Posts Tagged ‘elder mediator’
Does The Dysfunctional Aging Family Need Mediation Post The Holidays ?
If your clients ‘holiday visit from their family was miserable and you are care manager to the aging parents, a family meeting between the adult sisters and brothers might…
Read MoreHow is a Geriatric Care Manager a Care Connector With Mid Life Siblings ?
This is where the GCM needs to have clinical skills to can help with healing this sibling disconnection-often short circuited by an old sibling wound that helping the sister and brother work together as a circle of care . You replace the shorted fuse in the fuse box.
Read MoreDo Midlife Siblings in a Dysfunctional Family Need a Mediator?
Dysfunctional families are conflictive. They are incompatible and fragmented. Family members and midlife siblings historically argue constantly, even over relatively unimportant issues and often cannot even come to an agreement over uncomplicated matters. The family nest, from which these siblings sprang may have been a troubled one, in which dissension, rivalry and resentment were rife. Such rickety parental architecture can last a lifetime. Old conflicts between siblings or among adult children and the aging parent often resurface during a crisis period with aging parents
Read MoreHow To Work With A Mediator With A Dysfunctional Family-Can’t Make Up Reality- An Elder Kidnapping
Dysfunctional Families act out in Extreme ways and adult children kidnapping aging parents back and forth is an example. The reality is you cannot make this stuff up. It happens all the time. Find out about the Sniper kidnappers and answer some questions yourself.
Read MoreConflict Skills in the Aging Family- Do You Have Them?
Geriatric care manager’s do facilitation– but should they do mediation? Although sometimes used interchangeably, the terms mediation and facilitation refer to different processes. Broadly stated, facilitation requires meeting-management…
Read MoreHow Do You Link the Elder Circle of Care with Adult Siblings?
Emotional resources can link a circle of care for the direct family caregiver. These emotional supports could and should include adult siblings . Siblings are the longest and…
Read MoreTools of the Geriatric Care Manager -Expertise in Conflict
Based on training, education, experience, and professional discipline, care managers afford the family a unique perspective that can help bring clarity to a complex situation. Having access to someone who…
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