What is elder care or geriatric care management?
Elder care management often consists of a network of public and private agencies that work together to assist senior citizens in living as independently as possible. Seniors today often lack the extended family that might pitch in to help with grocery shopping, driving, and in-home care. Often, an elderly person’s children live too far away to help with daily tasks or are too busy with work and their own families to devote the time a senior parent may desperately need.
Elder care management can fill the gap that changes in society and family have created. A team might have an elder law component that can assist in drawing up a last will and testament, a living will, or a power of attorney document. The management team may include a realty service that can help a senior downsize into a smaller home, arranging to have the existing home appraised and follow through with selling it. Another member of an elder care team might be a drop-in caregiver or home nursing service for elderly patients who need regular medical monitoring. There could also be a service that keeps track of the individual’s taxes and monthly bills and makes sure they are kept current.
An elder care management team should meet the needs of each client in order to make their lives as independent, safe, and care-free as possible so that seniors can turn their attention to enjoying their retirement years.
A fancy name for what used to be called geriatrics – care for the elderly. As the baby boomer generation gets older we are witnessing the onslaught of a mirage of "services" geared toward the elderly. These services can be as simple as health monitoring and basic preventative medicine to the latest barrage of anti-aging, live longer, reverse aging schemes which includes everything from vitamin enhancement to multi-thousand dollar "medically based customized gene therapy treaments" that use wonder drugs such as HgH, stem cells etc. Geriatrics is a true medical field, but be cautioned, a lot of these ‘elder care management’ offices popping up touting services and methodologies that are unproven for quite a lofty price: Pure and simple they are out to bilk the elderly with lures of ‘eternal health’, ‘disease elimination’ and effects or aging reversal. Some of the products do rpoduce minimal results, but treatment is perpetual.
