How we do it: Follow-Through
Sage Case Management works on many fronts for each client, and assures follow-through, where necessary and desired, from early diagnoses or functional difficulties to Last Days, plans for memorials, and household inventories.
We pride ourselves on our depth of concern and engagement, the quality of our advocacy in medical and sociolegal arenas, the quickness and quality of our responsiveness to client needs, and our interpretive, analytic, and synthetic abilities with regard to medical diagnoses, testing, treatments, and prognoses. We explore and explain alternative modalities.
We honor the wishes of client and family for discretion, for quiet, for privacy, and for companionable, compassionate assistance.
Whether called “eldercare,” senior care, parent care, geriatric care, or “ageing in place,” the help we provide to older adults will ever respect their rights to a life pursued with dignity and as much independence as can be mustered from day to day. For a family coping with chronic or degenerative illnesses in younger adults, the help we provide will always acknowledge that age is no exclusive determinant of wisdom, or insight. Never do we take the pronouncement of a “terminal” condition or evidence of significant decline (memory loss, dementia, loss of motor functions) as a mandate to curtail care, consultation, or engagement with friends and the local community.
Some may wish to make use of our services for a week’s respite care, or for those times when a person needs to make especially difficult transitions from one level of care to another. In general, however, we will be working on behalf of clients and their families all along the way, which allows us to understand and be guided by the hierarchy of values, tacit or explicit, that clients and families invoke when hard choices are to be made. One of our chief roles, from the start, is to make clear the nature and significance of choices at each new crossroads.