Professional Care Managers

Professional care managers also known as Geriatric Care Managers, Elder Care Managers or Aging Care Managers, represent a growing trend to help full time, employed family caregivers provide care for loved ones. Care Managers are expert in assisting care givers, friends or family members find government paid and private resources to help with long term care decisions.

They are professionals, trained to evaluate and recommend care for the aged.  A care manager might be a nurse, social worker, psychologist or gerontologist who specializes in assessing the abilities and needs of the elderly.  Care managers are also becoming extremely popular as the care taker liaison between long distant family members and their aging elder loved ones.

Services offered will depend of the professional background of the care manager, but most are qualified to cover such items as conducting ongoing assessments to implement changes in care and be informed about what public and private services are available.  In addition the care manager will be familiar with the most qualified home care agencies in the area and most likely have worked with these companies before.

What should long distance care givers look for when choosing a home care agency?