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A Good Life to the Very End-Last Day Sign Up 4 Free Webinar-

January 23, 2023

Last Day to Sign Up  Free Webinar –Add Death and Dying to Your Care Management Agency

Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part

Join me Tuesday January 24cathy, and learn why End of Life Services Are a perfect new service for care managers 

In this 1 ½ -hour webinar you will learn how to

1. What is a Death Doula https://cathycress.com/events/

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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 caregivers 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. Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death

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If you really want to add End of Life to your care management business sign up for this webinar now

A Good Life to the Very End 

With “a Good Life to the Very End” Atul Gawande’s acclaimed book, “Being Mortal“ opened our eyes to avoiding a medical way of death. He showed millions of readers how the quality of life and human interaction while dying trump the number of years gained through questionable painful procedures and dying in an institution. He tells us that “our ultimate, goal, after, is not a good death but a good life to the very

A Good Life to the very End

end. Learn how to deliver the good death through the 5 stages of the end of life. Get your client to hospice and palliative care when they need it not in the last 15 days of their life. Offer a Quality of life to death at home, not in the hospital where there will be the medicalization of death, not a good death and find out what is a death doula and how they can work with care managers

Sign up for this free webinar to learn how you can do this as an aging professional who wants to whole of aging and the end of aging to offer a Good Life to the Very End.

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Care Managers in End-of-Lift- What is their Role?

January 19, 2023

 

Care managers at end-of-life

Care managers at end-of-life don’t just meet dying patients and their bereft children in the emergency room.

Care Managers at end-of-life can bring in Death Doulas to help the family caregivers follow through with what hospice has taught them as caregivers of their loved ones. Or they themselves can be certified as Death Doulas  to help the families through the caregiver journey for a job they never were trained for whole they grieve at the same time

Care Managers play a big role in end-of-life issues. They are their navigators through all five stages of dying, many times long before palliative care or hospice is called. Often GCM’s can help the family and client to bring in hospice or palliative care.

 The final passage through life can be emotionally charged.  If the family is following a long labyrinth to the end, the blind alleys may be blocked by cultural, religious, and moral beliefs. Care managers can find an opening through this maze.  Money, family dynamics, and fear of dying can all explode a fraught crisis of care in dying. When important end-of-life decisions need to be made, the stress of the responsibility and the seriousness of the situation can break a wave of distress fear, and anxiety over the “whole family system” of the dying elder. The geriatric care manager specializes in this whole family syst

 Care Managers  in end-of-life often help facilitate throbbing discussions and facilitate family members coming together t

Care managers at end-of-life

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Care managers AT end-of-life

Hospice trains the family of the dying person to be the caregivers only once, but their primary focus is the dying person. Death doulas are an adjunct to the medically trained professionals in hospices. They reinforce hospice training. ( For example  fear family has of giving morphine in a needle  in spite of training )Death Doulas give emotional support to the patient and family of the dying person and sources respite, support groups, and help with caregiver burnout for the family, among other caregiver issues at death, They are an alternative to the medicalization of death in the US, described by Atul Gawande. Care Managers at end of life can work well with Death Doulas. We will feature an interview with Patty urban a Death Doulas and a geriatric care manager and member of ALCA

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We will feature an interview with Patty Urban a Death Doulas and a geriatric care manager and member of ALCA

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Death Doula

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What is a death doula?

what exactly does a death doula do?

Do Death Doula work with Hospice, Care Managers, or just families

Is there a Charge

How can I contact a Death Doula

How can a care manager be trained as a Death Doula

Patti Urban, a Certified Dementia Practitioner, Senior Advisor, and End of Life Doula, is the owner of Aging Care Planning Solutions, a geriatric care management and end-of-life planning practice.

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Deliver a Good End of Life- Atul Gawande

9 Steps to Add Death and Dying to Your Care Management Agency

 

Serve Your Client until Death Do You Part
Join me on January 24 2023 and learn why End of Life Services re a perfect new service for care managers

Care managers at end-of-life

Learn to guide the patient/family through the five stages of death. Understand how to help clients be active participants in their care. Give the family caregivers tools to manage care. Find out how to provide family-centered care to caregivers and families. Learn to choose the right support services for the client through all stages of death.
Introduce Hospice and Palliative care to the client earlier and work with their team and a Death Doula for non-medical support
Discover the role of Death Doula at end of life.

  • Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part

     In this 1 ½ -hour webinar you will learn how to

     1. Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death

  •  2. Help clients be active participants in their care               3. Give the family/caregiver tools to manage care4. Provide family center care to caregivers and family5. Choose the right support services through all stages of death6. Introduce Hospice and Palliative care and work with their team
  • 7. Understand the Role of the Death Doula

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Jan 24, 2023, 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Gwendolyn LAZO Harris MA, CT, Seniors at Home, San Francisco and Diane LeVan MA both highly expert care managers, created a seminal chapter on  End of Life Care Manager in my book Care Manager’s Working With the Aging Family  

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A Good End of Life- Deliver it-Sign Up for my Free Webinar

January 4, 2023

Good End of Life

Deliver a Good End of Life- Add Death and Dying to Your Care Management Agency

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Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part

Want to Deliver a Good End of Life?Join me ,on January 24, 2023, & learn why End of Life Services Are a perfect service for care managers 

Learn to Deliver End of Life Services in 1 ½ -hour webinar

you will learn how to serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part:

1. Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death

2. Help clients be active participants in their care

3. Give the family/caregiver tools to manage care

4. Provide family-centered care to family or fictive family caregivers

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

9. Role of the Death Doula

Sign Up   

If you really want to add  End of Life to your care management business sign up for this webinar now

A Good End Of Life to the Very End 

 By showing us to  Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part in his acclaimed book, Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal“ opened our eyes to the medical way of death. He showed millions of readers how the quality of life and human interaction while dying trump the number of years gained through questionable painful procedures and dying in an institution.

He tells us that “our ultimate, goal, after, is not a good death but a good life to the very end. Learn how to deliver the good death through the 5 stages of the end of life. Get your client to hospice and palliative care when they need it not in the last 15 days of their life. Offer a Quality of life to death at home, not in the hospital where there will be the medicalization of death, not a good death.

Sign up for this free webinar to learn how you can do this as an aging professional who wants to whole of aging and the end of aging to offer GOOD CARE 

Find Out More About Webinar-

Filed Under: Aging Life Care, aging life care manager, Blog, Death and Dying, Death and Dying Care Management, End of Life, Families, geriatric care manager, Geriatric Care Manager, geriatric social worker, Hospice Care, nurse advocate, nurse care manager, Palliative Care, Palliative care manager, Quality of Life for elders, Quality of Life in Death, Quality of Life in Dying Tagged With: adding end of life services, aging family, aging life care manager, aging parent care, aging parent crisis, ALCA in End Of Life, care manager, case manager, disputes at end of life, elderly at end of life, end of life care manager, end of life family meeting, Fighting and Feuding at end of life, free webinar, GCM Family Coaching end of life, geriatric care manager, Navigation through END of LIfe, nurse advocate, nurse care manager, webinar end of life

A Good End of Life- Deliver it-Sign Up for my Free Webinar

January 4, 2023

Good End of Life

Deliver a Good End of Life- Add Death and Dying to Your Care Management Agency

FIND OUT MORE 

Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part

Want to Deliver a Good End of Life?Join me ,on January 24, 2023, & learn why End of Life Services Are a perfect service for care managers 

Learn to Deliver End of Life Services in 1 ½ -hour webinar

you will learn how to serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part:

1. Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death

2. Help clients be active participants in their care

3. Give the family/caregiver tools to manage care

4. Provide family-centered care to family or fictive family caregivers

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

9. Role of the Death Doula

Sign Up   

If you really want to add  End of Life to your care management business sign up for this webinar now

A Good End Of Life to the Very End 

 By showing us to  Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part in his acclaimed book, Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal“ opened our eyes to the medical way of death. He showed millions of readers how the quality of life and human interaction while dying trump the number of years gained through questionable painful procedures and dying in an institution.

He tells us that “our ultimate, goal, after, is not a good death but a good life to the very end. Learn how to deliver the good death through the 5 stages of the end of life. Get your client to hospice and palliative care when they need it not in the last 15 days of their life. Offer a Quality of life to death at home, not in the hospital where there will be the medicalization of death, not a good death.

