Hiring a Geriatric Care Manager
Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens
Often times, families are seeking a health care professional who is able to help coordinate and manage their loved one’s care. Geriatric Care Managers are licensed to oversee and manage the medical and non medical care of a client. Often times families seek a care navigator, someone who has both medical experience and understand non-medical supportive services. Health care options can be confusing. Families are seeking peace of mind knowing that they have explored the most appropriate and best care options for their loved one. This supervisory function is a patient advocate called a geriatric care manager. The care manager’s job is to oversee and supervise all care services.
Who Can Benefit from Hiring a Care Manger?
If you are struggling with care-giving for an aging parent and sense sandwiched between your own family obligations with kids, you are not alone. The decision to delegate a manager may help balance your emotions and commitments. A geriatric care manager’s function is to help families and patients navigate through healthcare choices that is ideal for the individual. Their sole role is to be a patient advocate, and make every attempt to keep a patient / family member aging in place at their home or an assisted living community.
Care Management and Palliative Care
Generally, palliative care managers help direct the elderly in making tough decisions when it comes to care and housing, based on a strong and comprehensive evaluation of the patient’s bodily and mental health, priorities, and financing. Every geriatric care manager is educated in different areas of human services, including psychology, nursing, and social work, and gerontology. These licensed workers are also trained to perform assessing, planning, organizing, tracking and providing services for the elderly, in addition to their families. So as to be informed consumers, elderly should always check the credentials of the geriatric care manager they’re considering hiring to be able to make confident the manager they will choose is a member of the National Association of Geriatric Care Managers.
Core Duties a Geriatric Care Manager Can Provide
- Housing — A geriatric care manager helps the elderly and their families to evaluate and choose appropriate senior living housing;
- Supervise duties of caregivers referred by Accountable Home Care
- Home care services — A geriatric care manager determine appropriate forms of non medical and medical providers and assist the household in monitoring and engaging those solutions;
- Medical direction — A care manager attends doctor appointments, accompany patients to hospitals and medical procedures to ease communication between the doctor and the family, and also monitor the adherence of the patient to medical orders;
- Social Activities — Hiring a geriatric care manager can help patient’s engage in cultural, recreational, and social activities so as to enhance their wellbeing;
- Financial — A care manager can help with finances by examining bills, consulting with accountant, attorney and banker;
- Safety and security — A geriatric care manager can help with help managing the home. Or as some folks prefer to say, geriatric care managers are Godsend for long distance family members.
What Families Need to Know Prior to Hiring a Care Manager
Prior to signing a contract with a care manager, it is very important you determine a budget and key role of the care manager. Some families would rather have the care manager delegate certain medical responsibilities while keeping an active role with their loved one. Be sure to determine a role and a monthly budget can help families have a good experience.
Regardless of the level of care of a patient, the care manager will conduct a preliminary assessment so as to produce a care plan for addressing the specific needs of the individual. The benefits of hiring a geriatric care manager are endless particularly if family does not reside around the regionFor starters, the costs are lower because hiring a geriatric care manager is likely to reduce the costs in the long term, as it will assist the customer to plan ahead and prevent rapid decisions which may prove too expensive or unnecessary.
Geriatric care managers can assist with navigating the medical system, since they’re also able to attend doctors’ appointments and make certain that the orders and instructions are known and followed. In conclusion, geriatric care managers represent a growing trend that assists employed family caregivers in providing care for their loved ones. In the past, few families used the assistance of these supervisors, but at the last few decades, this trend have become increasingly popular.
Call an Accountable Home Care team member today to learn more about a Geriatric Care Manager in the Palm Beach Gardens, North Palm Beach, Jupiter and West Palm Beach area.
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