How an Aging Life Care Manager® can help attorneys, financial advisors, trust officers, medical providers, senior living communities, and home care providers
Learning that your client or patient has a new Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis can feel overwhelming, but finding the right help and support for them can make all the difference. Aging Life Care Managers are an excellent source of information and support at a time of uncertainty. As the experts in aging well®, we help navigate the challenges of a dementia diagnosis, helping individuals and their support networks make positive, informed decisions and plans. Our guidance leads people to actions and decisions that ensure quality care and an optimal life for themselves and those they support, thus reducing worry and stress.
Directly working with clients, patients, and families, we help you anticipate, understand, and manage the emotional, mental, financial, and physical demands of caring for someone who is progressively losing the ability to care for themselves.
Aging Well Eldercare can assist you in the following ways:
- Help you understand dementia and normalize associated behaviors
- Educate your clients, patients, and families about local services and resources, including assisted living and memory care communities
- Open lines of dialogue with the client, patient, and family regarding advance directives and goals of care
- Recommend activities that enhance the patient's or client's social support and quality of life
- Find solutions to caregiving challenges
- Ensure appropriate financial and legal needs are identified and met
- Assess, monitor, and update care plans as the dementia progresses
- Oversee and coordinate care, easing the burden on local and distant loved ones
- Provide support and advice on care decisions, including next steps/transfers to different levels of care
- Manage crises, safety concerns, or conflicts in the patient's or client's life
- Provide counseling and caregiver support
- Coordinate and attend medical appointments, as needed
Aging Life Care™ management is a holistic, client-centered approach to planning with, and caring for, aging adults, dependent adults, or others facing ongoing health or disability challenges. We are members of the Aging Life Care Association® (ALCA) and are different from Patient Advocates, Senior Advisors, Senior Navigators, and Elder Advocates, in that we are interdisciplinary, offering guidance in housing, legal and financial matters, crisis intervention, advocacy, and local resources. ALCA members must meet the stringent education, experience, and certification requirements of our association, and all members are required to adhere to a strict Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.