Coaching Services

A specially trained Geriatric Care Manager and Health & Wellness Coach works with you and your family to understand and accept the behaviors resulting from the brain changes. Your coach will teach you how to simplify tasks so that your loved one can participate more fully and safely in his own care and continue to find pleasure in family life.  

You will learn how to adopt a new way of communicating to accommodate the language changes dementia brings. We teach effective strategies that improve the quality of life for the person with memory loss and help family members maintain healthy relationships with their loved one.

Coaching for Caregivers™ can help you:

• Understand dementia
• Understand how Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed
• Understand the behaviors commonly seen in dementia
• Learn new ways to respond to behaviors
• Find balance in your life and take care of yourself
• Stress relief and improve coping skills
• Plan for future needs
• Provide ongoing support and guidance
• Our goal is to enhance care partnering through:
• Informational and supportive coaching
• A written individualized ElderCare Plan™
• Information about additional resources
• Telephone or E-mail problem solving conversations
• Ongoing supportive coaching
• Staff Training

Coaching for Caregivers™ provides in service education for health care staff working with the dementia population in adult day care centers, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and physician practices. Training includes but is not limited to:

• How to communicate with a dementia patient
• How to manage common difficult behaviors
• How to provide personal care and showering for the dementia patient
• Activities for the dementia patient 
• Managing combativeness
• Sundowners
• Caring for the Caregiver
• Accessing community based services
• Where to Turn
• Open Q & A-forums
• Lunch & Learn Programs