May is Aging Life Care Professional’s Month
As professional Care Managers (Aging Life Care Professionals), when we take on clients, we are 100% committed to them, their wellness, helping them to reach their goals, and being there for them and their families through all their difficult times. And then in comes COVID-19 making everything that much harder. I learn of my client’s fever. They are in a nursing home, and the nursing home is on lockdown. I cannot be there to orchestrate care and comfort, and suddenly they are gone.
COVID 19: SPOUSAL CAREGIVING AT HOME:
Now, in comes a global pandemic and a “Stay at Home Order”. Not only have your activities gone out the window, but you fear your spouse will decline. You worry about your loved one’s health and what will happen if you become ill? Who will take care of your spouse?
Advance Directives: What you need to have on hand
In our effort to ensure that you and your loved ones are fully prepared for any illness, it is critically important that you have on hand now - not in your lawyers office or buried in a file cabinet - all appropriate advanced directives. I know this is a sobering process but let's make sure you have everything you need available to you, if needed.
Covid 19: When your loved one is on lockdown in an Assisted Living Community.
Family, friends, companions, therapists and team members of all types including Care Managers are not allowed into the building to help support the older adult. They are in isolation. What can you do to help your loved one?
