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What is the Care Manager’s Role with Hospice?

February 25, 2021

What is a Geriatric Care Manager’s Role in Hospice?

The geriatric care manager serves older adults before they find they are dying. GCM’s work with chronic care clients, some times for years, who eventually succumb to their illness. 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

A care manager is a GPS for both the client and family through the

5 stages, bringing in critical services like palliative care and hospice

caregiver respite and quality of life the whole continuum of care for supporting the end of life- at the right phase at the right time –

Benefits You (as a GCM) will Bring to Hospice

You (as a geriatric care manager) will bring the client to Hospice much earlier in the 5 stages of death and dying than one month before death

You will do a Quality of Death assessment to find out the patient’s wishes for a good death

You will make sure all the critical paperwork is needed is gathered and organized, including:
Insurance
Legal
Financial
Healthcare
End of life

Interventions vary according to the phase. The GCM may already have served the client and they are now facing a terminal diagnosis. But a geriatric care manager may be brought in when the family is negotiating through any one of these phases, their work begins with making a determination of what phase the client is in and what services are appropriate for that client at that stage. They are also the best professionals to bring in the quality of life to every phase so that the client can have not only a good death but a good life to the very end.

Benefits You Bring To the Family Friends and Hospice

You will monitor the client/care receiver’s and family caregiver’s health and psychosocial status and the paid caregiver’s care plan, to improve the quality of care and life for the client and caregiver So That Hospice can direct all it’s attention to the client and assured family
caregivers needs are being met

Shot of a wife consoling her husband during a counseling session with a therapist

You will accompany the client to all medical appointments and make sure that the 10 minutes cover all questions, that the physician’s orders are recorded and followed, and that all meds are picked up and set up properly So What –Hospice does not provide this and ensures the client gets to all appointment relieves the family of another task and everyone is getting all the correct information from the physician

You will make sure that the family has an online personal health record or a notebook if they wish So What -The family has a way to keep track of information from many professional involved and passes on the correct information to everyone in the family and they can feel more in control in an emotionally chaotic time

You will do a caregiver assessment and suggest interventions from the local continuum of care, including support groups, counseling, respite care, and private duty home care So What –You are insuring a whole family approach and the family caregivers are getting the support and respite they need in this frightening time for their loved one

You will coordinate family meetings to facilitate issues like shock, grief, and shutting down So What- You are a container, allowing the family caregiver to deposit their tremulous at timesdesperate feelings in a safe place so they can get help from you and be calmer for the dying loved one
You will coordinate health literacy information and training of disease skills for family So What- You will create a forum for the family caregivers to express their grief, fear and even hopes and demystifying all the unknown medical terminology to make the family feel more literate and self-assured in approaching the medical staff to get the information they need

You will monitor anticipatory grief in family and friends and bring in resources

So What- You will create a forum for the family caregivers to express their grief fear even hope and find the help they need to so on with the journey to death

You will review all new medication with family caregivers and care staff- So What-you will unravel the confusing litany of pharmaceutical terminology and make sure the family and friends both understand what med does what, how to set up meds and remind the meds when hospice is not present

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Why You Need a Marketing Data Base Especailly Now with COVID?

September 21, 2020

COVID Has Made Marketing To Lead Sources Critical

Geriatric Care Managers Need a Marketing Database

You need a marketing or Contact Management database( CRM) to market to lead sources. An aging life or geriatric care management agency’s marketing has three key target audiences or lead sources: individual clients who need care, referral sources, and children of aging parents. Marketing databases are the key to reaching lead sources such as 3rd party referrals like elder law attorneys, upscale assisted living, trust officers, concierge physicians.

In the Deadly Fall Confluence of COVID and Seasonal Flu You Really Need the Right Marketing DataBase

The JAMA Journal tells us “The confluence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and seasonal influenza this fall and winter will result in considerable morbidity and mortality, stressing the health

system. With more than 200 000 COVID-19–related deaths already, the US could see a second wave of disease later this year. In 2018-2019 (a “moderate” year for influenza), the US experienced 35.5 million influenza cases, with 490 600 hospitalizations and 34 200 deaths related to influenza.¹ An effective COVID-19 vaccine is unlikely until 2021. Even though seasonal influenza vaccines have variable year-to-year effectiveness, they can significantly reduce morbidity and mortality, especially with high coverage.”

