If you are a family member caring for an elderly loved one, you may be considering consulting with a professional care manager.  Not sure if you should?  You may want to read more about "When You Might Need a Geriatric Care Management Assessment" to learn about some of the situations in which care management service prove useful.

As we celebrate National Geriatric Care Manager month, we help families explore the topic of geriatric care management and various options for senior care.  From understanding what a care manager does to identifying situations where one can help, we want to give you resources to help in your caregiving process.

Aging Wisely is celebrating National Care Managers Month with an educational series on care management and helping elder caregivers.

We were recently interviewed on a radio show about the topic of aging parents.  The host, like many adult children we hear from, wanted to educate himself (and his audience) on considerations in thinking ahead to a time when his parents may need assistance. 

What is a patient advocate?

You're worried about Mom or Dad and someone suggests you get in touch with a geriatric care manager.  You get a recommendation for a geriatric care manager in the area, or you select some care managers from an internet search.  What next?

We previously shared some of the Challenges of Senior Care Coordination, along with some take away lessons family caregivers can learn from our professional experience as patient advocates.

Older adults with multiple chronic health conditions have an average of 37 doctor visits, 14 different doctors and 50 separate prescriptions each year.  (Read more statistics and this citation: Chronic Illness: The Cost to Society fact sheet.)

Suddenly find yourself in the role of caregiver for an aging parent?

We continue to get a lot of questions about Sundowners Syndrome (also known as sundowning behavior in dementia).  The terms can be confusing, but it is important to understand that sundowners is not a diagnosis or condition on its own, but merely a description of behaviors that often accompany various forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and others.