September 28, 2021

What Adult Children Caregivers Do
Experience Breeds Knowledge
Overwhelming and Costly
- 1. Mom and/or dad move into your home. Your relationship with your spouse and children changes. You don’t have time for them anymore. Nothing prepares you for the stress.
- 2. Your siblings are in denial or don’t agree with your care decisions. This results in endless arguments and the bulk of the caregiving burden falling on you.
- 3. Friends and family eventually disappear as the disease progresses and caregiving consumes more of your time. Your ability to get away for lunch with friends or enjoy a movie or shop is non-existent.
- 4.Your health suffers. You used to go to the gym, but that falls off the priority list. You aren’t eating as healthfully as you used to. You realize that you are depressed, but you don’t want to admit it. You soldier on. This eventually translates into chronic health conditions of your own.
- 5. You leave the workforce, unable to balance complex caregiving and a career. This has financial implications that last for years: dwindling bank accounts, disappearing retirement accounts, and decreased Social Security benefits.
What Senior Alternatives Can Do To Help
Highly educated and trained care managers can help you manage and relive some duties as primary caregiver. Some of the services provided include medical advocacy, review of placement options, navigating complex family dynamics, and management of client and caregiver stress. We offer a unique home care model where our caregivers are trained and supervised by our master’s level Care Managers. Unlike most agencies, all of our Care Managers are social workers, nurses or gerontologists. Additionally, our caregivers are thoroughly screened and registered with the California State Registry. This combination of masters-level care management expertise and high-quality caregivers results in the highest possible home care and better outcome. Our caregivers provide personal care, respite care for families, transportation to appointments and other situations identified in the individualized care plan developed by the Care Manager.
Our interdisciplinary Geriatric Care Management team is well versed in many areas and has years of experience working with those living with memory related disorders, including Alzheimer’s. Senior Alternatives also cares for those with mental health and chronic medical challenges. Since all of our Care Managers are masters-level, we have been able to take on even the most challenging cases.
Our commitment to excellence has always been our gold star standard. We care for people wherever they call home and if we are not the right fit at the right time, we will help find someone who is!
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