Professional Care Management

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Increasingly, adult children are taking on the responsibilities of caring for aging parents. Known as the "Sandwich Generation," these individuals are often caught between the demands of caring for aging parents and rearing children of their own. 

Aging adults, those with disabilities, and their family caregivers often face difficult and stressful challenges that can result in caregiver burnout, incomplete management of the aging parent’s medical care; medication regimen; financial assets and banking; and more. Families want to honor a parent’s desire to "age in place" while balancing safety and security concerns. Today more than ever, families are spread out geographically, sometimes leaving few or no family members to assist an aging parent who lives alone. 

Tidewater Elder Services Can Help.

Our Care Managers conduct in-depth assessments, develop individualized service plans and recommendations, coordinate services, act as liaisons to health care providers and insurers, and monitor services to ensure that a person’s needs and goals are being met. Staff is knowledgeable about resources and work closely with family and caregivers to identify community supports; reduce stress; and help make the caregiving process as positive as possible. We offer:

 

Care Management 

• Protection of vulnerable clients

• Decision-making conferences with the client and family/care team, and reporting to remote family caregivers

• Patient advocacy and facilitation of care planning with hospitals, nursing homes/assisted living and rehabilitation centers

• Arrangement and oversight of formal services, including personal care and/or medical services, home maintenance and repairs, pet care, transportation, downsizing/transitioning to care facility, and more. 

 

Fiduciary Services

• Guardian (Guardian of a person)

• Conservator (Guardian of an Estate)

• Trustee

• Health Care Representative

• Agent under POA (Power of Attorney)

 

Money Management 

• Bill paying and checkbook management

• Initiation of Long-Term Care Insurance Claims

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