© Generations Center, 1999
Generations Center clients include individuals, adult family members and professionals looking for answers to medical, emotional, social and safety issues for themselves or aging individuals. Services include:
Professional Geriatric Care Management provides guidance to the best community services, facilities, and trusted assistance -- while helping minimize family strife and stress.
Licensed counseling services are supportive and solution-focused for those experiencing depression, anxiety and other life stressors.
Health Care Planning services range from initiating difficult family discussions on physical and mental status changes to completion of Living Wills and Health Care Powers of Attorney. Our professional referral contacts include attorneys, home care agencies and financial resources to solve problems effectively.
We work closely with companies, community groups and professionals seeking workshops on trainings on topics ranging from Problem Behavior Management and Caregiver Self-Care to Healthcare Advocacy and Sandwich Generation Stress Management.
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Families are often stressed when medical crises or functional changes occur. Professional guidance from an experienced, professional care manager often saves money and time.
Finding the right resources can keep a person at home longer, or maximize opportunities for finding the right assisted living or nursing home facility. Our staff can assist with resource linkages to aides, finding services needed at home, and long term care planning. We can help select an assisted living or nursing facility and expedite facility placement in a crisis.
Comprehensive assessment begins the process. Guidance with medical issues, doctor visits, housing options, homecare, legal/financial resources, emotional well-being, companionship, or Alzheimer's services can be arranged. Communication with concerned family or guardians is a key component to relieve worry and guilt.
Whether you live locally or at a distance, we can help with short or long term planning, resources, and
decision-making.
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Providing care for a loved one can be extremely stressful -- particularly when juggling job, family, church or other demands on time. Likewise, individuals changing living arrangements or experiencing losses can be under considerable stress. We can help process these emotions in a healthy way by assisting in the search for balance and resolution. Counseling services are available at our office or in your home. We work with companies to provide employee support/educational groups on aging parent and life transition concerns.
The Sandwich Generation monthly education and support group is a free service facilitated by our director, Wendy Schaitberger, LCSW. It is designed to provide a supportive forum for caregivers experiencing stressors. Isolation and anxiety often compound the problems faced by those trying to juggle work, family, health and community responsibilities while providing care for an aging or chronically ill person. Please contact us if you would like more information.
Practical, solution-focused counseling relieves anxiety, stress, guilt and depression. Call us for a consult.
Living Wills and Health Care Powers of Attorney are critical planning tools to ensure that your wishes and those of your relative or guardian are respected by the health care system, hospitals, and doctors. Many adult children find it difficult to discuss these issues with their parents. At times, lack of these documents can cause emotionally difficult confrontations among family members when a health crisis arises. In the unfortunate circumstance of Alzheimer's Disease, it is often impossible to legally have people sign Powers of Attorney or Living Wills. This can lead to emotionally and financially catastrophic results for all concerned.
We are prepared to assist you with completion of Health Care Powers of Attorney or Living Wills, often saving expensive attorney fees. We are also experienced with the denial, resistance and counseling issues involved for family members and senior adults. Contact our office if these vital documents and family issues are of importance to you or your relative.
We work closely with attorneys and other professionals who are experienced with elder law issues, financial resources, durable powers of attorney, and wills.
Please contact The Generations Center for professional referrals in these vital legal and financial areas.
Aging, life transition, and care giving involve emotional and practical decisions. Information can address and reduce fears that accompany life's unknowns. Workshops are tailored to the interests of the group members.
We provide educational workshops and training for companies, allied professionals, facility staff, community organizations and clinicians. Workshops are lead by experienced and licensed professionals. Examples of commonly asked questions that arise with families and professionals are provided below.
Contact us to help plan your training, meeting or workshop.
Wendy Schaitberger, LCSW, founder of The Generations
Center, has over ten years of experience with Hospice, home health care, and
counseling. Wendy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Professional Geriatric
Care Manager and has extensive experience with family and individual
transition issues. She is credentialed by the National Association of
Professional Geriatric Care Managers as an Advanced Professional, and is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.
Wendy is a frequent speaker on issues confronting families related to aging loved ones, depression, anxiety, healthy aging, and life transition issues. She is the facilitator of The Sandwich Generation Caregiver Support and Education Group in Greensboro, NC and has published articles on advocacy and geriatric mental health issues. She is well versed in the financial, legal and psychosocial problems confronting families and individuals in a changing culture.
Educational credentials include:
MSW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BSW, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
BA, Duke University.
Won't Medicare take care of my parents - they worked hard and paid taxes all of their lives?
I want to provide care for my mother -- but why am I so irritable or angry all the time?
What are some key indicators of a decent nursing home?
I want to stay at home as long as I can -- how do I plan for that?
What are the alternatives to nursing home placement?
How do I balance my family, my job, my activities -- and my declining family member?
I don't want to be a burden on my children. If I decline -- what can I do?
If I can't speak for myself, who will decide what happens to me?
My staff needs to learn more about geriatric depression, dementia and problem behaviors. Who can provide training?
Last updated March 27, 2003.