Posts Tagged ‘home saftey assessment’
Post Holiday Red Flags to Hire Geraitric Care Manager
As the holidays dim and your January/February to-do’s fill up with worries about your aging parents , let’s help you focus. If you found it was actually frightening to be…
Read MoreHow To Create A Care Plan- Sifting Clues
How do you create a care plan or your professional opinion of what the family ought to do to solve its problems? You begin by gathering all of the…
Read MoreMultiple Assessment- How Do you Merge Multiple Care Plans?
If you have an elderly client is need of your geriatric care management or elder care services initially you do psychosocial and functional assessment Next you feel depression is present…
Read MoreNew Old Age on Fall Prevention
Paula Span who has written the New Old Age Blog in the New York Times for many years has great resources for older family members , geriatric care managers…
Read MoreHome Modification- Convincing the Family or Older Adult
The Geriatric Care Manager’s or aging professionals job after a home safety assessment is next to see if changes can be made. How do you do…
Read MoreWhat Do You do Once Home Safety Assessment Done?
If you are a geriatric care manager or an aging professional and you have completed a home safety assessment, what is the next step? Check if a bonded handyman…
Read MoreHome Safety Assessment- Why?
Home Modification- The Key is Home Safety Assessment
A critical part of a geriatric assessment is home safety. Why? Falls number 1 cause of death for older people 65 or over. On fifth…
Read MoreHome Saftey Assessment – Preventing Falls
Falls are averted by a home safety assessment.This prevents falls but also fires and other dangers . In addition it helps older people and their families identify needed repairs so…
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