Care Management is a privately paid service focusing exclusively on older adults and the disabled who can benefit from a range of professional services that enable them to stay in their current living environment.

Age Connections, Inc., works with clients living along the Wasatch Front of Utah (including Salt Lake City, Ogden, Bountiful, and Sandy) - many of whom have family living elsewhere. Some have family members who do live in the same community, but all of them benefit from Age Connections' extensive network of sources and contacts in every area of adult care.

Care Management can focus on one area, such as in-home health attendant needs, or it may encompass full services, from financial management to referrals to federal and state entitlement programs.

Care Management services are supervised and managed by: Margy M. Campbell, LCSW, CMC, CFP and Master Guardian, principal of Age Connections; Eve B. Larsen, Geriatric Care Manager, GCM; Roberta Wilcox, Geriatric Care Manager and Client Care Coordinator and Jennifer Eaves, SSW, Social Worker (See Staff for more information).

If you have an elderly parent, parents or a disabled family member living in Salt Lake City or along the Wasatch Front of Utah (from Ogden in the north to Sandy in the south), and distance or other circumstances make it difficult for you to provide the level of personal care or assistance they require, Age Connections offers you a comprehensive, reliable solution. Established under the direction of professional geriatric care manager, Margy M. Campbell, LCSW, CMC, CFP and Master Guardian, Age Connections may be the answer for you and your family.

Our private care management services are based on allowing the older adult or the disabled adult to "age in place" with dignity and safety through the use of in-home consultation and management.  As professionals with extensive contacts throughout the local communities, we assess clients' needs and draw upon the best resources available to meet those needs on a long-term basis, always evaluating changing needs and always keeping family members informed.

The Age Connections approach helps give older adults and the disabled the dignity they deserve, along with as much autonomy in life care choices as possible. With our help, they are able to continue to live independently, in their own living environment, knowing they have all the outside resources they need.

We accomplish this by putting all of the elements of adult caregiving together to address your family member's physical, social, environmental, emotional/cognitive and financial management needs while giving you peace of mind.

Physical Needs: Age Connections provides physician contacts; coordination of home health services, scheduling annual hearing, eye and dental exams; interviewing, screening and monitoring private in-home care providers; and monitoring nutritional needs of the aging person.

Social Needs: We provide regular in-person contacts that can center on reminiscing and remembering life experiences. We can also link individuals with volunteer services in the local and/or religious community.

Environmental Needs: We assist the person in keeping his or her living environment in good condition by identifying and supervising general property repairs and services such as plumbing, lawn care, housecleaning, etc. We can also recommend assistive devices to keep the person safe in their home. Realizing that pets are important companions, we also help schedule pet veterinarian appointments and help with other pet-related needs as needed.

Emotional/Cognitive Needs: We offer assessments for depression, adjustment and orientation; monitoring of medications if needed; arrangements for in-or out-of-home individual and/or group therapy if necessary; and counseling and emotional support when necessary.

Financial Management Needs: We can take on the responsibility of helping older adults pay bills, balance checkbooks, maintain financial records and process insurance claims if and when necessary. Many of our clients entrust us with this responsibility; you can count on confidentiality and a thoroughly ethical, fully documented approach.

1. Call us at 801-231-2018.
2. After answering your questions, and with your permission, we will make an appointment with the older adult or disabled adult, you and any other adult children or family members involved in care, and other professionals involved in assisting with care needs.
3. During the in-home meeting we discuss personal and home safety as well as social and environmental needs.
4. The older adult will receive a full physical, emotional/cognitive, social and environmental assessment. We accomplish this through personal meetings with the older or disabled adult, and identified friends and family members, and by accessing all records through physicians, home health agencies and allied care professionals.
5. We then develop a written plan of care and share it with the older or diabled adult, their adult children and identified family members and professionals who are directing life care needs. We discuss goals and identify private and community-based services best suited to the person's particular needs.
6. If the Age Connections care manager is in charge of implementing the plan of care, she/he accesses and puts the services into place and supervises the service staff.
7. Age Connections periodically reviews the plan of care. If any changes or adjustments are made, they are first reviewed with the older or disabled adult, adult child(ren) other family members and/or other professionals.
8. The older or disabled person's status, with written permission from that person, is discussed in writing or by phone with those who need or request the information. This is done on an as-needed basis.
9. If relocation to another residence is warranted in the initial or future plan of care, the care manager can assist in this process as directed by the older or disabled person or by others.