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An RN Senior Care Manager, is a holistic, client-centered approach to caring for older adults or others facing ongoing health challenges. Working with families, the expertise of the RN Senior Care Manager provides the answers at a time of uncertainty. Their guidance leads families to the actions and decisions that ensure quality care and an optimal life for those they love, thus reducing worry, stress and time off of work for family caregivers. Visit us at aginglifecare.org for qualified, experienced professionals.

How does an Aging Life Care Professional® benefit you?

• Able to absorb the non-legal care management issues that slow you down

• Coordinate and refer to specialists as indicated for competency assessment

• Facilitates preservation of family assets by ensuring client remains in most appropriate quality care setting for as long as possible

• Consistent referral source of clients who need the professional support and guidance of an Elder Law Attorney

How does an Aging Life Care Professional® benefit your clients?

• Provides personal compassionate service— focusing on the individual’s wants and needs while maintaining professional oversight of care

• Facilitates seniors living independently and staying in their homes as long as possible

• Screens, arranges, and monitors in-home care and other services requested and needed by client or families to meet needs

• Provides resources and options for seniors, clients, and families regarding care decisions including next steps/transfers to different levels of care

• Assists both local and distant family members to facilitate quality & coordinated care for a loved one

• Provides crisis intervention, counseling, caregiver support, and education to clients and families regarding eldercare

For more information contact us at 812-585-4125 or www.agelesstransitions.com

Health Care ProvidesTrust Officers should use an RN Senior Care Manager when looking for excellence in comprehensive services for aging or disabled adults and their families.

How does an Aging Life Care Professional® benefit you?

• Delivers expert knowledge of all areas impacting the senior or person with disabilities from medical issues, health care systems, in home care to behind the scenes knowledge of the various care communities

• Promotes client’s independence and quality of life while focusing on appropriate level of care for the individual and advocating for the client at all care levels

• Assists long distance trust officer in managing care for clients

• Helps preserve assets by ensuring client remains in most appropriate care setting for as long as possible

• Takes on medical and direct support tasks freeing the trust officer to focus on financial management

• Protects the fiduciary by ensuring the money spent is done so for the benefit of the recipient

How does an RN Senior Care Manager benefit your clients?

• Provides personal compassionate service— focusing on the individual’s values and needs while maintaining professional oversight of care

• Arranges for and monitors in-home health care and other services requested by client to meet care needs

• Provides resources and options for clients and families regarding care decisions including next steps/transfers to different levels of care

• Assists family members who live out of the area to facilitate long-distance caring for a loved one

For more information contact us at 812-585-4125 or www.agelesstransitions.com

Aging Life Care™, also known as geriatric care management, is a holistic, client-centered approach to caring for older adults or others facing ongoing health challenges. Working with families, the expertise of Aging Life Care Professionals provides the answers at a time of uncertainty. Their guidance leads families to the actions and decisions that ensure quality care and an optimal life for those they love, thus reducing worry, stress, and time off of work for family caregivers.

Why Health Care Providers Should Collaborate with an RN Care Manager

When looking for excellence in comprehensive services for aging or disabled adults and their families how does an RN Care Manager benefit your patients? The most common services performed are:

• Assessing, monitoring, and updating responsible party on patient's needs

• Managing crises, safety concerns, or conflicts in the patient's life

• Coordinating and advocating for the patient's medical concerns

• Providing support and services that preserve the patient's independence

• Providing mental health referrals, counseling, and emotional support for the patient

• Offering activities that enhance the patient's social support and quality of life

• Providing impaired memory support and services

• Completing paperwork associated with the patient's insurance, benefits, or finances

How does working with an RN Care Manager benefit you?

• Limits non billable time spent on patient coordination of care

• Saves you and your staff time answering phone calls from families about non-medical issues or repeatedly explaining diagnoses and tests

• Gives you peace of mind – orders are followed up on, medications are taken as prescribed, or you are notified

• Allows you to make more effective and efficient decisions - you have a set of professional eyes and ears in the home who can succinctly inform you of the important data and professionally receive your response

For more information contact us at 812-585-4125 or www.agelesstransitions.com

Why Case Managers should use an RN Care Manager

When looking for excellence in comprehensive services for aging or disabled adults and their families, what are the benefits of working with an RN Senior Care Manager?

• Help manage family expectations, long distance family members, and family dynamics that may complicate the overall care planning process

• Provide additional support and services to streamline care managers’ work and time devoted to a patient

• Coordinate care assistance to help ensure a timely discharge (i.e. arranging transportation home and setting up caregivers at home)

• Provide knowledge and make recommendations for patients and families regarding communities, resources and services that may be needed upon discharge

• Contribute additional support and services to reduce incidences of delirium

• Manage Guardianship issues by managing the process

• Provide a thorough history of patient and related history and dynamics

• May help keep Length of Stay on target/avoid delayed admissions and readmissions due to care coordination assistance

How does your client benefit from collaborating with an RN Senior Care Manager

• May help reduce repeated and unnecessary hospital admissions

• Help the transition to the home or required facility be as smooth as possible

• Reconcile patient’s previous medication regimen with the medication list given at discharge and maintain an updated list of medicines and of the patient’s doctors

• Ensure the client has a follow-up appointment with the appropriate physician within 7-10 days after discharge and that the patient gets to the appointment

• Build relationships with the patient and family to provide future help with the patient's history and family dynamics

• Open lines of dialogue with the patient and family members regarding advance directives and a client’s wishes regarding healthcare and aging

• Provide preventative care management to catch problems before they become acute and require a hospital visit. All of these benefits help reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions

For more information contact us at 812-585-4125 or www.agelesstransitions.com

Why Home Care Agencies Should Collaborate with an RN Senior Care Manager when looking for excellence in comprehensive services for aging or disabled adults and their families.

An RN Care Manager, is a holistic, client-centered approach to caring for older adults or others facing ongoing health challenges. Working with families, the expertise of Aging Life Care Professionals provides the answers at a time of uncertainty. Their guidance leads families to the actions and decisions that ensure quality care and an optimal life for those they love, thus reducing worry, stress, and time off of work for family caregivers.

What are the benefits of working with an RN Senior Care Manager?

• Provides an unbiased or outside assessment of how much and the type of support needed at home

• Helps streamline communication by serving as a communication hub for all involved parties

• Serves as a local contact for the client if a family is out of town

• Provides additional support and encouragement to the caregivers

• Ensures that Home Care Agencies have all necessary and relevant information to best meet the client’s needs at home

• Helps clients accept and adjust to help in the home

• Solves issues in the home as they arise

• Attends medical appointments with clients, relieving home care agencies of this responsibility

• Manages challenging client/family dynamics so that Home Care Agencies can focus on providing quality care to the client

• Connects clients with other professionals as needed, such as attorneys or fiduciaries

• Builds ongoing, collaborative relationships with Home Care Agencies so that they can serve as reciprocal referral sources

For more information contact us at 812-585-4125 or www.agelesstransitions.com