Nurse Galinas Care Giving of New Jersey

I am very prepared for the caregiving service and i am standing by to support you and to bring life enhancing care to your loved one.

Along with my small team of carefully selected caregivers, we offer 4 programs to ease the stress of caregiving and to give every older American the opportunity to live life on their own terms in the the place they know by heart.....their home regardless of their life limiting diagnosis. Our services include;

DEMENTIA CARE, MEMORY CARE, MENTAL WELLNESS & PERSONAL CARE AT HOME:

This service is available for as little or as much as you need (there are no minimum number of hours required) and it is delivered to where ever you call home and it is performed by certified nursing assistants, certified home health aides home, certified patient care technicians and certified medical assistants.

In this program we offer:

· Hygiene and grooming

· Medication reminders and assistance

· Home making and house keeping

· Laundry

· Meal Preparation

· Socialization

· Errands and shopping

· Mental stimulation and memory games

· Restorative care to improve and maintain mobility

· Plant care & Pet Care

· Personal care

Our goal with this service is 4 pronged:

#1. To support INDEPENDENCE and to deliver dignified care so older adults can remain in the home for as long as possible if is their wish.

#2. To give every older adult the opportunity to enjoy a high quality of life on their own terms where ever they call home regardless of their life limiting diagnosis.

#3. To make care affordable by offering care that is not restrictive or limited to a specific number of hours per shift.

#4. To help the family caregivers to keep sane and to promote their work life balance so that caregiving become a less stressful and more gratifying experience.

ASSISTED LIVING AT HOME. This is the service that is gaining the most popularity because many older adults do not want to move from their home. It is around the clock care delivered in 24 hours shifts. It is a good alternative for the person who needs 24 hours care, companionship and supervision but rather remain in their own home. In many cases, the care recipient would use this care program after a month or two of the post hospital or post rehab care program.

The care program is designed to not only support independence but to promote quality of life and health through improved sleep, better nutrition, activities of daily living, socialization and companionship.

The care plan is designed by a registered nurse and the services are performed by certified home care aides and certified nursing assistants. The level of care influences the design of the care program.

Goals & Benefits of the ASSISTED LIVING AT HOME program:

Care will come into the home so that move is not needed if the wish is to stay at home.

Cost range from $11.95-$16/hour for 24 hr care, delivered in 24 hour shifts. It can be more affordable than a private room in a nursing home.

You choose their caregiver and payment program that suits your situation.

The caregivers with advanced training in Parkinson’s, Dementia and Post Surgical Care.

POST HOSPITAL & POST REHAB CARE

Hospitals are turning into a giant ICU so patients who are admitted are much sicker today than patients where admitted into hospitals ten and fifteen years ago.

The problem is this: For every day that you place an older adult in a hospital or rehab bed, he/she loses 3-5 (possibly more for people with movement disorders) days of their pre-hospital level of body functioning. After only a few days in the hospital, your loved one may not be able to walk or to take care of his/her personal care needs. Then, here come the discussion of rehab. Sometimes, he/she may show symptoms of dementia with or after a hospital stay. Statistics has shown that 85% of the people who go into the rehab facility never turn to their home…they get transferred into a long-term care facility because they need more care than their family caregivers are able to provide at the time. What if you are not prepared for that or your loved one does not want to go but needs a lot of care after a hospital stay? What if your loved one wants to come home or stay home and age in place?

The SOLUTION: We created our post rehab and post hospital care program as a solution.

This service is designed either our movement disorder certified RN or our geriatric care manager and the care is performed by our Life Enhancement Caregivers.

Additional services offered in this program include:

· Personal care & hygiene

· Incontinence care to improve bladder and bowel continue

· Restorative exercises to get your loved one walking again

· Parkinson’s care

· Movement disorder care

· Post stroke care

· Post hospital care

· Post-surgical care

· Post rehab care

· Palliative and hospice support care

The BIG GOALS of this program are 3 pronged.

#1. To support the care recipient in regaining their highest functional level in the shortest amount of time possible.

#2. To delay the need for an assisted living or nursing home move or to make is possible for someone to continue living in an assisted living facility even when the level of care has been increased.

#3. To support someone who is transitioning from ne level of care to another including palliative and hospice care.

To learn ore about this service or to discuss your pressing situations, we invite you to join our free virtual class titled Assisted Living At Home: Practical Solutions After A Hospital or Rehab Stay.

CHRONIC ILLNESS MANAGEMENT AT HOME: We are very proud of this service because we are the only agency offering this unique service.

This is the service for the person that is challenged with a chronic illness and multiple co morbidities such as Parkinson’s with dementia, Congestive heart failure with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), heart problems and kidney disease etc.

