In this episode of The Senior Soup Podcast, host Ryan Miner interviews his colleague, Christine Baeck, Ennoble Care's DMV executive director, about how Ennoble Care is revolutionizing home-based primary care and hospice services in Maryland and Northern Virginia. Ryan and Christine discuss Ennoble Care's personalized healthcare model, which provides compassionate care for older adults and adults with disabilities from the comfort of their homes.

Listeners will learn about the benefits of home-based primary care, behavioral health integration, and how Ennoble Care Maryland supports patients with chronic conditions. Christine and Ryan also highlight Ennoble Care's hospice services, which are now available in Northern Virginia and offer dignified end-of-life care.

Tune in to discover how Ennoble Care helps families navigate complex healthcare needs while accepting Medicare and commercial insurance plans, making quality care accessible to all.

Seabury Resources For Aging Community Relations Manager Jennifer Brown joined Raquel and Ryan on The Senior Soup Podcast to discuss geriatric care management, which is also known as Aging Life Care Management.

Founded in 1924 in Washington, D.C., Searbuy Resources began as a women’s retirement home with deep roots in the faith-based community. Next April, Seabury will celebrate its 100th birthday - and yes, they are throwing a big party!

At the beginning of the podcast, Jennifer discussed her background in the healthcare industry and her role as Seabury’s community relations manager.

Jennifer discussed the care management services that Seabury offers older adults, and she shared the appropriate time for someone to reach out to a care manager for help with their aging loved ones.

The care management field is relatively new, Jennifer explained. It started locally about 30 years ago and is a specialty area of licensed social workers who are available to assist older adults and their families with various care needs, social needs, and housing needs.

Care managers are hired to provide the same care and support that a next of kin would do for an older adult with no next of kin or a family far away.

Care managers develop care plans to connect older adults and their families with home care agencies, primary care physicians, specialists, therapists, elder law attorneys, daily money managers, house cleaning services, and so many other resources.

Aging life care managers also advocate for older adults, ensuring that their needs and safety are considered. They help mediate and arbitrate between family members who may have different opinions about the best course of action for an older adult.

Families can contact aging life care managers when an older adult's situation declines or if the extended family is having difficulty managing their loved one’s care.

Care managers' hourly rates run between $150 to $170.

Call Seabury Resources for Aging today at (202) 364-0020 if you or a loved one could benefit from the services an aging life care manager can provide.

The Senior Soup Podcast hosts Raquel Micit & Ryan Miner spoke with LifeSpan Network President Kevin Heffner about the organization's mission, membership, public policy advocacy in Maryland, COVID-19, and the organization's upcoming events.

This is episode 15 of The Senior Soup Podcast.

LifeSpan Network is the largest and most diverse senior care association in Maryland and Washington, D.C., with 350 institutional members that provide a wide variety of care services for older adults, including retirement communities, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, home care, hospice, and adult daycare.

LifeSpan Network’s job is to serve its association members’ needs so that they can more effectively and efficiently serve the needs of seniors in Maryland and Washington, D.C.

They serve their members through various mechanisms, including the Beacon Institute, LifeSpan’s educational foundation providing its members with educational services, classroom-based education, and conferences, namely its annual Ocean City, Maryland conference in late September.

Lifespan is also heavily involved in public policy advocacy and legislative outreach.

The organization’s lobbyist, Danna Kauffman, represents the members’ interests in Annapolis and Washington, D.C. The organization focuses on state legislation that impacts senior living, home care, and skilled nursing homes. It monitors legislation affecting its members, such as state minimum wage legislation and family medical leave. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Maryland’s senior care industry faced difficulty recruiting and retaining staff due to healthcare workers taking leave due to exposure to the virus. LifeSpan worked with state lawmakers to help healthcare workers having difficulty entering the senior care services industry.

Maryland has traditionally made it difficult to become a nursing assistant, requiring certification as a CNA and GNA.

LifeSpan is advocating for a bill to require certification only as a CNA. There is also a bill to reconstitute the Board of Nursing so that it can report directly to Maryland’s secretary of health, helping streamline the process for people to become certified as nursing assistants and help with certification recertification.