Elder Care Plan Services
Help Comfort Elders
and Support Caregivers

The Family Elder Crisis Event:

Who needs Elder Care Plan services? Senior family members and their caregivers. Eventually, everyone.

Most families are unprepared to deal with the needs of aging parents. 76 percent of adults have never discussed senior issues within the family. 70 percent of adult children have never asked parents about their wishes. Nearly half have given no thought to caring for their aging parents. Action is deferred until there is a real need.

The Elephant In The Living Room:

Inevitably, there is that need – the family elder crisis event. It’s like an elephant has escaped from the hall closet and is standing in the living room. It cannot be ignored. It will not be delayed.

The time of the year that experiences the highest number of family senior crisis events is Thanksgiving. The family gathers for the holiday. Then, they discover that something is not right with Granny or Gramps.

No one is immune. It can happen anytime to anyone with aging parents. It often begins with a call from or about an older parent in distress circumstances, or worse. Afterwards, the lives of the older parent and of the primary caregiver will be radically changed. In an effort to provide elder care and comfort to parents, caregivers experience disruptions that reduce the quality of their lives and often disrupt their careers.

Who Are The Caregivers?

Typically, caregivers are 40 years old or more. They are 56 percent women and 44 percent men. At any one time, they average about 11 percent of total population, up to 23 percent of any cross-section adult group and about 13 percent of the workforce. Caregivers are a significant, but not obvious, part of our society.

For more explicit information on Caregivers, click on Caregivers.

Plan Services:

The Elder Care Plan is offered as an addendum that extends the Patient Care Plan services to and for the benefit of family seniors of our employee or individual members or clients who are or expect to be caregivers for their family seniors. To review Patient Care Services, go to Patient Care.

The objectives of the Elder Care services are:

(1) to enhance the life quality of the senior;

(2) to help better manage healthcare for the senior at reduced cost and with less time involvement;

(3) to help better manage senior issues at reduced cost and with less time; and,

(4) to reduce the professional or workplace costs, time and distractions of caregivers, thereby minimizing their professional jeopardy and sacrifice.

In addition to the Patient Care Plan services, the senior Care option also offers information, advice, assistance and advocacy services for senior issues. These are optional services at an additional, but usually discounted, cost for those who need such help now or in the future.

The Elder Care Plan can include the following services that help seniors and assist caregivers:

Caregiver Guides And Checklists;

Caregiver Administrative Assistance;

Elder Law Research and Referral Services;

Estate Planning and Investment Referral Services;

Seniors and Estate Tax Advisory Referral Services;

Home Care Personal Living Assistance Referral Services;

Geriatric Assessment Referral Services;

Assisted Living Research and Referral Services;

Nursing Home / Hospice Referral Services;

Senior Affairs Counselor Services and Referrals.

What Benefits To Caregivers?

This plan will help caregivers restore the quality of their physical, financial and professional lives, even as they fulfill their caregiver obligations. How? We’ll provide caregivers and their seniors with quality assistance, advice, research and referrals. We’ll offer time / cost / red tape cutting measures to help caregivers better manage their healthcare and eldercare affairs at lower costs. We’ll help them minimize their workplace and work time distractions.

What Benefits Will The Elder Care Plan Give To Employers?

This plan can boost the employer’s bottom line through decreased costs and increased productivity. How? Because it can help employers reduce their costs due to the distractions, tardiness and absenteeism of caregiver employees. AARP surveys indicate that the annual costs to employers for issues involving caregiver employees average $1,142 per employee.

The plan can reduce the costs of replacement worker recruitment and training. It can reduce the need for caregivers to opt for part time work or to quit work or to retire early. It can help caregiver employees increase workplace focus and productivity because this can decrease their need to make caregiver calls during working hours.

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