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  Do You Have a Care Management Disaster Plan?  As of Today, six devastating fires surround Los Angeles, more than 100,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, and five people are dead. This newest towering  Catastrophic climate disaster should tell you that you need an agency climate disaster plan to prepare your aging clients and family members in your caseload for catastrophe so…

  Do You Have a Care Management Disaster Plan?  As of Today, six devastating fires surround Los Angeles, more than 100,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, and five people are dead. This newest catastrophic climate disaster should tell you that you need an agency climate disaster plan to prepare your aging clients and family members in your caseload for catastrophe so they can get…

  Use Reminiscence therapy to capture family tales of aging parents or clients in the New Year. Do you use reminiscence therapy? Do you know how to use a reminiscence tool? Have you lost an aging parent and wished you had asked them more questions to reminisce about their past, family history, and childhood? Have you dabbled in ancestry and realized -too late- that you should have listened…

A sad Sandwich generation parent and daughter The sandwich generation is moving toward the proverbial Dagwood sandwich, which is so filled with layers that it might collapse.  As care managers, we know the struggle adult children in their 50s’ and 60s have in dealing with their aging parents’ decline. But Now they face another Layer of the Dagwood -Adult children In the past decade,…

SIGN UP FOR MY HOLIDAY WEBINAR – Long Distance Caregivers stressed by distance  Stressed Caregivers Created By Parents Decline at Thanksgiving Visit Stressed caregivers are preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday gathering. So care managers -get ready for the holiday rush -when these long-distance caregivers call you. Many have often been flying or driving to visit and care for aging family…

busi Billing and Profit may be mind-numbing to care managers who started an Aging Life or geriatric care management business because they are nurses and social workers who never billed but got a paycheck. However, billing and profit need to be in the toolbox of care management skills. Beware– without the tools and skills to make money- your great idea of a private geriatric care management…

Jim, Boyd, a new care manager, and his wife lost their home truck belongings- all burned to the ground in the Paradise, California, fire in 2018.

ALCA  Member Jim Boyd Lost everything— Jim, Boyd, a new care manager, and his wife lost their home truck belongings- all burned to the ground in the Paradise, California, fire in 2018. He was rescuing an elderly client whose house was in flames while Jim’s house and all his belongings were destroyed by the Camp Fire in 2018, the largest fire in California history. The fire killed 85 residents in…