Services for Seniors

 

We look forward to retirement as a time when we expect less stress.  However, the years beyond retirement can bring many challenges for seniors and their families or caregivers.   These can include:

· Relating to adult children and grandchildren

· Coping with changes in health

· Grief and loss

· Adjusting to life after death of spouse

·  Moving from home to retirement community  

· Problem-solving with getting daily needs met

· Balancing needs of parents with needs of children and grandchildren

· Care giving stress and burnout

· Long-distance care giving

· Family conflict related to care of parents

· Coping with loss of a parent

 · Managing health crises

· Adjusting to move from one level of care to another in a long term care facility

· Having adequate support and advocacy in Assisted Living or Nursing Home

· Finding purpose and meaning in late life

 

FLRC provides a variety of services designed to assist seniors and their families or caregivers.   These services include:                     

· Individual and Family Therapy is appropriate when the stress associated with change and loss results in depression, anxiety, or other emotional problems that impair functioning.  Often this type of counseling is useful when there have been sudden health changes, death of a spouse, major changes or transitions, or caregiver burnout.  This is a service that is typically reimbursed by Medicare and Supplemental Insurance.  

· Information and Referral is helpful when seniors, families, and caregivers want to know what services are available in the community.  We will provide information that is relevant to your situation and help with the referral process. 

· Consultation can be helpful when there is a specific situation or issue that needs to be addressed.  One or two sessions may provide choices and potential solutions for an older person and his/her family. 

· Short-Term Counseling can help when there is an important decision to be made, or a problem to be solved.  Sometimes help is needed to resolve a crisis, manage a transition, or help a senior and family resolve a conflict.   

· Home Visits are helpful when getting to an office setting presents difficulty for the senior and/or caregiver and family.  We are open to making home visits for individual and family therapy, as well as for our other services.  There is a charge for drive time.  

· Professional Geriatric Care Management is a comprehensive service that helps solve and manage the problems faced by older people, particularly those who do not have adult children or close relatives who arrange for needs to be met and provide ongoing support and care.  FLRC’s Geriatric Care Management services include: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            

 

 

Text Box: Provide in-home assessments to identify problems and recommend solutions. Screen, arrange, and monitor in-home help. Make referrals for appropriate community services and follow up as needed. Crisis intervention, including support during hospitalizations. Serve as a liaison with physicians or other involved professionals. Act as a liaison to long distance caregivers, with overseeing care and alerting to needs. Serve as an advocate and support to persons living in assisted living or nursing home facilities. Provide supportive home visits and telephone check-in contacts.  

Care Management Services typically involves an in-home assessment where the needs of an older person are identified.  A Care Plan that addresses these needs and possible solutions is developed and agreed upon by the older person and all involved persons.  The Care Plan addresses who will do what, and the Care Manager sees that the plan is carried out.  The Care Plan becomes the basis for the Service Agreement that clarifies the tasks of the Care Manager and addresses payment for services. 

For more information on standards of practice for Professional Geriatric Care Management, visit www.caremanager.org.

 

 

 

Staff

 

 

Text Box: Lois V. Wenger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Care Manager who has over 30 years of experience with mental health counseling.  Her interest in providing services to seniors comes from her personal experience with 17 years of caregiving for an elderly parent,  as well as the many seniors whom she has seen professionally in her 10 years of practice at FLRC.  Lois also provides services to residents of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community.  She is certified by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers and is a member of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care  Managers.

               

 

 

Costs

 Medicare and Supplemental Insurance typically reimburses for Diagnostic Assessment and Individual and Family Therapy. FLRC will bill insurance for you.  There may be an insurance co-payment, depending on your policy. 

All other services are private pay at $80 per hour.  There is a 20% discount for payment at time of service or prepaid services.  Some long term care policies reimburse for geriatric care management. 

 

 

Referral Process

 Call FLRC at 540-434-8450 or 800-655-2055 to schedule a free brief telephone or in-person consultation to discuss which services are appropriate or desired. 

Please call or write for a free brochure on “What is a Geriatric Care Manager?” 

Questions about services for seniors may be directed to Lois Wenger at Lois@flrc.org or lvwenger@adelphia.net.