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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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Build Emotional Quality of Life Through Technology?

April 7, 2013

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If you are a geriatric care manager or aging professional wishing to enhance an older person’s emotional quality of life, one of the focal point is getting rid of social isolation. This can include engaging with family and friends, or connecting with programs that enhance inter-generational relationships. Elders can be great storytellers or family historians to grandchildren and  grandparents can certainly read those childhood books grandchildren and great grandchildren- helping parents who work or are very busy.

Grown grandchildren can Skype with grandparents, write card and letters, visit occasionally. They can even set up the Skype or face time  programs for grandparent’s social opportunities. If the family lives locally, it could be as simple as a grandchild working to arrange a regular schedule for visits for other grandchildren or using Google calendar or a  great family caregiving calendaring program like Lots of helping Hands . This allows grandchildren who are always super tech savvy to coordinate social interaction with grandparents. You can even do old school and just coordinate call and visits on a paper. Calendar visits or have grandchildren and adult children sign a guest book when they arrive so the client knows when to expect company and can look forward to these interactions instead of not knowing when or if someone is going to arrive. This you are building intergenerational relationships, reducing isolation and boredom and improving emotional quality of life of an older person.

 

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What is a Geriatric Care Management Operations Manual ?

April 1, 2013

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How Do You Create a Care Plan?-Finding Interventions

March 12, 2013

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To create a care plan’s interventions to client’s problems you need a continuum of care. How do you find this continuum? As a geriatric care manager or aging professional, you should already have significant experience in this continuum before you open your door for business. A core competence to open a geriatric care management business or any other aging related business is to know your need to know your community’s continuum of care from day one.

As your care plan or the safety net you build or expand around your client web billows, expands, compresses, and changes constantly, you need the real Web to help you keep up. You can access most areas of the continuum of care and all its changes (new businesses, new senior services offered in part through the Internet. You can access your county’s or Area Agency on Aging Web site, which will usually list all the current senior services available in your town. Almost every county in the US has an area agency on aging and most have a web site that lists all the services available to seniors by category, such as nursing home, assisted living, home care agency, support groups, senior transportation etc.

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What Is a Psychosocial Assessment ? – Social Supports

December 5, 2012

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