Senior Care Management and Long Distance Care Management
SERVICES AND BENEFITS OF UTILIZING A CARE MANAGER:
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- Comprehensive intake, evaluation, monitoring, and supervision.
- Having a caring individual look after the needs of a senior for long-distance family members.
- Providing or coordinating services specifically to meet the client's wants and needs
- Reducing miscommunication or duplication of services by having a central contact.
- Reducing costs due to inappropriate institutional care for a senior who wants to remain living in their own home of choice.
- Reduce crises and unnecessary hospitalizations by continual monitoring and services depending on the senior's ever-changing needs.
- Screening, arranging, and supervising in-home help and other services.
- Assisting with bill paying, statement review, and filling out paperwork.
- Reviewing financial, legal, or medical issues and offering referrals.
- Acting as a liaison to families at a distance, overseeing care, regular reports, and alerting families to problems.
- Providing advocacy and education for the best quality care.
- Assisting with moving a senior home from a nursing home back home.
- Assist with preventing placement in an assisted living center or nursing home through services, resource coordination, and care supervision.
- Coordination and supervision of home modification and home repair.
- Escorting to physician appointments and reporting to family physician treatment recommendations.
- Providing crisis intervention.
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Many seniors are at risk of nursing home placement or assisted living because families are trying to do it all for them and simply burn out. Caring for a senior loved one is a full-time job. Like any job, it can be stressful. If you already have a job, how can you possibly do both? That's why
Caring Heart offers this service. We are here to provide a lot of what you are doing. It's our full-time job.
With care management, a Caring Heart geriatric care manager will complete an intake assessment and evaluation of the senior in the convenience of their own home. The care manager assesses the individuals strengths and needs in relation to all faucets of life such as emotional well-being, health, and cognitive status. The care manager assesses informal support for the individual and the need for professional or formal support to fill in the gaps. Every senior is different and unique. One senior may need a little assistance once a week. Others may need 24 hour care. The care manager will provide these services and/or refer to the needed supportive senior resources in the community. The coordination and supervision of these services are managed by the Caring Heart care manager. Examples of supportive geriatric resources can include, but are not limited to the following: personal care services, home making services, home health services, home delivered meals, adult day services, live-in assistance, respite care services, medical equipment, transportation arrangement, escort to necessary medical and/or social appointments, home repair and maintenance, senior friendly home modifications, social and therapeutic activities, 24-hour personal emergency response systems, and assistance with bill paying
SUPPORTED LIVING FACILITATION:
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- Meal preparation and Menu Planning.
- Errands or errand escort such as prescription pickup, grocery shopping.
- Escorts to Medical Appointments Rehabilitation Services.
- Assistance to Hairdresser.
- Veterinarian Appointments.
- Housekeeping.
- Medication Management.
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If your loved one is a senior citizen, he or she has made it many years taking care of themselves and living independently. They are much older and wiser than we are. As we age, it is difficult to ask for or accept help but it is that very help that can help keep a senior living at home and maintain maximum independence and quality of life. A
Caring Heart senior helper can assist your senior with daily activities so they can continue safely living at home.
THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES:
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- Exercise.
- Companionship and Reminisce (about the good old days).
- Arts and Crafts.
- Music.
- Senior Massage.
- Outings to senior's choice (lunch, theatre, art galleries, movies).
- Escort to clubs and social events.
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As one ages and retires from employment, it is easy to fall into the "recliner syndrome" of not getting enough activity and social stimulation. An individual may develop osteoporosis or arthritis and emotional well-being suffers from concerns with physical ailments. It is important to stay active. A
Caring Heart helper can help a senior reengage in life through activities promoting physical, mental, social, emotional, creative, and spiritual well-being.
| ENCHANTED TEA TIME SENIOR SOCIAL: |
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Is there such a thing as an enchanting tea pot?
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At this social event in Norman, Oklahoma, seniors get together for a superb assortment of fine tea, gourmet pastries, and more. Seniors meet for this activity group facilitated by a senior care manager and psychologist. The enchanted tea time is designed to promote social interactions with other seniors through a warm, loving, caring, and accepting group.
