Cathy Cress

Expert in Aging Life and Geriatric Care Management

Can You Be Wonder Woman After The Holiday Season ?

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If you are a long distance care provider and your holiday visit to older family members gave you heartburn— Make a New Years Resolution  to take these ten steps on your next visit- hopefully soon –

In the sober light of January, consider these ten to-do’s.

Accompany the elderly person to the doctor and talk to the doctor in person

Gather legal, medical, financial and insurance paperwork

Consider having all mail forwarded to yourself, if bills are not being paid

Contact and meet with old and present friends

Contact the ombudsman if your older family member is in a facility

Meet with your elderly relative’s formal support network

Meet with someone from the older person’s religious community, if they belong

Arrange for additional socialization , if needed

Look into gero technology like  a personal emergency response system

Can’t Do it all ? Call  an aging life care manager in the area

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If you are an Aging Life Care Manager, Geriatric Care Manager, Nurse Care Manager or aging professional who works with elder law attorneys, conservatorships or guardianship -welcome the New Year by learning how write a winning geriatric assessment that is court submittable.

 

Join me on January 25, 2017 for a free 2-hour webinar “How to Write a Winning Geriatric Assessment for Elder Law Attorneys, Conservators, Guardians and Families. “

  This program is approved by NACCUM for 1.5 hours

Third party referrals from elder law attorneys offer major growth opportunities for an aging life business., geriatric care management, eldercare business. To convert them to referrals care managers must show the elder law attorney the benefits their agency offers -that their completion does not, so they are chosen as a prime referral.

 

Make yourself stand out against your competition. Work with more elder law attorneys because you are an expert in gerontology and health care who can write well-crafted court a submittable geriatric assessment, as evidence in a conservatorship or guardian.

 

Learn how to write these assessments so they can convince the court to make the right decision for the older person. Understand what matters to a court and attorney and learn how to write a cohesive, complete geriatric assessment where facts are so coherent that your assessment leads to logical conclusion that the court can use to make their decision.

Learn the 5 Critical Skills to write a geriatric assessment for court and win elder law attorneys, conservators and guardians as new clients

 

Pinpoint the assessment tools and records you need to create a compelling geriatric assessment for court

  • In this two-hour webinar, you will learn how to:
  • Identify the 10 standardized instruments used to conducts a geriatric assessment for court
  • Choose 15 records from other sources that must be used to create a geriatric assessment for court
  • Identify how to distinguish 1 main precipitating problem that prompted the geriatric assessment
  • Identify 10 elements to be covered in the geriatric assessment
  • Identify the 4 C’s needed to write a geriatric assessment in a convincing, logical manner for court
  • Identify the 7 elements to edit your first draft to make sure you gathered all the clues and expressed them clearly 

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What are the Core Skills You Need to Work With The Aging Dysfunctional Family

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What are the Core skills you have to have to work with an aging dysfunctional family. These families are not for the faint of heart or uneducated in aging, family therapy, the aging family, family systems and the 5 domains required to be certified in aging life care .

Care Manager Bunni Dybnis,  Steve Barlam write in their chapter  in Care Manager’s Working With the Aging Family  The core skills you need to work with these highly difficult families are containment, objectivity, resources and experience. Find out more below from my You Tube Channel. Geriatric Care 1 

 

10 Tinseled Topped Dysfunctional Family Holiday Films to Enjoy On Chrismas Day

Dysfunctional families dread rituals and Christmas or Hanakkuh is a ritual. In the dysfunctional clan, you gather, eat ritual foods and explode. That blast can be triggered by ritual infusions of alcohol, prescription drugs, long-simmering anger, and secrets.

In the film August Osage County, you get a cattle prod version of what family rituals can detonate in dysfunctional families.The ritual is a funeral and Meryl Streep plays the pill-popping mother from hell, Julia Roberts plays one of the angry family members who both hate and love this dying, drunken, 60’s, minted mother. The secret is prescription drugs. 

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In the film August Osage County, you get a cattle prod version of what family rituals can detonate in dysfunctional families.The ritual is a funeral and Meryl Streep plays the pill-popping mother from hell, Julia Roberts plays one of the angry family members who both hate and love this dying, drunken, 60’s, minted mother. The secret is prescription drugs. 

Osage County is one of the nine picks for Best Dysfunctional Family Holiday film. I also favor Katy Holmes is Pieces of April, where she shows herself to be a highly talented actress.She plays a comic- the anguished role of a goth daughter& least favorite child trying to pull off the holiday for her suburban family and dying mother  (award-winning actress Patricia Clarkson)in a drab New York walk up.  This is actually a film with a surprisingly happy ending and is a cult film that will cheer up everyone nearly normal and  dysfunctional families   Here are the other 9 

 Have a Merry Christmas- share joy and watch movies 

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