Life Care Management Pittsburgh

What is Life Care Management Pittsburgh?

Our Licensed Certified Life Care Managers are experts in navigating and supporting aging related issues and family concerns.
Aging Life Care Management is a holistic, client-centered approach to caring for adults facing ongoing health challenges.

Life Care Managers help your family and loved elders navigate the healthcare maze. Working closely with families, the professional, licensed experts of Holistic Aging LLC provide answers at a time of uncertainty. Their guidance leads families to actions and decisions that ensure quality care and an optimal life for their loved ones thus reducing worry, stress, and time off of work for family caregivers.

Although Life Care Management Pittsburgh is private pay, our expertise in guiding you and your family through the healthcare maze will actually save you money. As Baby Boomers move into their golden years, their adult-aged children are feeling the financial and emotional strain of caring for them, according to the Care.com 2019 Cost of Senior Care survey.

The first annual survey, compiled with insights from more than 7,500 family caregivers nationwide, showed how family members are handling the costs and stresses that come along with this critical, yet costly and challenging, role.

Read about the costs of senior care survey

Ten Important Questions About Advance Health Care Directives

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April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day. Have you created health care directives? If you haven’t, or you aren’t sure your documents are up to date, here some questions you might have. #1: Why should people express their wishes about health care? Isn’t that for their doctor to decide? Today’s health care technologies are pretty…

Do you have concerns like these?

My loved one in not safe living in their home alone.
The doctor/nurse/caregiver/etc. told me my parent can no longer live at home.
I don’t understand all the options and costs of all the alternative living arrangements.
The health care system is overwhelming to navigate.
My loved one gets worse with each hospital stay.
My loved one has memory problems and I need help.
I live a good distance away from my parents and need someone to oversee their care.
My family is having a difficult time agreeing on the best treatment for our parent.
We need an expert’s assistance to guide us.
I want the QUALITY of my parent’s life to improve.
Should my wife be driving?
My father is not taking his pills.
My mother’s forgetfulness is concerning.
I have three children, a full time job, and live 100 miles away; I just can’t do it all anymore!

RN Disease Management:

With a registered nurse (RN) assigned to every case, we effectively bring older adults life and “disease” back into balance.

Appropriate Living Environment:

We are educated experts on the housing options in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.

Owing to 30 years of experience, we know what facilities provide quality care, will customize our recommendations to the client’s specific needs and financial budget, and oversee that the care provided continues to serve our client well. Our ethical standards prevent us from receiving any financial incentive from any facility. Therefore, you can rest assured our recommendations are specific to each individual’s needs, taking the entire picture into account.

Advocate at Doctor appointments:

The Life Care Manager plays an important role with all the providers (doctors, physical therapists, dentists, etc.) of medical care for the client.

Life Care Managers act as the central point of contact. As a result, unity of all services and treatments is assured. Furthermore, with this unity in place, Life Care Managers have the tools to ensure client preferences are clearly outlined and maintained in all aspects of care. We usually accompany our clients to all their doctor appointments acting as the clinical liaison. In this case, we are the navigators through emergency departments and hospitalizations, rehabilitation stays, and ensuring our clients receive the best care available.

Memory Disorder:

Care for a spouse or parent with Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease or one of the many memory disorders is a difficult task and, at times, an overwhelming one.

Financial and Legal:

Services may include reviewing or overseeing bill paying or consulting with a client’s accountant or Financial POA to maximize the use of their budget.

Our Life Care Managers work with Elder Law Attorneys to assure all the legal needs of our aging clients are executed such as Power of Attorney documents. We also frequently work as a team member for those requiring medical over site with a trust fund. Generally, clients and families have questions regarding health and long-term insurance which we have the expertise to assist in understanding claims, maximizing insurance benefits, and assuring the healthcare policy you choose is in your best interest.

Local Resource:

We have expert knowledge of all the services available in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.

Ultimately, this knowledge helps ensure clients can tap into any and all entitlement programs that they qualify for. In short, this assists in maintaining quality care. Veteran Benefits, Low income aging benefits, transportation, or financial assistance with home remodeling all fall into this category. Correspondingly, we know how to access these benefits and ensure you obtain what you are entitled to.

Medication Management:

The RN Life Care Manager determines the best customized individual methodology to assure the client takes their medication.

They also review each individual medication prescribed and assure it is necessary to improve the life of the older adult. Polypharmacy refers to the effects of taking multiple medications concurrently to manage coexisting health problems. Too often during our initial assessments, we see clients prescribed too many medications by multiple healthcare providers. They work independently of each other and don’t usually consider the interactions between the drugs. We become the provider that knows the patient’s complete medication picture and assure they do not have adverse drug reactions.

Family Dynamics:

More often than not, one family member will bear the brunt of caring for their parent.

Usually, that individual will struggle to get other family members on board with seeking outside help. Life Care Managers use their skills to get past family dynamics such as these that prevent a care giver and their loved ones from living quality lives. We value the input of all those seeking to be involved with the care of a loved one. We do are best to ensure all opinions are respected. Often, the act of hiring an expert for advice can be the solution in and of itself.

Holistic Care Management:

We offer a unique service you will not find with any other care management company.

Holistic means that things should be studied as a whole and not just as a sum of their parts. Therefore, we are not just looking at medications, tests, and treatment of disease but considering other issues, which could be the root cause.

Typically, Conventional Medicine focuses solely on the physical health – looking at the illnesses and cures.

At Holistic Aging we strongly believe that the body should not be looked as individual parts. Instead our holistic approach looks at how the many parts and systems of the body interact and support one another.

Our care focuses on healing, as well as attention to all aspects of the individual, including their physical, emotional, cultural, mental, social, and spiritual needs. As a result, we frequently find the “disease” subsides when we address the underlying cause of the symptom.