Cathy Cress

Expert in Aging Life and Geriatric Care Management

Can a Caregiver Assessment Avoid UnnecessaryPlacement ?

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When a Caregiver is so Overwhelmed that A SNF is a Choice but a Very Bad Choice

If the family is so overwhelmed by the care that they are considering placement, this threat should trigger the GCM to do a caregiver assessment immediately, found in the Handbook of Geriatric Care Management If the GCM is called to relocate an older person and the underlying cause seems to be caregiver burnout, this can be another trigger to use this valuable GCM tool. By using a caregiver assessment the geriatric care manager may find that building respite for the caregiver, through other relative or paid caregivers, a caregiver support group, or coaching the caregiver to make changes that make her/ his tasks more bearable and doable and avoid inappropriate placement of the older person

Avoid Elder Physical Abuse Though a Caregiver Assessment

 

If caregiver abuse is suspected, a caregiver assessment is a critical immediate tool. This is a situation where the GCM must contact Adult Protective Services, following their own state’s laws. Elder abuse can be triggered by caregiver stress in some situations. Depression that reaches a clinical level in a caregiver can be predictive of elder abuse of an elderly client can prompt a GCM to do a caregiver assessment.  You should also do a geriatric depression scale at the same time. Use the GDS and the caregiver assessment to help both the caregiver and the care receiver and avoid the risk of physical abuse and prevent involvement of APS making the caregiver and care receiver’s lives even more painful and chaotic and risking placement in a nursing home.

Mrs. Handy has Two Dads in Her Head

Let’s take the example of Mrs. Handy, a caregiver daughter caregiver She calls a GCM as she is about to place her Dad. Besieged by so many other stressors,  her own health is deteriorating because she cannot get any sleep, due to her Dad going to bed so late and her inability to rise above her old self when her Dad was 40 and she was 19 and what he said she did. Now he is 70, very impaired with vascular dementia, incontinent and she needs to be who she is in the here and now a woman of 40, caring for an impaired Dad in her 70’s. The care manager coached her to set a new boundary for him to go to bed early. She needs help in getting rid of the old parent in her head and putting the 70-year-old demented incontinent parent before her. In addition, she sees her doctor for depression, joins an online caregiver support group, and asks siblings in other towns to take her Dad once a month for a week. Her Dad is not moved to skilled nursing. This is what a geriatric care manager can do for her to help avoid unnecessary placement.

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Innappropriate Threat of Placement =Caregiver Assessment

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When a Caregiver is so Overwhelmed that A SNF is a Choice but a Very Bad Choice

If the family is so overwhelmed by the care that they are considering placement, this threat should trigger the GCM to do a caregiver assessment immediately, found in the Handbook of Geriatric Care Management If the GCM is called to relocate an older person and the underlying cause seems to be caregiver burnout, this can be another trigger for a caregiver assessment. If caregiver abuse is suspected, a caregiver assessment is a critical immediate tool. This is a situation where the GCM must contact Adult Protective Services, following their own state’s laws. Elder abuse can be triggered by caregiver stress in some situations. Depression that reaches a clinical level in a caregiver can be predictive of elder abuse of an elderly client can prompt a GCM to do a caregiver assessment.  You should also do a geriatric depression scale at the same time. Use the GDS and the caregiver assessment to help both the caregiver and the care receiver at the same time.

Mrs. Handy has Two Dads in Her Head

Mrs. Handy our caregiver in many other blogs is about to place her Dad because she is besieged by so many other stressors. Her own health is deteriorating because she cannot get any sleep, due to her Dad going to bed so late and her inability to rise above her old self when her Dad was 40 and she was 19 and what he said she did. Now he is 70, very impaired with vascular dementia, incontinent and she needs to be who she is in the here and now a woman of 40, caring for an impaired Dad in her 70’s. She needs to set the boundary of him going to be early. She needs help in getting rid of the old parent in her head and putting the 70-year-old demented incontinent parent before her. This is what a geriatric care manager can do for her to help avoid unnecessary placement.

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Join me soon 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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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 

Sign Up Now Limited Enrollment 

 

 

Test Your Business Idea to Start an Aging Life Geriatric Care Management Agency

The OLD adage goes, “ideas are a dime a dozen but what about a really good idea?How do you really know starting an aging life or geriatric care management business is a good idea and you’ve hit upon is something that’s going to work on all levels

You use planning methods to figure this out. You test your idea with by first defining the problem your geriatric care management agency is solving. How urgently do people in your area need what you are selling? You build an action model and test your assumption that you will be successful (make a profit) at running a geriatric care management business. You create a marketing survey if you have enough customers, a competition survey to see if you too much competition and a financial projection to see if this is a business where you make money.

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