What is a geriatric care manager?

What is a geriatric care manager?

Karl Steinberg (Associate Medical Director, Sharp Mission Park Medical Group) gives expert video advice on: What is a geriatric care manager?; How do I find a geriatric care manager?; How do I find long-term care for a chronically ill parent? and more...

A geriatric care manager is a person who can assist in assessing a patient and helping to determine what would be the best level of care, what kinds of services might be needed and what the best way to pay for it might be. Typically it might be somebody with some nursing experience, some social work experience and a variety of other people who have had training in gerontology or things in that general category.