Article: Texas Geriatric Care Management

Texas Geriatric Care Management for
Older Adults

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Geriatric Care Managers are a growing field of professionals that can help long distance caregiveres and families struggling with the needs to aging relatives, the geriatric care manager can be a godsend. This emerging breed of specialists can assess a senior's physical, social, and financial needs and stitch together a patchwork of services to address them.

Driven by rising costs of healthcare and public welfare programs, insurance executives and public policy makers have found ways to impose limits on spending in health and social services through enrollment and eligibility requirements.

Providers, such as health care institutions and local government health and social service agencies, must operate within these financial limits. To do so, they hire case/care managers to assess the needs of clients or patients, develop a plan of services to meet those needs, arrange and monitor delivery of services, and evaluate the effectiveness and need for continuation of services.

A new area of practice has recently emerged in the private sector that uses the same tasks and skills -

Geriatric care managers contract independently as consultants for families with dependent older adults or as contracted agent representatives for corporate employee benefit services. Their clients often live in a different geographic area with a service system unfamiliar to family members. Web sites on this page help define this new profession and practice, describe organizations which represent its professional development, and include select examples in institutional, governmental and private practice environments.

Who provides Care Management?

Care management can be provided a couple of ways. One way, is through the use of private case managers. Typical charges can range from $40/hr to $95/hr depending on the area, the credentials, and the actual services. The second way is through a variety of state agencies and non-profit organizations.

Commission for Case Manager Certification, accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, provides information about becoming certified as a Case Manager.

PART II - Selecting a Texas Geriatric Care Manager

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