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Senior Life Solutions Assisted Living Program
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The goal of services is to increase and maintain the quality of life for residents; extending the length of time residents can enjoy their quality of life at the Assisted Living and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. We provide support and guidance on psychosocial services by qualified personnel to residents, families and staff to promote healthy aging and functionality. Our services are directed at:
No cost to the facility for counseling sessions. No liability to facility – we carry our own insurance. No administrative requirements for facility – we do our own billing, record keeping, etc. No Doctors order or office visit required for services. |
Residents entering Assisted Living Facilities and Continuing Care Retirement Communities often need assistance in coping with their loss of independence and major life changes.
Our services are designed to help them adjust to this transition and provide therapeutic approaches, designed to enhance the resident’s quality of life, and address many different emotional needs.
To support the resident we will:
- Work with residents to facilitate adjustment to the facility.
- Assess mental health needs of residents – Address depression and evaluate health functioning.
- Professional services can be structured with office hours in facility clinic space on designated days, if desirable.
- Provide counseling services for appropriate referrals.
- Provide family therapy with family members and residents, as appropriate, to address the mental health needs of the resident.
Residents will be able to extend the length of time they can effectively live at specified levels of care.
Facilities have a need and responsibility to meet the psychosocial needs of residents per licensing standards and best practices.
Our program of in-service trainings are designed to:
- Meet the mandate of standards and enhance staff’s training – how to handle, understand and have the ability to work with residents and families, including training in dementia related issues.
- Improve the quality of care provided by staff and extend the length of time that residents can effectively live at specified levels of care.
- Provide education and training to staff to reduce frustration and increase effectiveness to ensure leading edge knowledge and skills related to providing care to residents.
- Reduce stress levels by increasing staff understanding and ability to work with residents, thereby reducing employee turnover and recurring recruiting and training costs.
Family Services
Families need to feel comfortable and be reassured that they have made the right decision. Our services are designed to help them adjust to this transition while ensuring the resident remains an integral part of the family unit. To facilitate this transition we will:
- Develop programs for families to assist them and direct them in appropriate resident interfaces.
- Provide therapeutic or support groups for families.
- Educate families on aging related issues:
- Normal aging and typical comorbid health/mental health issues.
- Cognitive impairment including stages of dementia.
- How to maintain a healthy relationship with their parent(s).
- Promote family understanding and satisfaction with the facility.
Facility Services
- Preadmission consultation – working with residents and families to determine appropriate placement.
- Perform social work assessments – assess residents’ social and emotional needs and develop programs.
- New resident orientation programs including one-on-one counseling.
- Hospitalization evaluation, if requested.
- Provide consultation to activity personnel to ensure the design of mentally and socially stimulating activity programs for all residents and specific programs tailored for Alzheimer’s or dementia units.
- In the absence of activities staff, provide staff and/or assistance in recruiting and training appropriate personnel.
Staff Services
- Developing programs and staff interactions directed at and tailored to the various functional levels of the residents.
- Facility staff competency based education and training that includes testing.
- Changes in ADL’s: eating, grooming/hygiene, dressing and other self-help difficulties, sleeping difficulties, ambulation/transfers, increasingly dependent behaviors.
- Somatic preoccupations: complaintive, multiple physical problems that are frequently unsolvable, aches and pains that change from one day to another and do not respond to the usual standard treatments.
- Regression: isolation, social withdrawal, reduced peer interaction, disinterest in program/activities, general disconnection from others.
- Decreased motivation: loss of interest in prescribed treatment program, refusing participation in PT, OT, Speech and/or uncooperative or non-compliant with treatment recommendations.
- Irritable affect: argumentative, demanding, uncooperative, provoking other residents or family members, disagreeable on approach, moody.
- Anxious: worrisome, fearful, suspicious, panicky, impatient, agitated, restless and fidgety, nervous, realistic and unrealistic fears, ruminative, obsesses about problems.
- Depressed: statements of hopelessness, preoccupied with own thoughts, passive/helpless feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem, tearful/sad, inconsolable, symptoms of “masked depression” (e.g., irritability, withdrawal, reduced motivation). Depressed residents often appear to be cognitively impaired.
- Cognitive difficulty: memory problems impacting mood and/or behavior, recent cognitive decline, rapid-onset cognitive changes or those manifested as distortions and misinterpretations of stimuli and/or external events.
- Adjustment difficulty: resistant to or dissatisfied with placement, disagreeable with family members due to placement or due to separation from, or abandonment, by family members.
- History of problems: previous history of mental health treatment and whose condition requires treatment to maintain functionality at this level of care.
To find out more about the
Senior Life Solutions Assisted Living Program
in one of the following areas:
Austin
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
&
Temple
Contact us:
Senior Life Solutions Assisted Living Program
12012 Wickchester Lane, Suite 550
Houston, Texas 77079
Phone: 832-448-2800 Fax: 832-448-2801
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