Proactive intervention
You notice warning flags and realize that something must be done but don’t know where to begin.
Handling Parent Care Challenges
Navigating Eldercare Challenges from Abroad
Each family’s parent care challenges are unique – shaped by a parent’s physical, mental and emotional condition and by family dynamics and circumstances. Examples below are common challenges. When a warning flag calls you to parent care action, you might find yourself faced with one of these. For each example of a “challenge”, the “care manager solution” describes how a geriatric care manager can help.
Example
Care Manager Solution
Challenge
A geriatric care manager can gain your parent’s confidence; coordinate a professional assessment of your parent’s overall condition; and make recommendations about what is needed. The results of an assessment, together with the care manager’s recommendations, can be the basis for parent care decision making.
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