End of Life has 5 Phases
Before the end-of-life diagnosis, the ALCA or GCM care manager helps clients be an active participant in their care and gives the family caregiver the tools to manage the care.
The geriatric care manager serves older adults before they find they are dying. GCM’s work with chronic care clients, sometimes for years, who eventually succumb to their illness. But they also work with clients who come to them facing the end of life issues.
The process of acceptance and adjustment to terminal illness has five phases:
before the diagnosis,
- the acute phase
- the chronic phase
- the recovery phase
- the terminal phase
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Geriatric Care Managers Tasks Before the diagnosis
- Schedule medical appts
- Help family ask questions of medical professionals
- Before visiting the client maintain an updated medication list and a list of any drug allergies
- Assist the family in organizing all Advanced care planning documents documents
- Go to medical appointments with the client or train family member make a list of questions have ready
- Set up personal health records.
- Assist family members in setting up and use of a calendar to keep a log of important medication information, questions, and things out of the ordinary that happens to the ill person
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In this 1 ½ -hour webinar you will learn how to
1.Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death
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2. Help clients be active participants in their care
3.Give the family/caregiver tools to manage care
4. Provide family center care to caregiver and family
5. Choose the right support services through all stages of death
6.Introduce Hospice and Palliative care and work with their team
7. Use ALCA End of Life Benefits During COVID
8.Use COVID -19 Family Coaching for GCM
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The first thing that the geriatric care manager works on is to find out if the older person has the required legal documents –
If documents are completed, locate in the home and provide explanations to the family that they must give a copy to emergency contacts and physicians as required and place in planning binder. In the planning “Go binder” list all emergency contacts with phone numbers/e-mail addresses – family, friends, physicians, pharmacy, professionals providing in-home services. Also, list all medications and prescribing physicians in
