FAQs

Emerald Care’s Geriatric Care Management services take a holistic, client-centered approach to helping older adults and families experience aging in a safe, supportive, autonomous, and satisfying way. Care Management helps structure a seamless experience, improve quality of care, promote client safety and independence, and relieve anxiety for the client and family.

They take a series of steps to help solve problems of older adults facing health care challenges. They also help the older adults and their families implement and monitor these solutions. A Care Manager can also provide preventative services with the goal of helping families anticipate possible needs in the future so that everyone feels supported and better prepared. They forge a positive path forward for you and your loved ones.

It is a multidisciplinary evaluation in which the multiple problems of older people are uncovered, described, and explained, the resources and strengths of the person are catalogued, need for services assessed, and a coordinated care plan developed to focus on solutions to the person’s problems.

Are you helping care for an older loved one and it’s not going as well as you hoped? This is not at all uncommon. Reasons for geriatric care management are varied, but are often due to:
Lack of time to give because of other responsibilities;

• Geographical distance between you and your loved one;
• Challenging family dynamics;
• Unfamiliarity or lack of understanding with complex medical or legal issues; and/or...
• You’re not really sure what to do, what needs to be done, or how to proceed forward?

We provide consultation, assessment, advocacy, and education using our six key services – Five Star Geriatric Care Management, Geriatric Assessment, Medication Management, Home from the Hospital, Concierge Companion, and End of Life Services.

No, the initial consultation is complementary.

I am a registered nurse in the State of Utah and a Certified Care Manager through the National Academy of Certified Care Managers.

Yes, see above. I’m also an Advanced Professional Member of the Aging Life Care Association, formally known as the National Geriatric Care Manager Association.

Informally for five years, formally for two years.

Yes, the after hours/emergency availability details are provided in our service contract.

Yes, we provide unskilled in-home support services.

We can communicate via phone or email.

Our fees are hourly; please reach out to us to discuss them.