Care Management
We help clients create a care plan for aging in place or after the diagnosis of a terminal illness. Each plan is customized to fit the client’s needs and desires. We communicate virtually and in person with healthcare providers, family care team, and professional support partners. Our goal is make sure your loved one feels more supported and empowered to live life fully.
Coaching
Coach families to recognize and proactively navigate situations before frustrations, actions and reactions occur.
Communicating
Facilitate discussions between healthcare providers, family care team, and support professionals to make sure everyone is on the same page.
Advocating
Advocate to make sure the client’s needs are being considered and respected within the Care Plan.
Other Services
Other services include running errands, cooking, companionship, overnight support, drive to appointments and stay with the client at the appointment, and many more.
Care Partner Education & Training
Being a care partner for a loved one is often challenging, confusing, and exhausting, but it doesn’t have to be. I can equip you with tools and techniques for care-giving and be an encouraging advocate alongside you and your loved one every step of the way. To help make both yours and your loved one’s journey easier, I will:
Educate
Educate family and friends to help them understand the disease, what it involves, and how they will be impacted.
Teach Positive Approach
Teach Positive Approach to Care ™ techniques to family members and care partners, professional staff, and first responders.
Act as an Advocate
Act as an encouraging advocate alongside you and your loved one every step of the way.
Engage Every Step of the Way
Engage with clients on doctor visits, during social activities, and using intellectual stimulation.
End-of-Life Coaching
Let’s talk openly about end-of-life issues. I am a certified End-of-Life Doula: someone who is trained and experienced in noticing end-of-life transitions, non-verbal cues, and creating a safe and meaningful experience. Together, let’s create a pathway that ensures all legal, care, and memorial planning logistics are covered so that you and your loved one can focus on what truly matters. I will help you navigate this path by providing:
Education on Levels of Care
Education on the different levels of palliative and hospice care.
Decision Making Tips
Decision-making tips about maintaining your loved one’s quality of life
Assistance in Funeral Arrangements
Assistance in making funeral arrangements, memorial services, or celebrations of life.
Help for the Individual Dying
Help for the individual dying (i.e. providing their “voice”) and offering compassionate care and support to family/friends.
Workshops
Understanding Dementia Workshop
These three workshops are based upon Teepa Snow and Positive Approach® to Care’s foundations and methods.
What is Dementia?
Understanding the truth behind a broken brain.
The 4 F’s in creating a positive environment for your loved one
Is your environment: Friendly, Functional, Forgiving, Familiar?
Are you a care partner or a care parent?
Dealing with End-of-Life Workshop
Making Memories When You Think You Cannot
Life is meant to be lived.
Feeling Empowered, Before You Work with Hospice
Create a positive relationship with hospice.
How to Say Goodbye When Someone You Love is Transitioning
Learn the keywords and phrases our loved ones want to hear before they pass away.
Series for Caregivers
Care Partner Support Series – Based on the teaching of Teepa Snow and Positive Approach® to Care
A 5-week, support group, engages and educates care partners by teaching them new skills and ways to handle conflict.
Six Pieces of the Puzzle – Based on the teaching of Teepa Snow and Positive Approach® to Care
A 6-week class, that teaches 6 pieces of the caregiving puzzle. Learn the 3 pieces you can influence and the 3 you cannot.
Dealing with Dementia: A Caregiver’s Guide – from the Rosalyn Carter Institute for Care Giving
A two- part series focused on learning to use a caregiver’s manual, to empower yourself and others, while being the best care partner you can be.