Sign up for this free webinar to learn how you can do this as an aging professional who wants to whole of aging and the end of aging to offer GOOD CARE 

Find Out More About Webinar-

Filed Under: Aging Life Care, aging life care manager, Blog, Death and Dying, Death and Dying Care Management, End of Life, Families, Geriatric Care Manager, geriatric care manager, geriatric social worker, Hospice Care, nurse advocate, nurse care manager, Palliative Care, Palliative care manager, Quality of Life for elders, Quality of Life in Death, Quality of Life in Dying Tagged With: adding end of life services, aging family, aging life care manager, aging parent care, aging parent crisis, ALCA in End Of Life, care manager, case manager, disputes at end of life, elderly at end of life, end of life care manager, end of life family meeting, Fighting and Feuding at end of life, free webinar, GCM Family Coaching end of life, geriatric care manager, Navigation through END of LIfe, nurse advocate, nurse care manager, webinar end of life

Are You Giving Holiday Thanks to Your Employees?

December 12, 2022

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 Are You Giving Holiday Thanks to Your Employees?

Giving holiday thanks to your employees for their work during the holidays is key to being a good employer. Christmas and Hannakka are coming up when we offer thanks to our friends, loved ones, and family. But what about thanking your employees this holiday month? How will you thank your employees, the very people that power your business and profit and may be on call for you right now on New Year?

A holiday party  after hours catered  or  just  ordering pizza plus buying bottles of wine, and nonalcoholic beverages then having a white elephant exchange  hat can be fun and affordable

But if that is not in your plan here are Ideas for inexpensive but really appreciated gifts to thank your employees – this holiday season. Consider gift cards to grocery stores or department stores, or a gift certificate from Amazon all given with a nice personal handwritten note.

Thank Your Staff

How To Thank Staff  All Year

1. Thank your staff all year long for having the amount of productivity to keep the business thriving. Handwriting is not a lost art. It sends a message that you take the time, personally, to really celebrate what the employees do for your business.

2. Giving Holiday Thanks to Your Employees could be sending a handwritten thank-you note to thank your employees, to each staff member during the year applauding something they did. Be grateful by thanking your staff for something specific may be the ultimate reward. If you do it selectively yet authentically, a thank you note may be pinned above your employee’s desk for years. Create a formal letter recognizing your employee’s achievement. Sign it and use the company’s seal to give the letter something extra. If you really want to do it right, frame it.

3. Thank your staff by naming an employee of the month, each month in your newsletter with their picture. Give them a gift GCM-pix-3.jpgto tell them you are grateful for their hard work. Create a formal letter recognizing your employee’s achievement. Sign it and use the company’s seal to give the letter something extra. To thank your employees right, frame it too.

4. Giving holidays thanks to your employees,  if you do feel safe, could be hosting an in-person party,If you do not feel it is covid safe, try a virtual employee holiday party and mail gifts ahead of time to all employees for being such excellent care managers all year. If it is late now so try New Year.

5. When the COVID level in your area is safe enough to gather,  thank your employees, plan employee picnics, birthday parties, and anniversary parties to thank them publicly throughout the year.

6. B.J Curry- Spitler, one of the first and I might say the greatest care managers, founded Age Concerns in San Diego in 1982. and knew how to be grateful to her staff. She was a master at thanking her staff.  To thank her employees, she gave gifts of massages to her care managers. A brilliant gift, a massage recognizes the tough emotional work that care managers do and their need to take care of themselves- which you as their employer are doing

 

This winter 90% of those who die of Covid will be over 65 . January is the deadliest month in the U.S. according to an analysis of the CDC Wonder database.

Understand End of Life this winter

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Deliver a Good End of Life- 9 Steps to Add Death and Dying to Your Care Management Agency

Deliver a Good End of Life

Serve Your Client until Death Do You Part
Join me on January 24 2023 and learn why End of Life Services re a perfect new service for care managers

Deliver a Good End of Life

Learn to guide the patient/family through the five stages of death. Understand how to help clients be active participants in their care. Give the family caregivers tools to manage care. Find out how to provide family-centered care to caregivers and families. Learn to choose the right support services for the client through all stages of death.
Introduce Hospice and Palliative care to the client earlier and work with their team.
Find out how to use COVID -19 family coaching for GCM. Discover the role of Death Doula at end of life.

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