Here are some of the many choices ALCA or Geriatric Care Managers can check out

SalesForce For Small Business
GoldMine
Act!
Highrise is a contact management database. Easier to use than SalesForce, Basic account for 6 users, with 5 GB of storage and 5,000 contacts is $24.00 monthly.
Zoho lets you have 3 users and up to 5,000 contacts. An Excel spreadsheet of contacts can work in a start-up if the file is set up correctly to capture the necessary information.
Clear care can also be used as a contact database and a client database used by Aging Life GCM who have a home health component
WHY DO YOU NEED Customer Relationship Database FOR MARKETING?
Rolodex on Speed
Throw away all those business cards
ADD all 3rd party targets you need to market to for referrals
all contacts in the community that help you weave a care plan- can be the same as targets
all the contacts that you use as your individual prescription- which is your care plan
Will send a form elder law letter to all elder law or third party contacts o ( Att) track all calls or marketing visits to a concierge physician or any contact group C(P)Track your marketing visits, data, send Follow up letters
Adding all of your continuum of care or all contacts in the community that help you weave a care plan- physicians, elder mediators, CCRC and all housing, MFT who specialize in aging-Use all the really good contacts that you use as your individual prescription- which is your care plan-
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What GCM Benefits to Offer Wealth Management- Trust Departments ?

March 17, 2020

Finding Wealthy Clients Through Trust Departments

How do you find long-term clients from the top 10% financially- who can afford geriatric care management and home care and then offer sustainable financial growth to your Aging Life or GCM company?

Some of the hardest clients to find are the probably upper 5% who have their money managed by a Trust Department of a bank.

How Do You Locate Trust Departments to Market to?

Not all banks have Trust Departments and you want to find banks near you who do. Plus the trust department of a bank usually is not in every bank but in one central bank in a larger city, serving all the branches. For example, I live in small Santa Cruz, California and Northern Trust, and Wells Fargo Trust are all located in San Francisco or Palo Alto.

Once you locate the central trust department then you have to make an appointment and sell yourself to meet with the trust officers. Your sales pitch needs to be uber good enough to allow the trust officer to refer you on to the trust clients, who often have 5 million or more in assets.

You offer to the trust officer must include superior professional Gold Standard Concierge Service to Client and Family- Care that the wealth manager and entitled client demand.

But your most compelling sales message to a trust department or any 3rd party is not that you have something wonderful to sell –it is ” I understand what your clients need and what will benefit both your wealthy clients and what will benefit you.”

You sell GCM or ALCA to wealth managers through the VIP benefits you bring them through the Benefit”SO” method

You offer high-end services from your resource databases like private drivers, private chefs, car services, exclusive golf clubs and recreation that cater to entitled older clients, and upscale trust clients –Benefit So– the wealth manager will be assured you know what his high-end clients prefer for services

You explain that you are skilled in working with difficult entitled clients who can be narcissistic, demanding and unreasonable- Benefit- So the wealth manager can do what they do best= manage money and you can solve the dysfunctional family issues that wealthy difficult families are plagued with when agreeing on the best care needs for their parents.

Regularly monitor the status of an older client and report back to the financial advisors when a change in care needs or level of care is needed Benefit so the wealth manager can work with her clients financial needs and you, the professional care manager can assess and inform her about the health and psychosocial needs so aging problems not become a crisis and are solved preventatively

Organize community resources for clients so have the highest quality VIP health care and quality of life Benefit so the wealth manager can suggest the most gold standard and highest quality services in the community to meet her clients needs as he ages

Make clients feel engaged with your health and social services concierge who works with them individually and understand their exclusive needs -Benefit So the entitled trust client feel that they have a 1-1 concierge who will serve them individually in finding the best, VIP care, they feel they deserve

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Close the GCM or ALCA Sale to Assisted Living With Benefits

February 19, 2020

Marketing Tactics -Use Benefits

ALCA members need to sell the benefits of Geriatric Care Management to assisted living. Care managers are perfect professionals to help assisted living residents if they have just moved in and are unhappy with the move if they are not participating in activities and withdrawing from friends and in general when they are nor thriving in the resident community.

But marketing care management to ALF’s takes some particular marketing tactics

Although it might seem counterintuitive, consumers rarely want to buy things for the sake of buying them – they want what they purchase to solve their problems.

To borrow from the example of an umbrella, a feature of this particular umbrella might be its unbreakable spokes or wind-resistant construction – the benefit of which is staying dry even in strong winds that might break lesser umbrellas. The benefit of staying dry in strong winds that break other umbrellas – make the sale.

Clients who purchase home care or care management want to buy benefits – what your product or service can do for them.

GCM Benefits To Assisted Living

Let’s take a third-party. Care Managers often market to Assisted Living. ALF Directors want to hear how your ALCA or GCM agency is going to help the Assisted Living site. Of course, you can describe your agency features, price, training of staff, gold standard service. However, benefits are what make the sale and keep the Assisted Living dry not flooded by the rain.

So here are some benefits you can offer to Assisted Living when you are seeking referrals and you have a service for residents that involves Quality Of Life

YOUR GCM ALCA AGENCIES BENEFITS

The problem: Assisted Living does not want residents to move out most facilities are strictly non-medical and do not have one to one companion and geriatric care management services. Your agency can solve that problem.

