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The Caregiver’s Resource Helpline provides professional guidance, practical “how to” information and listing of resources, in an easy to listen to format, to help you deal with caring for an aging family member.

Made possible by corporate sponsorship and paid advertising, the Caregiver’s Resource Helpline can help you work through the most challenging of caregiving situations.

How does it work?
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The Caregiver’s Resource Helpline, a toll-free 24-hour automated voice-information service comprehensively covers the most common concerns you will experience in the care of an aging family member or disabled spouse.

Often unprepared, a caregiver’s greatest challenge is knowing what resources are available, how to find them and what to do with them.

The Caregiver’s Resource Helpline (888-791-7301)helps to shorten the learning curve and equip caregivers with effective guidance, advice and reassurance. Callers to the Caregiver's Resource Helpline can expect to

• Simply pick up the phone 24 hours a day (888-791-7301)
  
• Listen to safe and practical “how to” information about caring for an aging family member
  
• Connect to local resources independently certified with a 90% or higher customer satisfaction rating
  and
  
• Receive a fax brochure from Senior Approved advertisers, leave a message and/or talk to a product or service representative during normal business hours.

Callers to the Caregiver's Resource Helpline (888-791-7301) can rest assured that the certified Senior Approved Service they are considering is an excellent choice!

What are the Programs and Topics of Interest on the Caregiver's Resource Helpline?
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Research indicated the most common concerns of those involved in the care of an aging family member or disabled spouse fall in the following Programs and Topics of Interest:

Program 1 - Physical & Mental Conditions of Aging

Typically, in later life there is a strong association with several chronic health conditions that can affect physical and mental health.

1. Vision & Hearing
2. Taste, Smell & Touch
3. Help With Eating
4. Maintaining an Active Mind
5. Dealing With Confusion

Program 2 - Living Arrangements

When caring for an aging family member nearby or from a distance, making the most appropriate living arrangements requires knowledge of housing options, awareness of community resources and assurance that your aging family member is in a safe environment.

1. Exploring Housing Options
2. Long Distance Caregiving
3. Locating Community Resources
4. Choosing a Nursing Home
5. Subacute Nursing Home Care
6. Safety in the Home
7. Dealing with Medication

Program 3 - Financial & Legal Assistance

Making informed financial and legal decisions are critical to successfully managing the affairs of an aging family member. You'll learn about longterm care insurance, sources for paying medical expenses and federal benefits such as Social Security, SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. Discover strategies for protecting your family member and his/her assets.

1. Help for Medical & Long-term Care
2. Medicare
3. Medicaid
4. Help With Income & Housing Expenses
5. Legally Protecting Your Family Member
6. Protecting Your Family Member’s Assets
7. Getting Private Insurance
8. Wills & Living Wills

Program 4- Self Help for the Caregiver

Informal caregiving is a challenging, yet rewarding experience. Understanding how to balance responsibilities by taking care of your needs and involving others helps manage the natural stress and isolation of being a caregiver.

1. Taking Charge
2. Maintaining an Positive Attitude
3. Determining Your Family’s Needs
4. Dealing With Professionals
5. Involving the Family
6. Avoiding Burnout

Program 5 - Dealing With Changes

Change is the most predictable aspect of caregiving. You can expect to have strong feelings as you manage the role and responsibilities of caring for an aging family member. Coping with these changes successfully is the key to having a fulfilling and satisfying caregiving experience.

1. Dealing With Your Feelings
2. Changing Family Roles
3. Avoiding Isolation
4. Recognizing Changes
5. Planning for Difficult Situations
6. Planning for Death

After listening to the Topic of Interest, you can dial the Senior Approved Services Directory to request information about product or service related to the Program of Interest, listen again or select another topic.

The features of the Caregiver’s Resource Helpline enables you to request product or service information, connect to the advertiser for further consultation, receive an advertiser’s fax brochure or leave a voice-mail message.

What do caregivers want?

According to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Caregiver Focus Group Findings:

• Caregivers do not self-identify
• Caregivers want practical “how to” information
• Caregivers want to find information quickly, when they need it.
• Communications must have a creative appeal, make an emotional connection

The goal of the Caregiver's Resource Helpline is to be your source for information, guidance and resources you can trust. Building on the Senior Approved process, we feel confident in delivering on what we say!

About Us

Caregiver’s Resource, Inc. exists to provide affordable and easy to get to professional advice, guidance and resources to help those involed in the care of an aging parent or disabled spouse.

With over 25 years of human service, employee assistance and work/lifeexperience, the formation of Caregiver’s Resource Inc. was based on the founder, John L. Webb, Jr.’s work as a Master’s level medical social worker in home health care and discharge planning.

John’s role was to assist with planning discharge of a patient to home and/or an intermediate care facilities as well as provide guidance and information about community resources such as home health care, transportation, financial and legal services, counseling etc.

As John counseled these patients and family members who were anxious and unprepared for managing the circumstances and impact of a sudden illness, it was a “heart-felt” response to find a way to empower themwith solution oriented information and guidance to navigate the maze ofdecision-making to care for aging family member.

The Caregiver’s Resource Inc. team comprises professionals specializing in geriatric care management, eldercare resource and referral.

Cargiver's Resource is a valued Collaborative Partner of Senior Approved Services. Feel free to contact this organization directly.