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Moving A Parent in – Anxiety and Depression About The Move

January 7, 2014

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 Considering Moving an Aging Parent into Your Home?

After the holiday when adult children gather and find a parent so disabled that they should not live alone anymore, then consider moving a parent in. I did this with great success in the ’80s as you can see by the photo above. But I teach geriatric care management and knew exactly what I needed to do to make it work. So if you found coal in your parent’s stocking – do not move the coal to your house, consider what changes you need to make or if you should even do this by hiring a geriatric care manager first to help you decide then help make a successful move and living situation. A recent PEW study shows the number of multi-generational households has jumped from 6.2 million to 7.1 million in the last two years — a faster growth rate that the previous eight years combined.

 What a Geriatric Care Manager Can Do to Help Your Decide

Before moving a parent into an intergenerational family situation, both a parent and adult child should consider having an Aging Life Care Manager assess the older person with a psychosocial assessment. The GCM can use the psychosocial assessment to assess depression, anxiety both of which may result from such a move after the elder given up their own space, their home.

 Losses of Moving For An Elder

BeccaJulia-94.jpgAn elder’s home reflects their history their own individuality, their privacy, and all their memories. The GCM can create interventions that the adult child can carry out to help with these mental health issues. There are also the issues of loss as the aging parent may after giving up their home, privacy, and history encased in their furniture pictures and the sense of home they have given up.

 The Anxiety and Depression of Moving for Elder

The aging parent can bring furniture and photos into that reflect their old home, but the deep feeling of loss, expressed in perhaps unanticipated anxiety and depression needs attention. I would certainly be consulting their primary physician but perhaps, new activities with the family, outside social engagement, quality of like interventions like continuing to go to baseball games, a knitting group, play bridge, attend yoga or travel, as examples.

 

Blending families does not always go smoothly and his best approached with caution and professional help before all make a decision to cohabit.

HVC-85th_20130525-233904_1.jpgA geriatric care manager or aging life care manager can also help your parents get engaged in outside activities by doing a quality of life assessment to find out the activities they enjoy and get them engaged in what they like to do in the community. This was the secret of my success. My mother in law and Dad moved in from different sides of the US for widely divergent reasons. ( pictures in family Photo above).His home was flooded by the storm of the century in 1989 after I had just Becca-Julia-Pop.JPGremodeled it and Becca my mother in law was living with the ” Love of her Life” and he had a stroke.

She was by nature a social butterfly. So I got her engaged in a women’s group at the local senior center, chair exercise, the blind center as she had macular degeneration and Sunday’s at the local Presbyterian church.

My Dad was more a recluse having PTSD from World War 2 and eventually I got him involved in the Catholic church, Cindy’s Celebrations local faith-based senior services where he and Becca went to lunch once a week. They celebrated their birthday, took them to great restaurants each week and played the big band music they loved in the Van. I arranged all transportation through our senior transportation LifeLine, both churches provided their own transportation as did Cindy’s Celebration

 

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Anxiety, Depression and Medication Abuse in Elders- How Do You Assess?

April 24, 2013

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Psychosocial and functional assessment of elders can reveal the presence of anxiety, depression and substance abuse. All of these which create giant, holes in an older person’s safety net. Substance abuse can be alcohol abuse or drugs. A physician many times prescribes multiple medication that can be abused by elders who suffer from depression and/or anxiety.Multiple physicians, can prescribe the same medications, if the older person is involved with what you call polypharmacy or getting the same prescription for from multiple doctors who do not know other doctors wrote the same prescriptions. Electronic medical records are a way to address this but not fail safe unless universal, as in true in the VA world wide.

 

Find out about assessment tools used by geriatric care managers and aging professional for assessing alcohol abuse, medication abuse, anxiety and depression on this segment of attorney Ramsey Bahwey who interviewed me recently on his You Tube show, You Money Your Life  about elder issues. Remember this is a 2 minutes interview and brief snapshot of what it takes me multiple lectures to cover. To learn more about psychosocial assessment visit my GCM You Tube channel

 

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Watch new Interview With Cathy Cress MSW March 27,2013

March 26, 2013

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Interview March 27, 2013 with Cathy Cress MSW with Ramsey Bahrawy –Your Money Your Life- Psychosocial assessment of an elder to assess anxiety and depression

 

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How Do You Do a Depression and Anxiety Assessment?

November 26, 2012

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