You may be missing work, running up phone and travel expenses and feeling helpless to assure your relative's medical care and social support.

You can have your own professional care manager to oversee your relative's care and report to you on a regular basis. You can stop worrying and start enjoying visits with your relative by phone and in person.

Long Distance Caregiving

Arranging and monitoring your relative's care from a distance has several disadvantages. It requires more time and expense. It's harder to have a clear picture of needs and issues and to get the results you want. Also, the geographical limits contribute to a feeling that you're not doing enough.

Long distance family caregivers who hire our professional care managers experience quick relief. You continue to make major decisions based on your care manager's first hand assessment and recommendations. Freed from the burden of long distance implementation and oversight, you also have more time to simply share life with your relative by phone and occasional visiting.

You can delegate any or all care-related responsibilities to your care manager, including:

• Arranging, overseeing and making adjustments with home care providers as well as outsourcing home maintenance
• Transitioning your relative from home to an assisted living community or nursing home and thereafter reporting to you on the quality of care
• Providing liaison with you and medical professionals during a hospitalization, subsequent rehabilitation and return to the residence
• Supporting and helping your relative to communicate effectively with medical professionals by phone and at appointments, and updating you on all medical developments
• Monitoring the administration of medications and safety conditions wherever your relative is residing

It's difficult enough trying to balance family caregiving with work and your personal life on the local level without professional assistance. Attempting this balancing act on your own from a distance is all the more challenging. As one long distance client recently wrote, "You are my eyes, ears and professional guide. I rest easy knowing that you are tending to all my Mom's care needs and keeping me in the loop."

Our service is adjustable to your changing needs. Our goal is to help you make the best possible decisions for your relative and yourself and to get the quality service and professional support you need at prices you can afford.

Call (510) 652-3377 or (925) 945-8855 or email us for a free personal review of your elder care situation by telephone with no obligation. We'll help you identify affordable solutions and ways we can help you achieve them. Click Here.