are Geriatric Care Managers Paid? on our FAQ page.
Contact Us for more information.