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Areas to Cover in Whole Family Approach -Relationship to Money

June 17, 2013

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Relationship to Money- Values concerning spending, saving, and inheritance often impact the family caregiver. This must be picked up in a psychosocial assessment using the whole family approach.

The circumstances for those who lived through the great depression have made many adults fearful of spending and taking any financial risks. Raised in a relatively secure environment, this can be very difficult for the adult children to understand. Talking to “The Greatest Generation” parents about money is difficult, especially if the money you are talking about is theirs. They belong to a generation that was taught to keep their information private, and not to share their concerns openly. Even if they need help, they may not be willing to talk to you, because it’s ‘none of your business,’ or because they are afraid to give up control over their financial affairs.

It is incumbent upon adult children to bring up this difficult topic of money before a crisis hits. This can assure that the emotional aspects of spending; the differing relationships to money, and the objective realities are resolved. All too common, when financial issues are ignored, situation of inappropriate spending, withholding of services or fiduciary misconduct arise.

There are other situations in which family members may question expenditures for the senior, out of concern that future inheritance may be depleted. This is another problem with relationship to money. If the aging professional or geriatric care manager finds adult children withholding needing services even if the money is there to pay for them that is a red flag.

 

All this can be gathered by using the whole family approach and talking to each adult child in the family plus the elderly client, spouse, physician and elder law attorney if in the case.

Filed Under: Aging Tagged With: aging family, aging parent, aging parent care, elder financial abuse, elder fiscal abuse, elder law attorney, elders not spending money on care, financial abuse, geraitric care manager, Geriatric Assessment, geritaric care manager, greatest Generation, greatest generation cohorts, greatest generations relationship with money, Marriage and Family Therapist, Psychsocial Assessment, quality of life in retirement, relationship to money in aging, Whole Family Approach, whole family assessment

Watch new Interview With Cathy Cress MSW March 27,2013

March 26, 2013

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Interview March 27, 2013 with Cathy Cress MSW with Ramsey Bahrawy –Your Money Your Life- Psychosocial assessment of an elder to assess anxiety and depression

 

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How do You Craft a Care plan for a Dual Assessment

March 14, 2013

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Filed Under: Aging Tagged With: activities of daily living, activities of daily living- mobility, aging family, Aging In Place, aging parent, care plan, care plan as saftey net, care plan interventions, care planning, caregiver assessment, caregiver burnout, caregiver family meeting, caregiver overload, caregiver overwhelm, caregiving family members, Cognitive Assessment, Depression Assessment for Older person, elder financial abuse, Functional Assessment, geraitric assessment, geraitric care manager, geriatric care management, Handbook of Geriatric Care Management third edition, IADL assessment, MFT, midlife siblings, My Geraitric Care Management Operations Manual, protecting elder assets, Psychsocial Assessment, sibling teamwork, standby assistance

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.

Filed Under: Aging Tagged With: Area Agency on Aging, care plan, care plan as saftey net, care plan interventions, care planning, case manager, Cathy Jo Cress, Charlottes Web, Continuum of Care, Functional Assessment, geraitric assessment, geraitric care manager, geriatric care management, geriatric care manager, internet and caregiving, My Geraitric Care Management Operations Manual, National Association of Geriatric Care Managers, parent care crisis, Professional in aging, Psychsocial Assessment, red flags for a family meeting

Multiple Assessment- How Do you Merge Multiple Care Plans?

February 28, 2013

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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 so you do a Geriatric Depressionscale. You always screen for dementia so you do a mental status exam . You make a home safety assessment part of every client assessment so you complete a home safety assessment. Then you have an exhausted caregiver who is a live-in girlfriend, up in age herself so you so a caregiver assessment . Do you do a care plan with each of these assessments? Yes, Do you give the family trust officer, third party seven care plans? No. All care plans are integrated into one care plan. How do you do this? We will be covering this is my next blog.

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