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Solve your care challenges with one of these packages

Caregiver Employee Benefit

Employers may not know how to support their caregiving employees. That’s why we offer both the Digital Care Advisor™ and personal care advisors to companies as an employee benefit. If you are interested in your employer providing this benefit to you, reach out to your HR representative and ask them to support you with a Ways & Wane benefit. Or reach out for more information. 

Beginning a Care Journey

Our care advisor defines needs and identifies practical, relational and logistical next steps to meet progressive care needs. Includes one month access to the Digital Care Advisor platform and a GoKit Medical Document Planner with the “Get it Done” coaching.

  • Perform a needs assessment
  • Provide conversational tools to discuss care needs with your loved one or family members
  • Review assets, legal paperwork and healthcare advance directives 
  • Provide a comparison matrix of typical living and day activity options
  • Recommend products to protect and keep track of your loved one
  • Identify local and on-line practical support systems for the family caregiver

$650

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After the Emergency Room

Whether you are managing a transition from a recent hospital stay or a long-term move out of state, our Care Advisor can organize all the critical details and help with the logistics required for a smooth transition. Includes a one month access to the Digital Care Advisor platform and a GoKit Medical Document Planner with the “Get it Done” coaching.

  • Perform a detailed needs assessment
  • Identify appropriate category for the next step living situation (home, rehab, senior living)
  • Organize transfer to new location
  • Assist with transferring medical records and establishing care with new physician, if needed
  • Transfer prescriptions
  • Reinstate health coverage in a new state or county
  • Identify and help organize delivery of safety measures in a new living situation (fall prevention, monitors, medication management, meals)

    $1,050

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    Paying for Care

    The goal is to identify all available private asset and public programs for which you are eligible before you have to dip into private spending. Includes one month access to the Digital Care Advisor platform and a GoKit Medical Document Planner with the “Get it Done” coaching, which organizes your older adult’s medical information and streamlines communication between you and the caregiver.

    • Perform a detailed needs assessment
    • Review private asset and self-funded options with family
    • Determine Medicaid qualification and appropriate programs
    • Determine veteran qualification and appropriate programs
    • Determine available care programs in the community
    • Identify sources for respite care 
    • Compile a list of asset protection groups and/or elder law attorneys
    • Identify, complete and submit necessary paperwork for care programs (up to two)

    $1,050

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    Hiring In-Home Care

    This allows families to set up the best help more quickly. Our Care Advisor assesses your older adult’s needs, creates a job description and screens the best agencies in your area. Our thorough expert process fast tracks your hiring and reduces your chance of hiring mistakes.

    The family makes the final hiring decision and provides on-going management of the caregiver. Includes one month access to the Digital Care Advisor platform and a GoKit Medical Document Planner with the “Get it Done” coaching, which organizes your older adult’s medical information and streamlines communication between you and the caregiver. 

    • Create an in-home care job description based on your unique situation
    • Identify highest-rated local agencies, adult day health care centers and other sources of support
    • Perform an in-depth screening of agencies and options based on your situation
    • Present a comparison matrix of the best in home care agencies and other sources of support in your area
    • Provide “Suggested Questions for In-Home Care Agencies”
    • Set up informational interviews with best agencies
    • Provide “Tips for Managing a Professional Caregiver”

    $1,050

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    Benefits Review

    Our Care Advisor will guide you to under-utilized plans and programs and help complete the essential forms and paperwork.

    Includes one month access to the Digital Care Advisor platform and a GoKit Medical Document Planner with the “Get it Done” coaching.

    • Perform a detailed needs assessment
    • Evaluate medical insurance and provide cost-saving recommendations 
    • Assist with the review or completion of advance directives and POLST forms
    • Compile a list of elder law attorneys
    • Provide conversational tools to discuss care needs with your loved one or family members

    $650

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    Medical Team Coordination

    Our Care Advisor will coordinate with the relevant medical personnel like doctors, visiting nurses, home health, occupational therapy, physical therapy and personal care companions. Includes a one month access to the Digital Care Advisor platform and a GoKit Medical Document Planner with the “Get it Done” coaching.

    • Facilitate completion of necessary paperwork so parties can communicate
    • Gather doctor, therapy and hospital reports
    • Set up meetings with medical team, therapists and family members
    • Clarify appropriate care team and their roles for next steps
    • Ensure family has care team contact information
    • Identify family caregiver training and safety devices to meet advancing care needs

    $850

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    GoKit Medical Document Planner

    With this beautiful, portable medical planner, you will have everything you need for your senior’s medical interactions, allowing you to calmly focus on their emotional and physical needs instead of frantically looking for paperwork.
    The GoKit includes the following templates.
    • Key Contact Information
    • Health-Related Contact Information
    • Medical History
    • Current Medicines & Supplements
    • Vaccination Information
    • Vitals
    • ​Doctor’s Visit Notes/Questions
    • ​Doctor’s Visit Surgery/Procedure
    • ​​In-Hospital Notes
    • ​Test Results
    • Hospital/Nursing Home Discharge Info
    • ​To-do List Template
    • ​Test Results
    • Pockets for receipts and advance directives
    There are three versions available:
    1. Portable Planner with Coaching
    Are you busy and at your best with an assistant? The GoKit with Coaching gives you manageable steps so you are sure to be successful.
    $97
    2. Portable Planner
    This option is perfect if you need a compact planner, are confident you’ll fill it out without support and don’t have time to print the pages and organize it.
    $49 

    3. Planner PDF
    This is a good DIY option for those that like to customize a binder cover. You will print the PDF on 8.5 x 11 pages to fit a 9 x 12 binder. (You provide the binder.)
    $15 
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    Digital Care Advisor

    The innovative Digital Care Advisor™ guides users through the eldercare maze one simple question at a time to arrive at a custom action plan. Offering personalized plans in each of five areas, Ways & Wane brings together the best of online information and templates. Users choose and easily build plans for:

    • Getting help, like personal care or specialized housing
    • Preparing documents, like a healthcare power of attorney or POLST
    • Keeping seniors safe, like fall prevention, medication dispensing and driving assessments
    • Choosing activities appropriate for a senior’s changing capabilities
    • Paying for long-term care

    $14.95/month

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    Personal Care Advisor

    Our Care Advisor can offer advice, direct the family to hidden resources or provide hands-on administrative and logistical help. Here are some examples:

    • Facilitate family conversations
    • Connect respite care options for the primary caregiver
    • Help find in-home caregivers
    • Provide transportation options
    • Source medical equipment
    • Advise on Medicare plan coverage
    • Arrange for meal delivery

    $95/hour

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