WNY Care Connection - Laping, Surdej Associates
Laping, Surdej Associates

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Services may include but are not limited to:

Initial Evaluations

  • Thorough review of client’s preferences and needs in the home or institution
  • Work with your familys current health care, legal and/or financial professionals or provide referral, as needed, to public and private services/agencies and professionals
  • Evaluation of social supports and of the psychological, medical, social, financial, and environmental status of the older person
  • Consideration of options available to meet needs and preferences of the older person and the family, and cost benefit analysis of those options
  • Advocacy to make services responsive to patient needs
  • Recommendations regarding specific services includ, as necessary, selection of institutions best suited to the needs of the client
  • Completion of assessments and paperwork required for institutional admissions
  • Medical evaluation or on-going medical care in an office or in the home may be arranged as appropriate
  • Evaluation of use of entitlements including Medicare and Medicaid
  • Written evaluations may be sent, which include a summary of findings along with recommendations for addressing preferences and needs of the client and family
  • Assistance will be provided as requested in implementing recommendations
  • We typically see the older person in his or her familiar setting for an initial evaluation

Consultations

  • If families request single sessions to address specific issues, such sessions are held at locations convenient to all parties

On-going Monitoring

  • Follow up is done as requested by the client/family
  • Frequency of contacts depends upon assessment of need consistent with patient’s wishes, with sufficient frequency to monitor changes in status and respond to those changes with appropriate services
  • Periodic written reports evaluate progress and include additional suggestions to meet the client’s [changing] needs
  • When in-home services have been arranged, we represent the client to the provider to insure that the needs of the client are taken care of

Contact Us

Plaza Suites, 304
1207 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14209
Phone: (716) 884-3277

24 hour answering service
Fax: (716) 885-9127

Our Memberships

Affiliations National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers National Association Of Social Workers Network In Aging American Society On Aging