The Value of Life Care Management

You need help caring for your parent. As you are researching, you see information about facilities, hospitalizations, states of decline, the benefits of a parent living at home, caregiver services, and more. With every new discovery, you are more overwhelmed about the situation.

At some point, you come across the concept of Life Care Management. It sounds great but can you really trust what the experts are saying about their own services? If not the ones providing the services, how about the people like you that researched and utilized life care management themselves?

Good news! Earlier this year, the ALCA Florida Chapter published research regarding the effectiveness of Life Care Managers from the perspective of the responsible parties, like you, that seek this help. What pieces of Life Care Management are valuable for clients and their families? The results are not a surprise.

About the ALCA:

The Aging Life Care Association, or ALCA, is a non-profit organization dedicated to caring for older adults with holistic and client center approach. This organization has many chapters with dedicated members that are educated in providing the best service, maintaining and creating the best care and opportunities for the aging adult. These individuals follow strict guidelines and standards to the benefit and comfort of all their clients.

About this Study:

We all know that sometimes things can sound too good to be true. When if comes to researching the best options for your loved ones as they grow old this is especially true. You want to make sure your aging love one gets the proper care and support so they can live a life that is fulfilling for whatever time they have. This is hard to do when trying to manage your own life. Where do you go to find the best answers? Many of us look to our peers that have shared our experience and found the answer.

The ALCA’s Florida chapter realized the vast importance of this insight for their clients and decide to take note. Back around 2014 they started to put together a research project focusing on their clients’ experiences with Life Care Management. Not only would this research help them to strengthen their service but also to help inform potential clients of the benefits they will find within this service. Earlier this year they complete their research and have provide the results for anyone who needs them to see!

Who Participated?

During this project the ACLA reach out to their own Life Care Managers to talk to current clients and responsible parties. They asked them to complete an anonymous survey. 82% of the respondents where family members of the clients. The rest were varying guardians and officers.

What did they find?

“97% of Responsible Party respondents felt that engaging an Aging Life Care Manager had a positive overall effect on the client.”
“99% [of Responsible Party respondents] said that engaging Aging Life Care Manager Services had a positive effect on their own lives.“
“Most respondents reported they engaged the professional because:
Family did not live near the client so that they needed a local contact for care
- concerned about changes in the client’s status
- client was experiencing a crisis at the time the professional services were sought
- seeking a professional assessment to explore options for the client’s care”
“Most Common Services Performed by Life Care Managers
- Assessing, monitoring and updating responsible party on client’s needs
- Managing crises, safety concerns or conflicts in the client’s life
- Advocating and coordinating for the client’s medical concerns
- Providing support and services that preserve the client’s independence
- Offering activities that enhance the client’s social support and quality of life
- Providing impaired memory support and services”

For more information about this study’s findings, click here!

All the above quotes and statistics were taken from the above link to the ALCA Florida Chapter’s Research results.

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Lori Wynn

17:57 10 Jan 21

As a physical therapist over the last year, I have worked with some of the clients of Holistic Aging. The clients are... accompanied by the excellent caregivers of Holistic Aging to their appointments. I have spent a good amount of time witnessing the way that these caregivers attend to their clients. The clients are treated by the staff like they are family. The details of their lives are well known and their well-being is top priority. On numerous occasions, I have needed to communicate with the staff, and this is always seamless. If I had family in need of elder care, I would be eager to have one of these exceptionally caring staff of Holistic Aging be a part of the team.read more

Julie Densmore

19:52 10 Aug 20

The Best Medical Investment and Care Decision Our Family Has MadeI highly recommend Holistic Aging for their Life Care... Manager support of an aging loved one who may be living in the Pittsburgh area. Bobbi and her team of qualified individuals are compassionate and trained in geriatric care management. They have provided unsurpassed medical and general support for my 85 year old mother-in-law (MIL) over the past 2 years while we are living on the West Coast. Their services provide us with peace-of-mind and confidence that our loved one is safe and cared for even when we cannot be present. Their expert care has enabled my MIL to live comfortably alone in her home. They have helped to systematically address and resolve my MILs growing medical issues and ensure that her most pressing challenges are adequately managed. Our life care manager, Kristi - who is a RN - accompanies my MIL to all doctor appointments to ask the right questions during the visit. Kristi maintains a comprehensive picture of my MIL's health conditions and acts as her personal advocate at all doctor visits. We chose Holistic Aging for their fusion of both East and Western treatment modalities that are tailored to the unique individual so along with medical care, my MIL has received acupuncture, nutritional supplements, massage, and myofacial release therapies - all considered to be "alternative" to treatments and normally would not have been offered. However, each of these treatments have majorly improved my MIL's well-being so we welcome the East/West treatment fusion that Holistic Aging provides. We are incredibly grateful and impressed with the service that Holistic Aging provides for our family. I highly recommend them for care of a loved one. Thank you Bobbi and Kristi!read more

Carina Didiano

01:49 20 Aug 18

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate Renee’s work as a nurse with her clients, who are in their early 90’s. I... have worked with her for a while now and she has such a good heart, especially when it comes to her clients well being. She always goes above and beyond for all of them! She deserves the recognition.read more

Dianna Long

01:25 30 Jan 18

Personally sought advice and counsel from the owner - very helpful and knowledgeable about reimbursement and geriatric... aging. Owner keeps up to date on all related geriatric trends and medication trends. True desire to change and help the lives of those aging - to improve the quality of life and ensure maximum reimbursement.read more

Morgan Grimes

20:33 07 Nov 17

Not only does this agency provide excellent care for their cliental, they are a wonderful agency to work for. The... office staff is compassionate and caring not only about their work but their employees as well. The entire staff has very open communication that makes the care individualized and highly affective.read more

Holistic Aging Client

18:23 05 Sep 17

It is difficult to put into words how much Susan’s work with Holistic Aging has meant to our family. After my father... passed away, he left behind our widowed mother, physically weak, depressed and living at some distance from family. She was vulnerable in so many ways, needing help with things including medical and nursing care, physical therapy, transportation, financial protection, troubleshooting and coordinating a complex array of services. We found that we just couldn’t manage everything from a distance, and that what we needed more than anything else was someone acting as Mom’s advocate and coordinating her access to needed supports. Susan stepped in and really took charge of the situation, keeping tabs on everything happening on the medical front, not only making sure that key appointments were made and kept, but also accompanying Mom to them and maintaining organized health reports. Susan ensured that no one was taking financial advantage, that in-home caregivers were providing adequate support, and even that home maintenance problems were addressed. She really made an effort to understand our mother and her unique needs. Susan was willing to play bad cop as necessary, dismissing caregivers who weren’t up to the job, arranging for better ones to be put in place, making sure that physical therapy proceeded on schedule, and pushing back on advice from any service sellers that didn’t serve our mother’s interests. Because Susan was so organized, committed, and pro-active, we are in a much improved situation now: Mom’s health, mental outlook and physical conditioning are all better than they were a couple of years ago. Having Susan there was the closest thing we could manage to actually having a family member on-site to look after our mother.read more

Rebekah Simpson

13:12 19 Oct 16

Bobbi and her team of care manager's have been a "God Send" to our family. My mother has Alzheimer's disease and with... family all over the country, we were not able to assist mom with the needed care she required to continue to live a meaningful life. A friend of ours had used Options For Elder Care services and highly recommend them. They know everything there is to know about Alzheimer's, not only improving my mom's life but realizing the stress of our entire family. We will continue to have challenges as mom progresses through Alzheimer's but feel confident being directed by this care management company.read more

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