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A Geriatric Care Manager is a professional who you can approach when it comes to knowledge and expertise in senior health care issues. They can also be referred to as case managers, elder care managers or service coordinators. Ideally, they have advanced degrees in fields like psychology, gerontology, nursing and other related human and health services fields.

A geriatric care manager can recommend a care plan that best serves the needs of your senior family member. They can also help you arrange for services, and also monitor your senior family’s health care needs. One advantage that they offer is that they can also show you alternatives for your loved one’s care plan based on their knowledge and experience.… Read More…

What They Do Geriatric Care Managers are professional advocates who help seniors and their caregivers lead the highest possible quality of life. Trained in any of a number of fields related to long-term care, the GCM acts as your guide, primarily identifying problems and offering solutions. GCMs are trained to recognize telltale signs in your loved one that indicate specific needs-signs that are clear to trained professionals, but which you may not be able to recognize yourself. GCMs can be hired to help you in times of crisis, should you need respite or as the full-time point of contact for all senior care services. What to Expect GCMs begin the process by conducting a comprehensive care assessment of… Read More…

Patients participating in the Medicare program must meet certain criteria before Medicare will reimburse them for services rendered. A component of this criteria that must be met before Medicare will reimburse the patient for their stay in a skilled nursing facility is skilled physical therapy services. When a patient receives the appropriate amount of skilled physical therapy minutes, a portion of their skilled nursing facility stay is reimbursable. The role of the physical therapist is not only vital to the skilled nursing facility, the patient also depends on the therapist to deliver skilled therapy minutes that may qualify them for monetary reimbursement of their stay.

Physical therapist jobs in skilled nursing facilities are needed due to the… Read More…

Physiotherapy for the elderly is a busy field. Diseases and medical conditions hat require physical therapy abound in older people, and though such cases are not easy to handle, the results when good, are reward enough.

This field is known as geriatric physiotherapy. It was termed a specialized field in 1989. Therapists have studied the problems affecting the elderly since then. A number of problems affecting the older population have been identified and are treated by geriatric physiotherapy.

The disorders covered by physiotherapy for older people include, but are not limited to, arthritic disorders, pulmonary disease, joint replacements, cardiac diseases, cancer, balance disorders, incontinence, Alzheimer’s, pulmonary disorders, strokes and osteoporosis. Each disorder… Read More…

All people grow old in due time. As the years take their toll on a person, the effects slowly start to become visible: the strength seeps away, focus gets blurred, old complaints blow up into all-out diseases and patience runs thin.

Caring for the elderly requires a lot more training and specialization than what regular nursing, and this is exactly why geriatric nurses can be considered the heroes of the elderly. These traits are what give geriatric nurses their unique and respectable role in caring for the elderly:

Medical Training

Every nurse that graduates from school is trained in their respective fields, and geriatric nurses are no exception. From learning how to find the right vein for an… Read More…