Continuum Senior Care Management, Inc

HOW DOES CARE MANAGEMENT WORK? 

Step 1: Conduct an in-person assessment
The assessment covers a range of issues relevant to your elder's health, and living situation, including everyday activities, nutritional status, safety, memory, depression, finances, insurance, advanced directives, entitlement availability, and more.

Interviews between a Care Manager and the senior can be done with or without family members, but if you have concerns you believe the Care Manager should be aware of, like memory problems, be sure to talk to the caregiver separately. It is important that the Care Manager have all the information necessary to do the best job possible.

Step 2: Make a Care Plan
A Care Plan includes the results of the assessment, recommendations, and referrals for local care options. The Care Manager will go into great depth in explaining some of the details of the plan, what led to the recommendations, what you can expect, and prioritize the needs list.

Some things may be immediate and mandatory like monitoring medications that are not being taken properly. Other things like personal hygiene issues and diet are important to health and well being, and therefore need to be monitored closely but are seldom emergency issues. A senior's ability to afford a service is always considered.

Other things such as comfort issues are a bit further down the list, and are things that are not important to life or health, but would make life a bit more pleasant. From this list, you and the Care Manager have to determine what can or cannot be handled, and how that will be done.

A Care Plan may also include regular reassessments. As we age, so do our capabilities and functions. Care Plans need to be altered as time goes on.

Continuum Care Management finds out what you can do and have the ability yourself, and what can be done by other family members. We then match this to the priority lists and economic abilities, and recommend good quality services that are in the price range of our clients.

Step 3: Monitor Needs
Don't leave the Care Manager out of the ongoing process of needs assessment. Your first meeting establishes a baseline and follow up assessments will be compared to that initial assessment to determine what, if anything, needs to change.

Care Managers are not in the home on a weekly basis, except under severe circumstances, so it really isn't all that expensive. As professionals, we can spot issues before they become problems and we get them resolved.

Care Managers are uniquely connected to the community. It's not like hiring your sister. Our Care Managers have experience, know the right people, and know how to get things done. In many cases, we can save you more than we cost you by making the appropriate connections by knowing who we are hiring.

For the Sandwich Generation:
Even if you are local to your parents, Continuum Care Managers can help by relieving the stresses of care giving. We coordinate between providers of service and are, in many ways, like a General Contractor. Service personnel and companies can be responsible for responding to us, not you. We can make appointments and accompany clients to physicians, labs, barber or beauty parlor, grocery shopping, etc.

From A Distance:
If you live a distance from your parents, we are even more beneficial to you. Getting in touch with local service providers and monitoring their quality of service is difficult, if not impossible, from 1000 miles away. Our Care Managers are ADVOCATES.

Private Conservatorship:
Available form Continuum only as a last resort for the safety of a senior who has no alternatives