Gary King, a LivHOME Care Manager in Northern California, helped one woman recover from a serious injury by addressing the administrative challenges arising from her insurance coverage and hospitalization. The 44-year-old woman had suffered a head injury while completing a bicycle race, and was hospitalized an hour from home. Gary worked with the woman’s husband to guide his family through the process of managing his wife’s recovery – all the way up to her eventual return home.

Ann Bradford, a LivHOME Care Manager in southern California, helped one daughter realize that living at home was indeed an option for her mom. The senior, a woman with mild dementia and diabetes, had been living alone with support from the daughter while her husband was temporarily hospitalized after suffering a fall. The daughter thought a facility would be her mom's best option, but this proved not to be the case.

Martha Bass, a LivHOME Care Manager in Boston, demonstrated how important it is to keep an eye not only on the senior receiving care but the needs of other family members as well. Martha was brought into one family to care for a senior who was working to recover from an injury. Upon getting to know both this man and his family, Martha realized that the wife was also in need of care – perhaps more than her husband. Martha went the extra mile and ended up making a big difference.

Overseen by a LivHOME Care Manager, a well-developed program for seniors can enhance self-esteem and improve a senior's quality of life. Don Mueller, MFT, CMC, worked with one 90-year-old woman to address her physical and emotional well-being. He not only saw to her medical needs but provided emotionally supportive activities such as reminiscence therapy and even a regular movie outing to a local electronics store. Once the woman regained her self esteem, she learned to smile once again and endeared all around her.

LivHOME Care Managers often help seniors and their families by digging beneath the surface. Mande DeRome, MSW, demonstrated this when working with a woman who was apparently suffering from dementia. The woman was living in a messy home, had become separated from her family and appeared to be deaf. However, as Mande found out, her medical condition was not as it first appeared. A buildup of earwax had caused a serious misdiagnosis.

LivHOME Care Managers can provide an enormous service to families by simply taking the pressure off adult children to be full-time caregivers. Susan Peterson, BSN, a LivHOME Care Manager in the Metro D.C. area, was overseeing the care for a man suffering from moderate dementia who needed help in order to remain at home. However, the two daughters who were caring for the nearly 90-year-old man had taken on too great a burden. Susan was able to take some of that caregiving responsibility off the two women, freeing them to spend more time with their father as daughters.

How can loved ones deal with the devastating effects of Alzheimer's? Care Manager, Randi Israel, MSW, LCSW, CMC, helped one Chicago-area family deal with this situation by working not just with the senior -- but considering the disease in the context of the entire family. When the woman was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, the reality hit her husband of 50 years hard. Randi worked with the woman, her husband, and their son -- who was living in Europe -- to address her condition with compassion and respect.