The problem with Chronic Illness is that the care recipient spends too many hours in a hospital ER because they have symptoms that need to be managed.

We Have A Great Solution and here is how is works. Our geriatric care managers works with the doctors to come up with care program that takes care of the symptoms and improves quality of life. Here is one of our success stories to give you an idea of what this service can do for you.

On Labor Day several years ago we got a call from a gentleman (son, medical doctor and surgeon) wanting to know if we could help with his mom who was at the hospital. She was being discharged from the hospital for the 3rd time in one month and this time her heart had stopped, and they had to do CPR and put her in the ICU. The problem is that he heart only worked 10% (what medicine calls ejection fraction), her bladder did not work at all so she needs to be straight catharized 3 times a day, her rotator cuffs were both damaged so she could not raise her arms above her shoulder so getting dressed is very hard. She had congestive heart failure and COPD as well as diabetes and need blood sugar checks done four times a day. Her walking was getting worse with each hospital stay and, on that day, she needed to be transferred from bed to chair by a really strong person. She was very week and very tired and very sick. She wanted to go home and die and the hospice team was been called in because the doctors said at the ripe age of 85 she was not a surgery candidate and had too many comorbidities.

The son who called us was a physician and had a big and busy medical practice. His mom would call several times a day because she could not breathe and sometimes he was called out of surgery because his mom needed him. He had a brother who lived out of town and so he needed an agency that could not only provide caregivers but could also manage her medical needs. A neighbor had learned about our program from another friend and she referred him to us.

With our chronic illness management program, we were able to put a hold on her hospice admission, we took her home with 24 hours care home certified home care aides and a nurse. The aides provided around the clock care (initially in shifts of 12 hours each and then as she got better in shifts of 24 hours) and the nurse worked with her only 4 hours day for the first week then 3 hours a day for the second and two hours a day for third week and then one hour a day for the fourth week and there after the nurse worked with her for one hour three days a week. She lived a full and beautiful life for four and a half years without hospice and without a trip to the doctors. By 10am every morning, she was fully dressed and ready to go out to lunch and shopping and every event that would let she and her round the clock caregivers.

To find out how to help your loved one with a chronic illness to have a good quality of life, manage their chronic illness, stay symptom free and out of the hospital, call our office today at 201-300-6565.

NURSE NAVIGATION & TRANSITIONAL CARE SUPPORT FOR LONG DISTANCE CAREGIVING.

15% of family caregivers, care from far away. When It is your turn to care, we hope you turn to us.

Our nurse navigators and care managers help to bring peace of mind especially to long distance family caregivers. We offer care management, care coordination and consultation for all your caregiving needs from helping your loved one find the right care all the way to selecting and moving into a different care setting and all in between…..doctor’s appointments and attending discharge planning meetings too.

Your need it, we will find a way to support you so you can enjoy your work life balance while your loved one thrives where ever he/she calls home on his/her own terms.

Care management is the service that helps the older adult, the family members and the health care providers to organize, coordinate and deliver the best quality of care possible under the circumstances at hand.

Our nurse navigator and care management service has a 3 pronged goal:

· To relieve the caregiving stress on hand

· To locate, plan for, coordinate and deliver the best quality of care at the most cost-effective rate available

· To help the older adult find meaning and quality of life in their later years.

OUR CARE MANAGEMENT & NURSE NAVIGATION SERVICES PROVIDES;

Level of care assessments.

Care planning services

Care and or case management

Resource and referral development

Home safety evaluations

Monitoring and oversight of care

Senior care advocacy

Crisis intervention

Care facility review

Coordination of services and service providers

Assistance with the organization of relocating a loved one, setup of housekeeping or transportation services

THE TOP 10 THINGS OUR NURSE NAVIGATORS & CARE MANAGERS CAN HELP YOU WITH

Conduct a level of care assessment to identify caregiving problems and to recommend caregiving solutions

Provide crisis intervention in the home, at a hospital and at a care facility.

Screen, match and arrange for in-home help or other caregiving services including assistance in hiring qualified caregivers at home

Function as a liaison to families who are far away and even those who are close by for overseeing, coordinating and responding to family members in the event of a caregiving problem

Facilitating the relocation of an older adult to and from a retirement community, assisted living facility or a nursing home

Provide advocacy and eldercare education to families and other care team members

Provide eldercare counselling and support

Review financial, legal and medical issues and to offer referrals to all appropriate medical and care specialist

Provide financial, legal and medical review and assessments for the application of benefits including Veteran Administration aid and attendance benefit, long term care insurance and state medical waivers

Help family members keep SANE and to find MEANING and JOY as they juggle responsibilities in all their caregiving roles