Learning to cope with Dementia, maintaining a loved one’s dignity as they become more dependent… most of us are not equipped to navigate these issues. Moreover, uninformed (even though well-intentioned) legal, financial and medical decisions can have negative and long-lasting impact. We help family members ensure the best care for their loved ones by: Eliminating confusion around medical, legal, and financial options Preventing a crisis and unnecessary hospitalizations Reducing miscommunications among family members, with the loved one, and with other professionals Creating a comprehensive life care plan that anticipates and addresses problems Acting as a liaison to families at a distance,…
The number of seniors having dementia is increasing dramatically. However, a majority remain un-diagnosed. Therefore, non-recognition leads to untreated dementia, causing functional failing, difficulties with health and wellbeing issues, and protection dangers. Furthermore, undetected dementia results in lack of assistance for seniors and the care providers. Additionally, overwhelmed family care providers, generally the spouse, are struggling with decreased abilities of their own. Usually, they are not prepared to act. Furthermore, the principal household caregivers often build up their psychological distress conditions. Consequently, un-met care requirements have a deep impact around the older person, family members and also the caregiver. Typically,…
The physical and emotional drain of caring for an aging family member is enormous. Coping you’re your loved ones Dementia, and maintaining there dignity and quality of life as they become more dependent… are unchartered waters for most of us. Additionally, ill-informed legal, financial and medical decisions can have negative and long-lasting impact on your loved ones well-being.. However, our trained and professional coaches (Care Managers) can help you ensure the best care for your loved ones by: • Removing confusion around medical, legal, and financial decisions; • Preventing a crisis; • Eliminating miscommunications among family members • Preparing a…
However, a person's age is not a justification for removing there keys. Seniors in their 80s and 90s can drive safely, while others in their 50s and 60s are dangers to themselves and others. However, seniors get the blame for bad driving. The most driving-accident-prone age group is 15 through 19. Your parents losing their independence, by removing the car, can be devastating to them. However, if physical and mental condition impare their ability to drive, you have to act for their and others safety. Here are some indicators: Vision: Your parent's optometrist or ophthalmologist can identify vision problems, limitations, concerns…
Dementia and Alzheimer’s can prove to be huge challenges for the healthcare institutions we trust to care for our affected loved ones. Unfortunately, these are challenges many institutions meet with the over-use, abuse or improper use of drugs. The good news is that this problematic trend is being identified and resolved for many families. As recently reported by the Associated Press, the turn to drugs for nursing home patients with dementia is nothing new. Dementia has a nasty tendency to disorient patients who may grow paranoid or lash out as a result. The safest way to protect them and others…
By dedicating some time early on in the diagnosis and fighting for the cause during World Alzheimer’s Month and beyond, a family can know they have done everything to support their loved one to live a full life and protect their legacy. You may not have known but September is World Alzheimer’s Month. As the month comes to a close, it’s important not to forget about Alzheimer’s. Medical research and advocacy are vital causes to uphold. Nevertheless, it is a disease that you and your loved ones might have to face directly, if you have not already. The reality of…
Here’s what’s important: it doesn’t matter if you have a diagnosis for your aging parent or not. It matters how your aging parent functions. It matters how you deal with what you see.
Hospice care can provide a great benefit to many families and their dying loved ones, and Medicare has been generally praised for its support through reimbursements to providers over the past 28 years. However, according to a recent article by Kaiser Health News and The New York Times, there is growing concern now about misuse of the program by for-profit hospice providers. Hospice care is intended to provide dying patients with palliative care in their own homes, or in a hospice facility or nursing home. But, as hospice has moved into the mainstream, concerns about excessive costs and misuse have…
If you have an elderly loved one living in a nursing home, especially if they suffer from dementia, you may want to double-check their prescription medications. A recent government audit on Medicare spending shows some rather alarming practices in regard to the use of powerful atypical antipsychotic drugs. As The New York Times reports, nearly 1 in 7 nursing home patients, nearly all of them with dementia, are given powerful antipsychotic drugs even though the drugs are not approved for such use and are known to increase the risk of death, especially in patients with dementia. Ostensibly, the purpose of…
You may need Senior Life Care Planning for: Asset Protection Mediciad Planning Veterans Benefits Care Advocacy Limited or no family support. What services are available? Safely issues. Caregiver “burned out” or overwhelmed about care. Limited time and/or expertise. Family Arguments. Financial and/or legal issues. Dealing and/or Coping with dementia.
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