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Enhancing Quality of Life Through Senior Centers

May 29, 2018

Senior Centers have a whole new face in 2018

Senior Centers , now provide revamped, hip classes and exciting structured events for elders, On top of that they still offer old fashion opportunities to increase the quality of life for older adults. These innovative programs can include new/age for older people adaptive yoga, to increase physical health and at the same time social interactions that may lead to emotional and physical connections for elders

In Santa Cruz California, a city famous for it’s surfing, Lifespan 35-year-old care management agency, has added a game-changing program, their Well Being product. To enhance the quality of life they offer the services of personal assessments to increase the emotional, physical, spiritual or intellectual quality of life of an elder. Older people are often lost in retirement, having left the world of work and trying to fill the void with new friends and new ways to spend their time and finding joy in each day. If they have problems doing this on their own, it can result in depression, self-isolation and physical problems.

Lifespan’s Well Being Program care manager designs a care plan for each Well Being Client that takes their interests, physical and mental abilities and wishes for new things to do or old favorites to resurrect and designs a activities plan that uses among other resources in the community use seniors centers. Seniors centers in Santa Cruz, California, offer innovative programs that seniors are excited to join like Tai Chi, Qui Gong, boomer yoga,

If you are a geriatric care manager or an aging professional , think of adding senior centers and quality of life to your plan of care.Find this need through a quality of life assessment You will create a win-win care plan- for both the elder and the adult children’s emotional quality of life— Really – for the whole aging family.

What is a Geraitric Care Management Care Plan? Finding Interventions

August 10, 2013

Finding Interventions for the Care Plan

Your care plan interventions are found in the continuum of care in your community. But, how do you find this continuum? As a GCM, you should already have significant experience in this continuum before you open your GCM door for business. This is what is meant by your core competence to open a geriatric care management business. You need to know your community’s continuum of care from day one.

You can access most areas of the continuum of care on the Internet. You can access your counties or Area Agency on Aging Web site, which should include Senior Information and Referral .

Their website should list all the current senior services (nursing home, Assisted Living, senior transportation, friendly visitors, private duty home care, Medicare based Home care, support groups etc.) available in your area. If they have no web site go to their office and get a booklet that may sell with all the services in the continuum of care in your area.

Memorial Day- Look Into GRECC- Great Program of VA

May 27, 2013

Here is a follow up to my blog yesterday from the front page of the Wall Street Journal today Memorial Day.

If you work with elders look into the GRECC program . I can’t say enough about the VA once you get there- (a mountain to climb). But at the top is heaven. My Dad and I got the best care in the world. He had a geriatrician who spent an hour with him each visit, all the supplies he needed, psychiatric services, kindness, gentleness, transportation almost door to door and respect for what he had suffered and who he was in the here and now.

I got a geriatric assessment. I teach it, think it, write it but no one ever had the kindness to offer it to me. I found in those few hours with the VA RN and Social Worker what an incomparable tool it really is. Their goal was to tell me my Dad was going to die and help me through it. I wasn’t a geriatric care manager then- I was just who I really am, a daughter, caregiver and human being in pain. They supported me, gave me tools, consoled me ,cradled me.

So I would like to honor the GRECC program on Memorial Day and say it is brilliant, human, kind, and a tool that the VA offers that is life changing to all who use it. It was all that to me and my father- Harry V. Cress pictured above.

Enhancing Quality of Life Through Senior Centers

April 27, 2013

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Senior Centers ,which provide drop-in opportunities and structured events, can provide great openings for older adults to have social interactions that may lead to friendships. Friendships can really increase their emotional quality of life- at any age- but particularly old age. Many schools and day care centers also have inter-generational programs with senior centers , where older adults can spend time with children, each enjoying the special gifts the other brings to the exchange. Any time you combine children and older adults –magic happens. That magic is the enhanced emotional quality of life of both the older person and the child. Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren bring luster to an elder’s life.They also, pretty much at any age bring technology.

At 68, I would put myself in this category . Just being with my twin grandsons for their birthday last week infused happiness into my entire being.My two year old grandson turned on I tunes on my I phone. Only he- the two year old –knew how to turn the music off.

If you are a geriatric care manager or an aging professional , think of adding senior centers and inter-generational programs to your plan of care.Find this need through a quality of life assessment You will create a win win care plan- for both the elder and the children’s emotional quality of life— Really – for everyone.

Change and Loss – How Does a Psychosocial Assessment Help Fill These Holes?

April 23, 2013

Watch interview I did on March 27, 2013 with Ramsey Bahrawy -Your Money Your Life- on psychosocial assessment of an elder and how this assessment can pinpoint the holes and losses in an older person’s life and create a care plan to weave a new strong safety net to fill these holes.

What is a Geraitric Care Management Care Plan? Finding Interventions

Memorial Day- Look Into GRECC- Great Program of VA

Enhancing Quality of Life Through Senior Centers

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