- Consult on the phone or in person about areas of concern. Provide appropriate resources to address the problems.
- Recommend retirement communities, assisted living homes and nursing facilities.
- Arrange and monitor home care and health care professionals.
- Assist with transitions from hospital back home.
- Suggest home modifications to enable seniors to "age in place" safely.
- Provide education for managing Alzheimer's behavior and memory loss.
- Provide medication oversight.
- Visit to evaluate the current living situation. Evaluation may include a review of the health, functional abilities, mental abilities, medications, and financial and legal areas of the elder's life.
- Create a written guide (plan of care). This document provides solutions to concerns expressed by family and the senior, and as identified in our LIFE assessment.
- Facilitate a family meeting to air concerns and discuss options.
- Be the local contact for long distance caregivers.
- Arrange for relocation from the family home to a care setting.
- Refer to adult day centers and activity programs to increase brain health and socialization.
- Escort to appointments.
- Mediate disagreements between families and care facilities.
- Act as liaison and advocate between the medical community and the elder.
- Review and guide completion of legal and financial documents.
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