Free Private Senior Care Referral Service
Mary Trabert
Free Private Senior Care Referral Service
This week I spoke with Tim Burris, Regional Director, A Place For Mom, to learn more about his organization’s valuable services. A Place For Mom is a free private senior care referral service. The experienced family advisors, such as Tim, offer families information on retirement communities, assisted living facilities, nursing homes and home care. Their consultation is provided at no cost to the families since many communities and home health care companies reimburse A Place for Mom for their services.
Since the family advisors are in and out of the facilities and communities in their location they can provide you with the “inside scoop.” If you are looking for residential or health care options for a family member, visit www.aplaceformom.com to locate a family advisor to assist you with your search at no cost to you.
Note: Working with a family advisor from A Place For Mom is no substitute for hiring a geriatric care manager. A geriatric care manager, usually a registered nurse or social worker with specialized experience and/or training in gerontology, can provide a broader range of services for you and your family member for a fee. (Services include assessing needs; developing a care plan; helping resolve family conflict; managing reluctance about a move; and monitoring the quality of care a family member receives.) You can locate a geriatric care manager in your family member’s area by visiting www.findacaremanager.org.
Thanks to Dee Dee Harris of the Eastern North Carolina Alzheimer’s Association for directing me to A Place for Mom!
Linking you with helpful caregiving resources
and wishing you a wonderful week.
Mary Trabert
Co-author, The Portable Caregiver: 8 Essential Guidebooks for Elder Care
www.portablecaregiver.com
To make The Portable Caregiver more affordable to caregivers of both Mom and Dad (or of two grandparents or great aunts or uncles) throughout July we’ll be offering a special price for purchase of multiple books. For each copy of The Portable Caregiver purchased at $49.95 you can purchase a 2nd copy for only $10.00 more. So for $59.95 (plus shipping and NC tax, if applicable) you will have two sets of each of the guidebooks within The Portable Caregiver, including separate health and medication records, appointment book, financial, legal, social, spiritual and end-of-life planning pages for each adult you are caring for.
To order, call Mary or Tom at 1-919-968-3858 and mention promotion code FD05.
