CareCheckers Call Service Checks on Your Elderly Loved Ones
CareCalls from Care Checkers are designed to assist families of aging and disabled loved ones by making daily health and safety checkup calls. Care Checkers offers medication reminders, meal reminders and activity reminders, along with friendly social interaction. All calls are made by live representatives, not an automated system. They keep caregivers updated with daily status reports [...]
Massachusetts General Hospital Documents the Benefits of Care Managers
Where do geriatric care managers fit into the health care system? Today I listened to a presentation about innovations in the delivery of health care. Timothy Ferris, M.D., M.Phil, M.P.H., Medical Director, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization reported these important results of adding care managers to Massachussets General Hospital (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School) in a [...]
Does Your Elderly Loved One’s House Support Their Needs?
My pals at BuilderFish have produced a very practical guide for making sure your home supports you and your loved ones at every stage of life. The BuilderFish “Lifetime Home Survey” is free, comprehensive, easy to read and easy to apply. If you’re building a new home, remodeling your home, or preparing for the move-in of a loved [...]
What can a Geriatric Care Manager do for You?
A geriatric care manager can bring your loved one the support they need without putting stress on your life!
Thanking my clients for their…Moxie!
My clients have moxie. I love them for it! Two of my beloved clients died this year but while they lived they did it moxily! One of them raised three kids on her own after her husband was killed suddenly in a freak accident. She picked herself up and did what needed to be done – [...]
Be a Caregiving Genius! Ten Easy Tips
Want to be a caregiving genius? Try these ten easy tips! How do I know so much, besides the fact that I’m a geriatric care manager? I like to listen to my clients, and yesterday one of them said to me (and I quote) “You are a genius!” Hey, cut my pay in half and sign me [...]
The Intimacy of Caregiving
I knocked on the door – no answer. I called – no answer. His newspaper was still by the door. I asked if the neighbors had seen him. No. I was checking in on a new 90-year-old client while his family was away for the weekend. On Saturday everything went as planned – he greeted me [...]
Helping Senior Citizens Relocate
Do you know a senior citizen who is facing a household move? Change is difficult for anyone, and it can be especially unsettling for senior citizens. Moving one’s house means moving one’s home. It means giving up familiar surroundings and routines and often means giving up cherished belongings that signify memories, accomplishments, and affection. It may [...]
Caregiving – How Everyone Can Win
In my work as a geriatric care manager I’m always looking for the win/win/win scenario: the client wins, the caregiver wins, the community wins. I see so many caregivers frustrated because their loved ones won’t accept the help they appear to need. But who really wants to “be helped?” We are used to being independent and productive, [...]
Joy with Our Mothers Now
I spoke on Jennifer Till’s radio show about how we can miss the joy of “now” with our mothers by relating to them based on past experiences. (Click here to listen to a recording of that episode of “Real Life with Jennfer Till.”) Perhaps we had difficult childhood experiences with our mothers that we haven’t fully [...]
