Cathy Cress

Expert in Aging Life and Geriatric Care Management

GCM Care Plan Is Key to New Home Care Clients

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By adding geriatric care management to your private duty home care agency, your new clients will understand the solutions and path to hope you bring beyond home care. This offers buy in to your agency, customer satisfaction and trust in your service.

The care planning process a geriatric care manager does can be vital to families particularly in the early stages of caregiving. Most families do not understand the needs and problems of the older adult. or the costs associated with these options.   They are under terrible stress because they feel out of control. The care manager will explain the problems solutions and cost at a one to one  care planning meeting. This make new families and clients feel in control and have hope, which is vital to keeping the case long term. GCM becomes their  trusted guide.

 

A geriatric care manager sorts all the problems in the case and come up with important solutions in a care plan  they use that to explain what is needed for the client. She is very much like a detective- a professional Sherlock Holmes, solving the case for the very confused, desperate family.

 

 Providing a care plan and opportunity for discussion and buy-in among family members can therefore be an important step in educating, starting initiating, modifying, or continuing PDHC services.

 

 

 

How to Write a Measurable Care Plan Intervention

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Creating the care plan

¨ Start with problem you were called in to solve

¨ Can follow by a problem that you see as just as important or more important

¨ List all the problems gather in your assessments

List problems of client – most important to least important

4) Next to each problem, list the intervention you will suggest

5) Each intervention must have a clear plan of :

a) Who will carry it out?

b) How it will be carried out

c) Number of times it will be carried out.

Example

Impaired Home management-Mrs. Tornado cannot do her laundry

Intervention: Care provider to do laundry once a week on Tuesday

Example-

Problem- Self-care deficit-Mrs. Hurricane cannot shop weekly because she cannot drive

Intervention – Care provider to shop weekly by driving Mrs. Hurricane, with grocery list , Mrs. Hurricane gives care provider, to Safeway.

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