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Happy New Year! January 2010 |
Happy New Year! ElderCare at Home brings you this newsletter in the spirit of cooperation and education. We hope you find this information useful and informative. Please give us a call or email us if there is anything we can do for you.
Sincerely,
ElderCare at Home & ElderCare Resource Center
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| For Professionals: Understanding Our Model of Care |
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 When making an appropriate referral for a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other dementia, it is important to recognize that there are varying types of care, payment options and services available.
An appropriate referral is also dependent upon understanding the different needs of each patient and family including their financial ability, acuity of needs, formal and informal support, to name but a few. Read more here!
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For Clients: Choosing the Best Agency
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 When choosing an agency to help you care for someone suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other memory impairment, it is important to choose an agency that has a proven track record of success.
For ten years, we have provided hundreds of families with exceptional geriatric care management and Alzheimer's/dementia specific home care services. Our Integrated ElderCare ModelT (IEC) has proven to be the most successful model for keeping patient's in the place they most want to be... their own home. Read more here!
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| Paying for Alzheimer's Care at Home |
 During these tough economic times, paying for Alzheimer's care is getting more and more difficult. The financial impact of this disease can be devastating on families. Now more than ever we encourage you to explore all of the options available when looking at the various ways to pay for care.
The Care Managers at ElderCare at Home can help you learn about benefits available through long term care insurance to community based services to Veteran's benefits to Medicaid planning.
Call us today to schedule a confidential consultation at 800-209-4342
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| When the Decision is to Stay at Home |
 Not surprisingly, as many as 97% of people over 60 express a preference for remaining at home. People often choose home care over institutional care and hope to delay or prevent the option of a move to an institutional setting.
Home care allows seniors to remain in their own home and retain their dignity in familiar and comfortable surroundings.
Although family caregiving is usually the first line of support, many people assist their senior parents with high levels of personal care over extremely long periods of time. This may create strained familial relationships or what is called "caregiver burnout". Adult children often feel guilty about the safety or security of their loved one when they cannot be available "around the clock" - or they may become angry that the demands of caregiving seem to come into conflict with careers and caring for their own family. Often, the family caregiver may live far away.
Home care offers a wide range of health and social services for the elderly, including those recovering from surgery or injury, those with disabilities and chronic conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, or those with terminal illness. Services range in scope and can be tailored to your needs.
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This past month there were two very interesting clinical research articles about dementia published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
This month's column will summarize those articles and
discuss their implications. Read the complete article
here!
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| Caregiver Spotlight Marie F. Pierre, CNA |
Marie F. Pierre is a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA); she has been providing care to seniors since 1983. She is entering her 7th year with ElderCare at Home.
We asked Marie "Why did you choose ElderCare at Home?" Marie stated, "Because the office staff are nice and are like family to me. And I receive continuous work with a higher fee rate then most agencies offer."
We asked our clients "Are you satisfied with services that Marie is providing?" The majority all agreed that, "Marie is wonderful, caring and is very knowledge about the needs of seniors, we are very lucky to have her."
Marie describes herself as "a people person and loves working with seniors." She feels that caring is part of the job and that all caregivers should do whatever it takes to improve the quality of life for their clients.
ElderCare at Home is very proud to work with Marie on a day to day basis. She puts the "C" in Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)!
Thank you Marie, for all your hard work and dedication to your clients and our mission.
If you know a caregiver that you feel we should Spotlight in next month's issue, please email eldercareathome@msn.com . Spotlighted Caregivers can be paid caregivers or family caregivers!
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ElderCare at Home is South Florida's premier provider of Alzheimer's/dementia specific geriatric care management and at-home assisted living services for patients and families suffering from Alzheimer's disease, dementia or other memory impairments. We provide all levels of in-home nursing as well as homemaker and companion care. All services are fully integrated, coordinated, and monitored by one of our professional geriatric care managers ~ at no charge to our clients! ElderCare at Home serves as an advocate for our clients and a surrogate for their family members.
Please visit our web sites at www.ElderCareatHome.org or www.ElderCareResourceCenter.com
You can call us at 800-209-4342 or email us at ElderCareatHome@msn.com
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From the decision to be a caregiver to dealing with day-to-day activities, this guide provides help with every aspect of home care.
Also included in this edition are a checklist of tasks, a chapter on self-care and avoiding caregiver burnout, a glossary, and list of helpful resources. For more information or to purchase, click here!
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