The assisted living and retirement community population sometimes have clients with needs that cannot be met with their nonmedical, non-one-on-one support services, (usually just an activities director)

You will help facility with residents who are not adjusting to the facility or considering moving by engaging them in activities that will enhance the quality of their life, SO WHAT so they remain in the facility
You will help residents not engaging in activities to participate in the ALF’s activities program or outside activities and socialization program through a quality of life assessment & companion, SO WHAT so they do not want to move out of the facility
You will engage with new residents who are just adjusting both to the facility and their move, to engage in socialization and activity programs. You can help them make friends & engage in outside activities through a quality of life assessment and companion, SO WHAT so they do not consider moving out
You will make monthly monitoring visits to make sure Companion is meeting all the client’s needs, keep in touch with the family and facility with frequent e-mails, texts or telephone updates plus sending a monthly report SO WHAT so everyone is on the same page through your great communication skills.

So, selling the benefits to the third party, who will refer your agency to families of residents who are struggling, is a much more potent selling point that features of your agency.

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What is a benefit vs features and how to find benefits for each 3rd party you market to?

What specific problems you solve for wealth managers, elderlaw attorneys and concierge physicians

What specific problems to solve for upscale Assisted Living, accountants, financial planners, MD’s

Step by Step how to set up meetings with 3rd parties to make the sale

What GCM Benefits to Offer Wealth Management- Trust Departments ?

February 11, 2020

Signing Up ENTITLED CLIENTS

You offer superior professional Gold Standard Concierge Service to Client and Family- Care that the wealth manager and entitled client demand.

But your most compelling sales message to a trust department or any 3rd party is not that you have something wonderful to sell it is ” I understand what you need what will benefit you.”

You sell GCM or ALCA to wealth managers through the VIP benefits you bring them through the Benefit”SO” method

Are skilled in working with difficult entitled clients who can be narcissistic, demanding and unreasonable- Benefit- So the wealth manager can do what they do best= manage money and you can solve the dysfunctional family issues that wealthy difficult families are plagued with when agreeing on the best care needs for their parents.

Regularly monitor the status of an older client and report back to the financial advisors when a change in care needs or level of care is needed Benefit so the wealth manager can work with her clients financial needs and you, professional care manager can assess and inform her about the health and psychosocial needs so aging problems not become a crisis and are solved preventatively

Join me in my new FREE Webinar
Learn to Sell Benefits not Features to Third Parties to Grow Your Care Management Bottom Line

When: February,20th 2020
2 PM-3:30 PM PST
Learn

What is a benefit vs features and how to find benefits for each 3rd party you market to?

What specific problems you solve for wealth managers, elder law attorneys, and concierge physicians

What specific problems to solve for upscale Assisted Living, accountants, financial planners, MD’s

Step by Step how to set up meetings with 3rd parties to make the sale

Contact

Connect with Cathy

Get Cathy’s “10 Critical Success Steps to a Profitable Aging Life or GCM Business”

What is a Geriatric Care Manager’s Role in Hospice?

Benefits You (as a GCM) will Bring to Hospice

Benefits You Bring To the Family Friends and Hospice

Join me in my new FREE Webinar Learn to Sell Benefits not Features to Third Parties to Grow Your Care Management Bottom Line

COVID Has Made Marketing To Lead Sources Critical

Geriatric Care Managers Need a Marketing Database

In the Deadly Fall Confluence of COVID and Seasonal Flu You Really Need the Right Marketing DataBase

Here are some of the many choices ALCA or Geriatric Care Managers can check out

WHY DO YOU NEED Customer Relationship Database FOR MARKETING?

Finding Wealthy Clients Through Trust Departments

How Do You Locate Trust Departments to Market to?

You sell GCM or ALCA to wealth managers through the VIP benefits you bring them through the Benefit”SO” method

Free Webinar-Sales and Marketing to Find the VIP Concierge Client

March 31, 2020 -2PM -3:30 PM PST

Learn

Marketing Tactics -Use Benefits

GCM Benefits To Assisted Living

YOUR GCM ALCA AGENCIES BENEFITS

Free Webinar –

Signing Up ENTITLED CLIENTS

You sell GCM or ALCA to wealth managers through the VIP benefits you bring them through the Benefit”SO” method

Join me in my new FREE Webinar Learn to Sell Benefits not Features to Third Parties to Grow Your Care Management Bottom Line

Contact

Connect with Cathy

Get Cathy’s “10 Critical Success Steps to a Profitable Aging Life or GCM Business”

Join me in my new FREE Webinar
Learn to Sell Benefits not Features to Third Parties to Grow Your Care Management Bottom Line

Join me in my new FREE Webinar
Learn to Sell Benefits not Features to Third Parties to Grow Your Care Management Bottom Line