“If you want to walk faster, you walk alone. If you want to walk farther, you walk together.”
– African Proverb


Aging Life Care Management San Diego and Orange County

Why We Excel at What We Do

At A Hand To Hold, we put our heart into our work as Aging Life Care Managers ™ (the new term for geriatric care managers) and care coordinators in San Diego and Orange Counties. This means that we spend time getting to know our seniors; their histories, strengths, wishes, and challenges. We listen to, partner with, and guide, our geriatric care management clients using our expertise and years of experience in the senior care field.

Why Our Seniors and Their Families Love Us

Our goal as geriatric care managers is to support both our clients and their families; we strive to decrease everyone’s stress and anxiety levels while providing practical solutions to aging challenges. We focus on our client’s wellbeing as a whole, including their desire to be independent, and together we look at available options and co-create a personalized care plan that allows for optimal aging.

Our geriatric care managers are based out of Carlsbad but are able to assist seniors throughout San Diego and Orange Counties.

How We Can Bring You Peace of Mind

Our geriatric care managers provide one-time care consultations, family coaching packages, and transitional assistance which helps seniors to transfer safely from the hospital or skilled nursing setting back home. We also assist seniors with ongoing care management where we act as “step-in daughters”, coordinating and overseeing all aspects of a client’s health and wellbeing.

In addition, we offer various concierge in-home support services including personalized engagement activities that are tailored to each person’s unique needs for socializing with the additional goal of enhancing brain health as well as joy and happiness levels.

Please click on the menu above under “What We Do” to learn more about all of the ways A Hand to Hold can support you and your loved one.


 
Our Clients Say it Best

  • “You will find Erica to be professional in every respect, very knowledgeable of her duties and a warm and caring person. Her professional attributes are of the highest caliber. It was a joy to see my mother respond positively to Erica's warm and caring delivery of services and end of life care.”–C.B.

  • “Erica is the best of professionals- competent with heart. Her no-nonsense style masks a feeling approach that's rare in the geriatric world. She tackles problems creatively and was an important link in the caregiving chain that kept my mom afloat."–E.D.

  • “I found Erica to be skilled, caring, efficient, and effective, this was especially reassuring to me. As a former hospital administrator, it was good to know that a competent person was available should I need care.”–M.T.

Blog Article

New Blog Article by Guest Author Melissa Andrews of Paradise Living Centers

In our latest post, Melissa talks about just some of the many enjoyable ways seniors can use specific brain-stimulating activities to boost their memories and overall mental health.

A Hand to Hold Service Highlight

The “Is My Loved One Safe?” Package

Perfect for families who want to know if their loved one is safe in their current living situation ( in their home or senior care community settings). Safety assessments can be done when a senior begins to decline due to age, to prepare for aging-in-place in the future, or if a major change of condition has occurred such as recent surgery. We look holistically at the whole situation including the senior’s current health status, social support, the home setup itself, current challenges, medications, and more.

This package includes a discovery call, a home assessment by our geriatric care manager whose years of experience in the field of gerontology can help to pinpoint potential dangers, a comprehensive medical and social history review, a personalized action plan that can be put into place immediately, and a follow-up support and coaching call.

See our page on packages for more details by , then call us to book your initial call. We are now booking November appointments, so let’s get you booked a.s.a.p. so you can have a concrete plan and peace of mind!

Want to know more? Give us a call or email us at ahandtoholdsd@gmail.com – We look forward to speaking with you and helping you find solutions to your aging challenges.

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November Is National Family Caregiver’s Month

Family caregiving has reached epidemic proportions and will continue to do so as Baby Boomers age. In fact, approximately 43.5 million caregivers have provided unpaid care to an adult or child in the last 12 months. [National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. (2015). Caregiving in the U.S.]

At A Hand to Hold, we understand exactly what family caregivers go through and how hard it is, as we have each been one ourselves. We are here to encourage and help you. We can provide resources for care, respite, and social support. We can do elder-care consultations, family meeting facilitation, do home-safety checks and provide hands-on advocacy, all of which will make your caregiving journey much easier.

Please reach out to us by calling our direct number (760) 230-3039- we’d love to talk with you and help you to feel supported immediately.