The Professional Geriatric Care Manager’s Blog

A week in the Life of a Geriatric Care Manager

In the business of caring for Geriatrics, it goes without saying that our clients will more often than not be with us too short a time. Last week we lost our long time client and friend – R. Without more than one statement clearly making this anouncement I felt it. That old familiar pain when you lose someone special who has always been there. R was not my client but the client of my colleague, however I had visited with R on more than several occasions. Although he was not demanding and extremely pleasant to be around, R could be difficult with his Live in Care Giver. She was extremely dedicated to him in spite of this. This is simply a goodbye to “R” and acknowledgement that even if clients are not ours personally we know them, care for them and ultimately miss them when they are gone.