Medical
Who decides what type of care your aging loved ones need? When it comes down to selecting treatment protocols, tests, procedures and living arrangements, what are the primary factors influencing the person making these decisions?
Too often, medical decisions for elders are made with too much emphasis on financial considerations or convenience. The elder’s quality of life, overall health, and personal preferences get lost along the way.
That’s not how Bass Eldercare Resources does it. We’re committed to ensuring that every elder we work with has access to the full range of appropriate senior care. Our professional, experienced team is proficient at advocating with funding sources, from private insurance to Medicare and Medicaid. We understand the range of treatment options, from nursing homes to assisted-living facilities to in-home care, and all the intricacies of paying for each option.
It is our mission to ensure that our elders receive the care they need and deserve in the setting they prefer, to the greatest degree possible. Obviously, some conditions require more intensive treatment, but even in those instances, we’re right there, ensuring that the elder’s wants, needs and preferences are listened to and honored.
Legal Advocacy
Elders have some unique legal challenges. There are many issues to consider. Who makes medical decisions when the elder cannot make them for him or herself? Who is responsible for paying the elder’s bills? How does one protect the elder’s assets — the legacy they’ve worked their entire life to accumulate — while still paying for long-term care? Who protects the elder from being scammed or taken advantage of?
Bass Eldercare Resources has legal experts on our team, who are well versed in the specialized field of elder law. Whether your senior loved one needs a healthcare proxy, a living will or other legal documents, we’re equipped, prepared and passionate to ensure that all of their needs are met. That way, your elder, their legacy and you are all protected from any unpleasant surprises.
Entitlement Services: Navigating The Paperwork Maze
Make no mistake: providing quality elder care is expensive. No matter what option your family selects — a nursing home, an assisted living facility, or receiving in-home care — the costs can be astronomical. Trying to fund this care out of pocket will impoverish the average family in less than two years.
No one wants that. Ensuring that your aging loved one has access to all the eldercare services they need and deserve means dealing with one of the most confusing bureaucracies the world has ever seen: health insurance.
The average senior has a primary health insurance company, and perhaps secondary coverage. Add to that Medicare; the government system in place to ensure that no seniors go without health coverage, and Medicaid, the insurance of last resort. The relatively recent emergence of prescription drug plans has only made the whole process more difficult.
There are literally reams of forms that must be read, completed accurately and directed to the proper agency. It is overwhelming, it is time-consuming and it is confusing. Many families have never dealt with this paperwork before. They’re forced to learn as they go — in an area where a mistake can have extremely costly consequences.
Bass Eldercare Resources has a team of experienced professionals who excel at cutting through the elderly case management paperwork with the most efficient, effective method possible. We understand the regulations. We’re familiar with the forms. We know the ins and outs of Medicare and Medicaid. We’re prepared to advocate on your aging loved one’s behalf when penny-pinching accountants say NO to the care your elder needs. Letting us coordinate your elder’s journey through the entitlement system will eliminate a tremendous amount of stress on you, and effectively ensure that your aging loved one gets all the care they need — without your family going broke!
Family Dynamics
Caring for an aging loved one can tear a family apart. We’ve seen it happen so many times: the majority of elder care giving falls on the relative who happens to be closest — while more distant relatives “get off easy.” Or, financial pressures fall disproportionately on one sibling while the others “can’t afford it.” Even in the strongest families, these situations lead to bitter resentment and relationship-severing conflicts — the last thing any parent or grandparent wants to see happen!
No one can love your aging family member as much or as well as you. That’s the most important thing you can be doing. Study after study has shown us that providing consistent loving attention to an aging family member is one of the most critical factors in improving health and wellness, emotional and mental health and overall quality of life.
Using our services allows you to focus on being the loving, supportive family your elder expects and deserves. By coordinating the countless administrative and logistical tasks of elder care — the medical, the legal and the financial — we eliminate the seemingly never-ending drain on your time, energy and resources. You’re free to focus on what’s truly important: your loved ones. And, at the same time, your elder is able to maintain their independence and quality of life, giving you the peace of mind you deserve.
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