Greensboro Senior AdvisorWhat usually starts a senior care search in Greensboro?
A discharge from Moses Cone, Wesley Long, High Point Medical Center, Randolph Hospital or Annie Penn, a fall, a dementia diagnosis, a family caregiver at the end of the rope, or savings running low.
Each guide below begins at that moment and lists the steps in order, with the North Carolina rules and Triad phone numbers that apply.
Who can help us work out the next step for free?
Piedmont Triad Regional Council Area Agency on Aging ((336) 904-0300) gives free information and options counseling across all three counties, the county department of social services handles Medicaid and Special Assistance, and a senior advisor can walk through licensed options; none of them charges families.
If anyone is in danger, call 911. Suspected abuse or neglect of an adult goes to the county's Adult Protective Services: Guilford 336-641-3137, Randolph 336-683-8300, Rockingham 336-342-1394.
What if our situation is not here?
Start with what help is needed and when: list the daily tasks your parent can no longer do safely, note whether help is needed at night, and estimate what the budget can sustain for two or three years.
Those three answers usually narrow the choice to one or two North Carolina license types, and the directory then shows which licensed providers are near you.
Situations: every guide
A parent is being discharged from a Triad hospital. What now?
Step-by-step help for Greensboro-area families when a parent is discharged from Moses Cone, Wesley Long, High Point Medical Center, Randolph Hospital, Annie Penn or UNC Rockingham: rehab, home health, adult care homes and Medicare rules.
Open the guide →When a parent living alone is no longer safe
Signs a parent in Greensboro, High Point, Asheboro or Reidsville can no longer live alone safely, and the options in order: home care, adult day care, CAP/DA, PACE, family care homes and adult care homes.
Open the guide →After a dementia diagnosis: the first steps for Greensboro families
First steps after an Alzheimer's or dementia diagnosis for Greensboro, High Point and Asheboro families: legal papers, safety, support, when a special care unit is needed and how North Carolina regulates memory care.
Open the guide →When the family caregiver is running out of strength
Help for exhausted family caregivers in Greensboro, High Point, Asheboro and Reidsville: respite, adult day care, family caregiver support, CAP/DA respite, short-term stays and when a move is the right answer.
Open the guide →Savings are running low. What are the options?
What Greensboro-area families can do when a parent's savings for assisted living or home care are running out: Special Assistance, NC Medicaid, CAP/DA, VA pension, PACE and staying in place.
Open the guide →Caring for a Triad parent from another city or state
How adult children who live far from Greensboro, High Point, Asheboro or Reidsville can arrange and oversee care: local help, records you can check online, visits that count and when to move a parent closer.
Open the guide →A parent has fallen. What happens next?
What Greensboro, High Point and Asheboro families should do after an older parent falls: medical review, rehab and home health, home safety, when an adult care home makes sense, and how to read a facility's record on falls.
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