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What are Geriatric Care Management Tools?

May 21, 2013

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What are the tools a geriatric care manager uses? Like a carpenter ,GCM’s have saws and hammers, nails and architectural plans to follow. In the next few blogs I will discuss how the geriatric manager care manager can provide the tools, resources, and support for family caregivers.

In order to do so, it is important for the GCM look at the needs of the older adult in the context of the family unit. This is called the “Whole Family Approach”. How do these needs impact the family? How can family members regain a sense of balance? What are the tools that the care manager can offer family caregivers to assist them in the process? How can care managers best engage family caregivers effectively? Social workers, nurses and professionals in the field of aging all have tools. to help a family. Especially during National Geriatric Care Manager’s month, these tools are important for families and professional to understand and use.

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Mother’s Day in a Box for Long Distance Care Providers

May 6, 2013

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Are you a long distance care provider looking for a mother’s day gift for a grandmother? Here is a brilliant gift idea from tech saavy geriatric care manager Julie Menack’s chapter on long-distance care providers, in my book Care Managers and the Aging Family (Jones and Bartlett), 2008. If you are long-distance caregiver and cannot visit on holidays, you might want to send a holiday in a box.

This is a fun way to share the holidays, particularly if the care recipient resides in assisted living or a nursing home. All ages in the family can participate in communicating with your aging mom through the contents of the box. A mother’s day package might include a sign saying “Happy Mother’s Day” that you or your family make or buy. It could include candy if your mom can eat that—maybe her favorite kind.

If you can’t send flowers, but include silk or plastic flowers in the mother’s day box. Have the grandchildren make an old-fashioned wrist corsage out of paper flowers. Call the facility and ask if you can get gift certificate for her to get her hair done. Find out if they are having a brunch to celebrate Mother’s Day, and make sure your mom can attend. Buy her a new dress for the event and put it in the package. Have your children or grandchildren make individual handmade cards.

Set up a time for a phone call that works for both of you on Mother’s Day. Get the kids on the phone. If possible, call in the morning or early evening when your mom may be feeling lonely. And, of course, make sure everything arrives well in advance, which would mean mailing very soon.

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

April 23, 2013

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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.

 

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What’s the Difference Between a Psychosocial and Functional Assessment of an Elder?

April 15, 2013

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What is the difference between a psychosocial and a functional assessment. Find out more in my interview on Your Money Your Life , this unique You Tube Channel covering Elder Issues

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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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