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10 Do’s &Don’ts Doing the Dysfunctional Family Calls Post Holidays
Most Calls for Care Managers Post Holidays
More than half of the aging families who call you inquiring about services will be dysfunctional families post-holidays. The great majority of calls will come from adult children. If you want to make the sale during the inquiry you have to know how to handle these dysfunctional family members on the phone and give them enough trust in you to sign your contract and give you a deposit for your services.
How Do You Get Them To Trust You Enough to Sign Contract with Dysfunctional family Post holidays?
- Do Be Objective
- Do Use Active Listening
- Do Give them Hope you can solve their family problem
- Do a two-part inquiry and have the problem defined in the first part done by a skilled administrative Assistant
- Do study the problem before you do the second call and have exactly how you would solve the problem ready in a planned elevator speech
- Do a complimentary 30-minute consultation
- Do not give away the store but outline how you are an expert at solving the problems (moving, keeping at home, Alzheimer’s wandering and a bare outline of your solution
- Do not criticize dysfunctional family post-holidays
- Do not blame,
- Do not take sides if several family members points of view and express them
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New Years Resolutions To Help Aging Parents
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Here are some RESOLUTIONS TO HELP AGING PARENTS. It’s not “go on a diet,” because you ate some much holiday fare but what you should do after the holiday when you spotted red flags that made you worry about your aging mom or dad. Here is the entire list of New Year’s resolutions to help your aging parents you might make for January as an adult child worried about aging parents after the holiday visit.
RESOLUTIONS TO HELP AGING PARENTS
➢ Accompany the elderly person to the doctor, and talk to the doctor in person.
➢ Gather legal financial and insurance paperwork, and meet with professionals.
➢ Have all mail forwarded to yourself or another relative who will manage it
➢ Contact and meet with old and present friends.
➢ If your older family members are in a facility, make contact with staff that cares for them, and the ombudsman.
➢ Meet with your elderly relative’s support network.
➢ Meet with a geriatric care manager who can do all this for you
DO YOU THINK THIS RESOLUTION TO HELP AGING PARENTS IS TOO EXPENSIVE?
TEN REASONS YOU CAN AFFORD A GERIATRIC CARE MANAGER
The Top Ten Reasons Why You Can Afford A Geriatric Care Manager by Phyllis Brostoff
10. We can do in 2 hours what it would take you 2 weeks to do.
9. We know how to get around that “I’m saving for a rainy day” syndrome when your folks are drowning in their problems.
8. We’re much cheaper than the cost of plane fare if you have to fly into town when your parents say “everything is fine” but you know it isn’t.
7. We can give you the scoop on which nursing home is really right for your parents.
6. We can make your parents hear what you have said over and over again, but they refuse to listen to them, you are still a child.
5. We can tell you’re annoying siblings to shut up, but graciously.
4. We’ve helped hundreds of families a lot worse than yours.
3. Your dad can’t push our buttons.
2. Next time you want to hang up on your mother, you can tell her to call us.
1. We’re available 24/7, so you don’t have to be. Just find us here
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10 Alarm Bells to Give ” Just Shopping” Long Distance Callers Before Holiday
You will be Showered With Calls Over the Holidays
Long-distance family members from nearly normal or dysfunctional families will call you frantically from now on.
Why?
It’s almost Christmas, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving just passed but they could not see their older parents because of the COVID Risk.
They are having to manage their over 65 Mom and Dad’s Shelter in place from afar plus oversee their own families risk plus their own COVID laden holiday. These long-distance family caregivers were already reaching
burnout from constant pre-COVID travel and caring on top of their own work-life demands.
They are reaching implosion so they are going to call you.
Test to Give the Burnt Out Caregiver Calls FOR Information Before the Holidays
If they call for information before the holiday and are not ready to move forward, you can proactively offer them questions from this list of alarm bells that they can answer now or they can monitor during now and New Year holiday that could trigger engaging your services after they compare notes on a post-holiday call with you.
Below is a list of red flags. If they see any red signals on Thanksgiving, Hanukkah,
remotely or in-person if they take the very dangerous risk of travel on Christmas-encourage them that is the time to do something about it by hiring you as a care manager. You can question them with this a checklist of worrisome signs that signal the need for a local geriatric care manager,
Alarm Bells List – Dealing with Long Distance Aging Relatives Before or During the Holidays
- Unpaid bills if long-distance family members monitor bill pay from afar
- Missed appointments with their physicians that long-distance care provider monitor with their doctors
- Clutter reported by neighbors, friends local senior agencies a home that was once always neat
- Weight loss reported by the aging parents Dr’s or local visitors
- Memory loss, change in short-term memory when they zoom, call facetime, etc.
- Poor grooming for a person who was once meticulously, observed by local visitors friends senior agencies food delivery who visit.
- Reports of getting lost
- Reports of wandering
- Refusing to go to holiday religious services with friends or church transportation
to holiday religious services - refusing any suggestion or conversely agreeing to everything with-out consideration
- Mood swings, getting angry when normally easy going
- Refusing to go to medical providers
- Not taking care of activities of daily living: cooking, bathing, dressing, housekeeping, etc.
- Entering contests, credit card maxed out on shopping channels
- Set up a meeting when the holidays end. You have helped them proactively, begin to engage your services.
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- Get care for aging family members when the dysfunctional family members resist
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