How Can an Elderly Care Manager Help?
Peaceful Living offers you customized services to fit your specific needs.

• Conduct care planning assessments to identify problems and recommend
  solutions.
  
  
• Screen, arrange for, and monitor in-home help or other services.
  
  
• Review financial, legal or medical issues and offer referrals to geriatric
  specialist to avoid future problems while preserving financial resources.
  
  
• Provide crisis intervention.
  
  
• Act as liaison to families at a distance, overseeing care and quickly alerting
  families to problems.
  
  
• Assist with moving an older person to or from a retirement complex, assisted
  care home, or nursing home.
  
  
• Provide consumer education and advocacy
  
  
• Offer counseling and support
  
  

• Short-term or ongoing assistance for long-distance caregivers or others requiring assistance.
  
  
• Personalized and compassionate services focusing on the individual's wants and needs.
  
  
• Accessibility: Care is usually available 24 hours a day, 7 days/week.
  
  
• Continuity of care management by facilitating family communication, reducing the burden of families and preventing unnecessary expenditures.
  
  
• Efficiency and flexibility based upon a client-centered approach, eliminating bureaucratic constraints.
  
  
• Cost containment by avoiding inappropriate placements, duplication of services and crisis intervention to avoid hospitalizations.
  
  
• Quality control using care management services that follow GCM's Standards of Practice.

What is An Elderly Care Manager?         
An elderly care manager (also called a Geriatric Care Manager, or PGCM) is a professional, such as a social worker or counselor, nurse or gerontologist, who specializes in assisting older people and their families to attain the highest quality
of life given their circumstances.

Individuals and businesses use Elderly Care Managers:

• Families
  
  
• Banks and Trust Officers
  
  
• Physicians and Allied Health Professionals
  
  
• Attorneys
  
  
• Hospitals
  
  
• Social Services Providers
  
  
• Gerontology Professionals
  
  
• Individuals
  
  
• Senior Housing Communities
  
  
• Professional Fiduciaries