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If you are here, you are facing big decisions. We provide unbiased answers, advice, and advocacy. We know the rules, regulations and your rights. Let us take you from “hoping” you’re doing the right thing…to knowing you are.
“Your best interest is our only interest. We are all about you . . . all about choice.”
Money Saving Discounts:
- Senior Life extends our purchase power to our clients.
Stay at Home Assessments
- Memory systems
- Driving and transportation issues
- Mail, bills, and appointment assistance.
- Nurse specialist assessment: body systems, medications, mood, memory and wellness.
(With a written report to your doctor.) - Medication reminder systems
- Socialization
- Hiring helpers: options and costs
- Care coordination
- Family mediation
- Decision support
- Benefits and insurance review
- Assistive equipment and tips
- “What if” solutions
- Emergency papers: do you have what you need?
- Referrals You Can Trust: elder law attorneys, medical specialists, therapies, realtors, security systems, handyman and more.
Caregiver Support / Relief
- Replace guesswork with confident decisions
- Respite stays
- Doctor appointment transport and attendance
- Agency help: options and costs
- Family mediation
- Long distance family support
- Standby program for life’s “what ifs:” Become a member and know we’re here if you need us. Includes vacation and business travel coverage or backup.
- Guardianship support
- Relocation assistance
- Hospice decision support
- Referrals You Can Trust: support groups and any type of professional necessary to meet your needs.
Hospitalization and/or Discharge Support
- Advocacy to assert your wishes or untangle your situation.
- Chart review
- Care meeting support
- Streamlined discharge solutions with referrals you can trust.
Benefits, Insurance, and Paperwork
- Veterans Benefits
- Prescription Insurance
- Long Term Care Insurance
- Medicare / Health Insurance
- Medicaid and Elder Law Attorney referrals
Move Decisions: No Two Communities Are the Same
- Decision support: senior and family – saves time and worry
- Identify level of need and your wishes
- Optional training on various levels of housing (services and costs:) independent apartments, assisted style living, nursing homes and low income housing.
- Cut to the chase: pinpoint housing that meets your needs
- Lifetime cost projections
- Strategy map if your money runs low
- Transition support
- Referrals you can trust: move managers, estate assessors and sales, clean-out crews, home staging, realtors and more.
Nursing Homes: Choosing, Rehabilitation, or Moving Out
- PRI Services (a NYS mandatory review and form completion required before moving to a nursing home.)
- Decision support: we’ll assess if your family member qualifies for a nursing home, and strategies to make the move a positive one.
- Comparison analysis of nursing home services, accommodations, costs
- Find quality nursing homes with low funds or Medicaid
- Cut to the chase: identify which nursing homes meet your needs
- Application strategy and assistance
- Grievance consultation. We’ll explain the rules, regulations and your rights. We represent your best interest.
- Chart review
- Grievance advocacy to assert your wishes or untangle your situation
- Care meeting support.
If you like what you see here, contact us for consultation. We will meet over a cup of coffee or tea, and discuss your concerns. During this session we will learn about your situation and then make suggestions and referrals. Sometimes that’s all the help a family needs.
If what you want isn’t listed, just ask. If we don’t know the answer, we’ll tell you. Then we’ll refer you to someone who does.