ARCM provides evaluation services, counseling, referrals, and recommendations for meeting the needs of the elderly individual. Our goal is to maintain efficient, cost-effective, and timely delivery of services with referrals to other healthcare providers when appropriate.

Our comprehensive approach to care management begins with an initial, private telephone or in-home consultation, followed by a comprehensive evaluation. We then develop a report outlining care concerns, areas of immediate needed assistance, and recommendations in the form of a care plan. The care plan is implemented after consultation with and approval by the elderly person and the family.

The range of Care Plan services includes:

• Identifying available resources to fit specific consumer needs

• Reviewing financial, legal, or medical records and providing referrals, if needed

• Screening, arranging, and monitoring in-home assistance or other necessary services

• Making psychosocial, cognitive, medical, functional, and home safety appraisals

• Locating durable medical equipment and medical supplies, and resources for medication management

• Formulating creative plans for ransportation and appointments, meals and meal planning, chore and household services, home modifications, financial and banking management

• Maintaining on-going communication with the family and other involved parties, providing feedback and review of the status of the individual for continuity of care and realistic decision-making

• Locating durable medical equipment and medical supplies, and sources for medication management

• Offering counseling, transition, and educational services, including

  • Consumer education and advocacy

  • Crisis intervention

  • Individual and family counseling and ongoing liaison support

  • Assistance with transitions to appropriate levels of care

  • Empathetic and caring end-of-life support and bereavement counseling for families