Q4 Defined
Your Struggles

Ongoing Decline

As we age, maintaining our health becomes a greater challenge.  Our health is more precarious, we slow down and even some of the simplest tasks suddenly become difficult if not impossible.  We lose muscle strength, our vision changes, hearing diminishes, and our balance is compromised.  Doing the normal activities such as bathing, dressing, and making our own meals becomes harder and doing the things that give us joy can become a task instead.  These changes along with many others directly affect our quality of life.  Most of these changes occur over time and we assume nothing can be done to stop the progression or reverse the decline.   This is very often untrue…

Crisis

Without warning a health crisis may occur.  Suddenly you are thrust into a maze of physicians, hospitals, tests, treatments and new medications.  Understanding what is happening, why, and what choices you have can be daunting.  There are decisions to make, our loved one is very ill, and insurances insist patients go home before they have totally recovered.  Trying to plan for the return to home can be frightening and overwhelming.  Setting up follow-up appointments, getting medications, arranging for care is an exhausting, time-consuming experience.  These things consume you and adversely affect your quality of life.  It doesn’t have to be this way…

Dependence vs. Independence

Your loved one may be experiencing a loss of independence.  They may become confused or forgetful, unable to care for themselves and they may not be able to manage a household.  The thought of entering a nursing home leaves them fearful, hopeless, and helpless.  Often times the family feels overwhelmed and guilty. Understanding what choices there are and which one is the right one can be a challenging, yet essential task.  You are unsure what choice preserves autonomy and maximizes quality of life.  Nursing homes are not the only answer…   

Managing Care

Diseases and decline happen to us all and managing the complexities of them is challenging.  Often times there are multiple physicians ordering multiple tests and prescribing multiple medications.  We see a different physician for everything and one provider is unaware of what the other is doing.  Symptoms aren’t improving and answers are not forthcoming.  Our quality of life has deteriorated and we are frustrated.  There is a solution…