What is a Geriatric Care Manager? A Geriatric Care Manager is a professional who specializes in assisting older people and their families with long-term care arrangements. Geriatric Care Managers can help: • Provide compassionate, comprehensive services through in-home assessments, counseling, recommendations, advocacy, education and placement. • Conduct care-planning assessments to identify problems, eligibility for assistance, and need for services. • Screen, arrange and monitor in-home help or other services. • Review financial, legal or medical issues. • Act as a liaison to families at a distance, making sure things are going well and alerting families to problems. • Assist with moving an older person to or from a retirement complex, assisted living facility or nursing home. • Offer counseling and support and more. Geriatric Care Managers have extensive knowledge about the cost, quality and availability of service in their community. One call to a Geriatric Care Manager will connect you with the services an older person may need. The benefits of care management: • Geriatric Care Managers can give short-term or ongoing assistance for long distance caregivers. • Personalized, gentle service specially to meet the client’s wants and needs. • Accessibility since many Geriatric Care Managers are available after hours and on weekends for emergencies. • Continuity of care management to reduce miscommunications, time, stress and cost to clients. • Efficiency and flexibility because Geriatric Care Managers services are streamlined and client-centered, not complicated by bureaucratic red tape. • Cost-control. Geriatric Care Managers strive to reduce inappropriate institutional care an overuse of services. They match the service to the client’s needs and help contain costs. On going monitoring can prevent costly crises and unnecessary hospitalization. • Quality Control. Geriatric Care Managers have adopted standards for practice for all its members. The National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers is a organization of practitioners whose goal is the advancement of gently and dignified care for the elderly and their families. A reputable geriatric care manager is certified and belongs to the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers. Carol H. Solomon is the past President of The New Jersey Chapter of The National Association of Professional Geriatric Care managers.

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