Elder Care Option Provides A One-Shop for Aging Family Members

Elder Care Options, a new program of Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland, helps caregivers find all the services and resources they need to care for elderly family members. Designed to provide high quality services that assist with long-term health and security of older adults while allowing them to continue living with dignity, Elder Care Options provides Care Managers who coordinate everything from legal services to medical care.

Elder Care Options care managers are licensed social workers or registered nurses with in-dept knowledge of Central Maryland, its residents and many resources. Services are tailored to the client’s needs.

Care Managers help families and older people by navigating, coordinating and supporting the client and family through medical crises and discharge planning; conducting assessments focusing on the total person; developing a written summary of the client’s status with Care Plan recommendations, arranging and monitoring services to implement the Care Plan recommendations; coordinating with attorneys, financial planners, insurance agents and medical professionals; being available when family caregivers need a break, go on vacation or live far away from their loved one; and providing education, advocacy, counseling and support.

Care Managers provide monthly monitoring and care plan updates and are available for crisis intervention and reassessments.

Family and Children’s Services’ Elder Care Options program is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, Inc., licensed by the Maryland Department of Mental Hygiene, Office of Health Care Quality, and is a member of the National Association for Home Care and the United Way of Central Maryland.

For information about Elder Care Options, call 1-800-274-1576, or email eldercareoptions@fcsmd.org.