What is a Geriatric Care Management Care Plan? Making Measurable Interventions

Your recommended care plan interventions should be measurable. This means you should specify the number of times an intervention will be carried out. For example, Acme Home Care will send an aide 5 days a week, Monday through Friday for 4 hours each day from 11AM to 2 PM to do light housekeeping, prepare lunch, leave dinner, help client with raised bed garden box, change sheets once a week, do laundry every other day.  This care plan should be in the clients’ home in a client charting book.

You need to show the family exactly how to measure whether the intervention was completed. For example the care provider will fill out and sign your agency’s care provider charting page for her/his shift. This  provides the GCM who monitors the care of the older person a basis to review both status of the older person and whether the care carried out your care plan. When the GCM makes a monitoring visit and checks the care providers charting and finds the care provider has not changed sheets or done the laundry, you know you need to follow up. If the family wants to monitor the care, this approach also tells them how to measure the care.