GeriEats-Geriatric care: A dignified, compassionate way of providing companion care at home.
What are the intended goals of GeriEats?
- Initial geriatric assessment
- Home safety evaluation
- Avoiding unnecessary medications or recurrent hospitalizations
- Screening for caregiver burnout, falls and frailty
- Assistance with respite care, palliative or hospice care
- Supervision of medication adherence
- Understanding evidence-based geriatric care models of care
- Understanding behavior disturbances related to dementia
- Helping families better understand the complexity of the US health systems
Personal Care Partner
- Attend medical visits and engage with medical staff to update family members
- Supervision of medication compliance and hydration & exercise protocol
- Coordination of specialty care visits and planning
- Coordination of transitional care in the hospital, nursing home or personal home
- Light chores and produce shopping
- Non-medical management of behavior health in dementia
- Covid-19 PPE-compliance at all times
- Companionship during transitions of care while in the hospital or nursing home
- Efficient services to all involved medical personnel
Quality (AI) Care Partner
- Cloud-based technologies to perform efficient and prompt attention to basic care needs
- Evidence-based approach to care thru medical coordination of files
- Avoiding unnecessary medications and hospitalizations that so often afflict our older adult population
- Helping families understand our multi-layered, complex medical systems
- Enhancing independence and quality of care in our older adult population
- Transition families to hospice care at home
- IT platforms such Together-Clinic application to assist with weights, vitals and other measurable data measures useful clinicians
- Client advocacy
GeriEats Classes Offered
- Cooking with class
- Life and Balance
- Yoga and wellness
- Walk with purpose
- Reading/Arts Essentials
