We hold your hands through the care journey.

Being a caregiver is stressful.

Our Professional Aging Life Care Managers provide holistic advocacy and care coordination for older adults, adults living with disabilities, patients and family caregivers.

We are here to help with:

  • Developing practical “plans of care.” What do we do, how do we do it, and where do we start?

  • Figuring out the care that you or your loved one needs and how to pay for it.

  • Review of legal estate planning documents to make sure that they will work when they need to in order to avoid guardianship or conservatorship proceedings. If you have not executed your legal documents (or have not reviewed them recently) you are in good company as AARP estimates that 60% of other adults in the US have not done so either.*

  • Helping family members who don’t agree get “on the same page” through informal elder care mediation.

  • Crisis intervention. The blank hit the blank and you are panicking with no idea where to start! We do. And we are ready to “jump in with both feet” when you need us most to do so.

  • Discharge planning from acute care and sub-acute care facilities (it NEVER EVER goes smoothly…)

  • Preventing hospitalizations. People are rarely “better” after an emergency room visit or acute care stay than if we can put systems in place to avoid going to the hospital in the first place.

  • Accessing, understanding or appealing your long term care insurance benefits/claims. We have a 100% success rate with clients that we have either helped initiate a claim for, or appeal a denial of, benefits.

  • You want to help relocate your loved one from or to a different state, town, or facility and you need an aging life care professional to connect all of the dots and make sure that the move goes smoothly. While we work with some amazing placement agency representatives their job is just that—placement. Our job is to deal with all of the other “stuff.”

  • Be the local and long-distance caregiver’s “boots on the ground” whether their loved one lives at home or in a long term care facility in Northern New Jersey. We also provide peace of mind for caregivers who have second homes/vacation plans OR who are juggling their own family and work responsibilities and they NEED to know that there is someone local that they trust who can advocate for their loved one.

  • Guardianship assessments and plans of care.

  • Facilitating the sharing of information between patients, health care providers, and family caregivers.

  • Avoiding becoming a burden on your spouse, adult children and grandchildren. With Healthy Aging Life Care planning we want to help you avoid care-related crisis situations. We call this “what if?” planning.

  • Maintaining safety, independence and quality of life for care recipients AND family caregivers.

We have decades of experience in the areas of patient advocacy, law, benefits administration and social services. We have also been family caregivers ourselves and so we understand what you are going through.

* https://www.aarp.org/money/investing/info-2017/half-of-adults-do-not-have-wills.html