Dysfunctional Aging Families Can Wreak Havoc at End of Life

February 18, 2021

What do Feuding families do at the end of life?

When a family member is facing death and dying dysfunctional families have flawed conversations. Often they do not communicate at all or engage in destructive banter. They see one another as enemies. They demonize one another.

Feuding families are what I call dysfunctional families. They blame each other instead of locking arms in a crisis.

They sabotage resolution.

They actively compound already difficult decisions with intractable, interpersonal conflict. They create problems independent of the underlying issues.

Facing Fractured Communication

What are some of the struggles that these aging dysfunctional families with fractured communication can face?

Aging parents who lack the capacity to make decisions have no advance directives, DPOA and a

health-care proxy, and adult siblings, who must make end of life decisions, can’t agree

Withdrawal of life support with no designated health care agent and adult children and/or spouse disagree

Pain management adult children and/or and spouse disagree.

Answer to Fractured Family at End of Life – Mediation.

Mediation is a tool that can be a good resource for dysfunctional families at the end of life. It can help with these difficult families face the death of a parent without fracturing the entire family. It can allow an older person to die without pain inflicted by their own family.

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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.

GCM Care Plan Is Key to New Home Care Clients

March 5, 2015

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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.

What is as Listed # 1 Problem in a Care Plan?

August 31, 2013

How to Write a Measurable Care Plan Intervention

August 26, 2013

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.

GCM Care Plan Is Key to New Home Care Clients

What is as Listed # 1 Problem in a Care Plan?

How to Write a Measurable Care Plan Intervention

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