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Care Managers provide advice, counseling services, and interventions among family members, clients, and caregivers, and seek to establish an agreement and work out any differences. Care managers not only supervise the multiple providers involved in the life of an aging person (caregivers, doctors, therapists, insurance and utility companies and bill…
Aging Care Managers (also knowns as Geriatric or Senior Care Managers) are licensed professionals, trained to provide a broad range of services, from coordinating caregivers and medication, to financial and medical oversight, to insurance and housing help, to offering family counseling and quality of life services. Most Aging Care Managers…
Your care manager will come to your home, hospital, or current location to discuss your problems and concerns and to help decide the best approach for your clinical, psychosocial, and financial needs. Care Managers should include recommendations for the most appropriate and safest location to live, caregiver requirements while living…
Family members often live out of town and hire caregivers help through an agency or privately. They need a care manager to check in periodically to make sure the caregiver is complying with the plan of care. Care managers can also determine if the client's care needs are changing and…
Care Managers are available to assist with paying bills, reviewing the mail, authorizing payment to a designee, and/or monitoring the overall financial situation for accuracy without duplication. If the care manager is not comfortable or the finances are complicated, they can refer you to a money manager, financial expert, or…
Sometimes living at home is not always the safest and most cost-effective place for the clients to be. In this situation, care managers can seek out the best alternative and advice the family on all available options. These could be senior housing, independent living, assisted living, or Memory Support. If…
Care Managers understand how to access various entitlements and benefits. They will introduce benefits you may not have been aware of, and they will help to fight for the services that you are entitled to receive. After years of practice in the healthcare industry, they know how to navigate the…
Clients may utilize a care manager to help them to get their essential documents and affairs in order; this could include HIPAA forms, Health Care Proxy, Living Will, or updating Beneficiaries on Life Insurance or Pensions.
Care Managers will escort clients to doctors’ appointments, share with the physician any changes, communicate medical updates to the family, and follow through on doctors’ recommendations. Follow-ups could include making appointments with specialists or picking up medication at the pharmacy and readjusting the medication pill box accordingly.