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Who Should Take This Program?
Health and human services professionals including
-registered nurses
-social workers
-occupational therapists
-physical therapists
-rehabilitation counselors
-case managers
-psychologists
-medical doctors
What are the aspects of a career in geriatric care management?
Assessment:
Identify the individualized health, social, and economic circumstances of your
elderly client. Identify public and private resources. Medication noncompliance;
transportation difficulties; social isolation.
Planning:
Determine short- and long-term goals of elderly clients and their families.
Develop action-oriented and time-specific objectives. Increased utilization of
available resources, including social and health care services.
Implementation:
Execute specific interventions. Facilitate progress toward mutually planned
goals. Health care teaching resources for prevention and maintenance;
transportation availability; social activities at local senior citizen center.
Coordination:
Identify, obtain, integrate, and modify resources for long- and short-term care
needs. Medical services; home health assistance; volunteer and state-sponsored
senior citizen assistance services.
Monitoring:
Serve as liaison and facilitate communication with members of the support team.
Communicate with client, family, health and human services providers; monitor
plan feasibility.
Evaluation:
Analyze the effectiveness of the geriatric care management plan and modify the
plan according to client’s changing needs. Home care, assisted living, and
residential care.
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