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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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What Good Life to The Very End Can a Care Manager Bring ?

January 18, 2023

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Bringing Good Life to The Very  End

What Good Life to the very end can you bring -in the terminal phase of life -? Here is a wonderful example 

 Bill died at the home of his son after he had accepted that he was to die of liver failure and stopped all lifesaving treatment, like dialysis at the hospital and entering hospice. The decision was made that he would die at his son’s home with 24 care from his Care Management agency Livhome and his ongoing care manager Mary Brennan.

After his coming to terms with his death, Bill and his family, sons,  grandchildren, and great grandkids were able to say their goodbyes and offer the unconditional love that they had been fearful to express before his acceptance of death. A feeling of light & joy permeated his room, a family room overlooking the garden, where his hospital bed was set up. Great-grandchildren brought pictures and marveled at “grandpa grandpa “ high up in a hospital bed.

The  Good Life to The Very End -Joy of Hearing

His son put headphones with a mike on and William could hear and speak, as he had not in years.  It was like the wonderful film and concept  Alive Inside.  Hearing was a gift that gave him such joy in his last weeks of life.

The Good Life to the Very End- Let Family Just be Family

The family could just be family because they had care providers to care for bill. His 24-hour caregivers were gifted loving care providers from a GCM agency  Livhome. The 24-hour shifts included a nurse of 18 years from Central America and a man finishing his Ph.D. from the Congo. They cared for him with great warmth, so his family could just be family, relaxing in their love and surrounding him, as if in a circle, that swirled with 4 generations, going every which way while he watched, really loved, and melted into his last stage. His sons, grandchildren great grandchildren, and nephew ate meals, chitchatted, and welcomed each new family member coming in to see William, as he remained in the center in his hospital bed, the fulcrum of the gathering.

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The geriatric care manager, GCM Mary Brennan, from Livhome, a seasoned powerful and so kind LCSW, adjusted here and there, with care providers, and family needs. Bill’s needs followed the guidance of hospice, who were slowly increasing the pain meds, and supporting his health and medical care needs in death. The geriatric care management agency worked as a partner supplying 24 care and support for the family.

Bill was able to have again, a magical care provider from Livhome, who had been with him for almost two years and was so at the end.

You are only as strong as your weakest link- those are the care providers. These people were the raft that floated Bill up while the family, offered love and hospice provided medical and end-of-life support. Together they buoyed Bill into his last stage of dying, knowing that his family was the fabric of every step he took toward forward towards death. They gave him that good life till the very end.

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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.
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January 4, 2023

Good End of Life

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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

What Does a Care Manager Do Before End of Life Diagnosis?

November 29, 2022

End of Life has 5 Phases   

   

 

Before the end-of-life diagnosis, the ALCA or GCM care manager helps clients be active participants 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. GCMs 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 
  • 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 members make a list of questions and 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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  • 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

     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 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.Use  COVID -19  Family Coaching for GCM

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

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