Unsure if Clear Guidance can help you?

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Clear Guidance offers both short and long term consulting services. For many family members, what is necessary and most valuable is to receive guidance around specific issues they are currently facing. 

Clear Guidance offers both in office consulting as well as on-site, phone or video conferencing meetings. 

Consultation can be a one-time event, ongoing coaching or can be provided on an as-needed basis. 

Common themes addressed in consultations include:

• Developing strategies for overcoming resistance and introducing supports

• Placement options

• Dealing with specific disease processes or behavioral challenges

• Navigating next steps of complex medical issues

• Selecting and introducing home care options

• Placement/relocation services

• Long term care insurance review

• Health care advocacy

• Family mediation/problem solving

• Issue resolution with service provider and/or facility

At times, either family members or fellow professionals can benefit from having a third party or objective assessment of a client or loved one. Care Management services include:

Initial Assessment

A holistic, comprehensive approach to uncovering medical history, current challenges, diagnoses, care needs, financial status, family dynamics and goals. An assessment is often helpful if you are unsure which level of care is most appropriate.

Recommendations

After the initial assessment, Clear Guidance will present our findings to you about your choices going forward. Our approach is to find a solution that provides the least restrictive environment and promotes the greatest degree of independence.

Implementation

Once recommendations have been made, family members or fellow professionals can often implement suggestions on their own. However, many find it invaluable to have a partner in this process who is familiar with the providers and/or facilities you are working with.

Ongoing Monitoring

If you live at a distance, are not a clinician or are unable to provide ongoing oversight yourself, Clear Guidance provides monitoring and management of our clients' medical appointments, care needs and overall well being.

Expressive Arts Therapy is an approach to psychotherapy or counseling that may use multiple forms of expression such as visual arts, dance/movement, drama, writing, and music, within the therapeutic process. 

What separates expressive arts therapies from other therapeutic practices is that it often focuses on the mind-body connection, active participation which requires the facilitator's ability to provide appropriate programming based on the individuals abilities and limitations and ultimately it encourages self expression. 

The overarching goal of expressive therapy at Clear Guidance is to build therapeutic relationships with our clients by engaging and interacting effectively, to improve the overall well-being and quality of life for each participant. Expressive arts therapy programs can help reduce stress, reduce isolation, increase cognitive stimulation, regulate emotions, promote self care practices, build self esteem, and even build communication skills, with or without the ability to communicate verbally. 

Expressive arts therapies are for everyone, there is no prerequisite or experience required.

Occupational Therapy helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). Some common occupational therapy interventions include helping people that are recovering from injuries to regain skills, preventing deconditioning, and providing supports for older adults experiencing physical and cognitive changes.

Occupational therapy services include:

• Individualized evaluations 
• Customized intervention to improve person's ability to perform daily activities 
• Outcomes evaluation to ensure goals are being met and/or adjust the intervention plan 

Our Engagement Specialists are skilled, educated  individuals who provide direct companionship and meaningful engagement for our clients. Our Engagement Specialists afford that essential break for care partners who need an hour or two to attend a personal appointment, run errands or just an opportunity to reenergize!  In addition to providing exceptional and sophisticated support, our Engagement Specialists are able to accommodate 1, 2 and 3 hour shifts.  

Service may include: 

• Provide stimulating and meaningful companionship and conversation 
• Schedule and accompany clients to medical and non-medical appointments 
• Meal preparation and partnership in dining
• Encourage and participate in physical activity
• Engage clients in games/puzzles 
• Assist with household maintenance or oversight
• Provide medication reminders
• Work with Expressive Therapist to create program for engagement 
• Escort client on outings in larger community (as appropriate) 
• Provide detailed reports to family members and/or responsible parties 
• Collaborate with professionals and advocate for clients' needs

Don't live in the Greater Boston or Southern New Hampshire area? Clear Guidance can provide many of its specialized services to clients anywhere in the continental United States or Canada. 

Providers with the specific expertise you are looking for are hard to find. While we cannot advise you on local resources, we can still be a valuable part of your care team. Please reach out to us to find out how.

Clear Guidance provides a series of Dementia Training Courses and Certifications for healthcare professionals, first responders and aging service providers.