What we do:

• Overview
• Family Consultation
• Assessment
• Living Plan
• Implementation
• Advocacy
• Monitoring
• Reevaluation

On Line Risk Assessment

Licensure

Frequent emergency room visits for falls, accidents, or other health events
Reports from police, emergency medical teams, neighbors, or social services about elders
Recent loss of spouse
Depression or suicidal thinking related by elder living alone
Elder behavior issues reported in assisted living facility or nursing home

Single elders are experiencing greater isolation and less stimulation from family, friends, neighbors and social activities
Elders are less able to care for themselves during the activities of daily living; elder is unsafe being left alone
Children experience increasing stress about a parent's health condition
Elders begin experiencing delusions, hallucinations or a distorted sense of reality
Elders or family are frustrated with the care provided or status of an elder's condition at an assisted living facility or nursing home
Elders or family are dissatisfied with the quality of a caregiver or in-home aid's services or attitude to elders
Elders are unhappy with the services being provided by health care professionals or in-home caregivers or believe they are insufficient or inappropriate
Children are increasingly concerned about an elder's physical or mental abilities
Pain is becoming an important issue with an elder's quality of life
Elders or family are concerned about security or accessibility of an elder's living environment.

Elder wants to transition to a retirement community
Discharge arrangements need to be made for an elder from a health care facility
Elder couple wants to live independently at home despite disabilities
Family considering having an elder live with one of the children
Family coming to grips with the grief, dying, and death process
A family caretaker needs to transition responsibility to another party
An elder needs a conservator of the estate or person

Medicare benefits are running out for elder in a health care facility
Elders need help allocating resources to their family and planning to optimize long term care costs and tax burdens
Elders need help with end of life plans, advance directives or living wills
Elders interested in purchasing long term care insurance but don't have knowledge of costs and benefits
Elders and family need a strategy for managing life transitions

Medicare benefits are running out for elder in a health care facility
Elders need help allocating resources to their family and planning to optimize long term care costs and tax burdens
Elders need help with end of life plans, advance directives or living wills
Elders interested in purchasing long term care insurance but don't have knowledge of costs and benefits
Family wants to move elder to their state but need knowledge of local services
Elders and family need a strategy for managing life transitions

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Elder Focus is the GCM Partner for Eldersearch.com in the Monterey Bay Area

Member,
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers