Long term care
Your parents clearly need help. You sense that they cannot live in their own home much longer without outside help. You wonder if you should encourage a move to a senior residential community.
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 develop an understanding of your family’s ability to participate in care. With a thorough understanding of the overall case, the care manager can recommend appropriate care and service scenarios. She can provide referrals and coordinate any services, besides her own, that the parents or children require. Finally, a care manager can monitor parents’ wellbeing and quality of care – where ever they live – and keep you informed.
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