Eldercare Wiz

As in most things in life, one good connection leads to another. After grad school, her position as Crisis Clinician for Baystate Franklin Medical Center's ER in Greenfield led to Medical Social Work at Baystate VNA/Hospice. While working weekends on-call for the hospital’s social work & discharge planning department, she began her work in long-term care at the Anchorage Nursing Home in Shelburne Falls, MA.

At Anchorage, Liz's supervisors supported the elimination of the outdated nursing home "social services" position in favor of a clinical geriatric social work model. She used her advanced training to create a program of dignity, community and comfort from first day of admission to end of life. Eventually she agreed to be trained as their Licensed Administrator caring for her neighbors - more than 40 employees and 32 residents in total.

Liz combined her business and clinical skills to institute policy and systemic changes in the service of individualized quality care. After her financial, clinical and plant modernization goals were met, she moved on to the Center for Extended Care at Amherst as a financial consultant.

She opened her private practice started in 2013 and has been helping older adults and their families navigate the aging process ever since. 

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