Eldercare Mediation
 

For older adults and their families, mediation is the low-stress alternative for resolving medical, financial, care provider, and interpersonal issues.  Whether the subject is living arrangements, medical care, billing, consumer complaints, or estate planning, the process of mediation can turn the worst argument into a productive search for solutions.  It is a non-adversarial way to resolve just about any kind of dispute involving elder persons.

Mediators don’t take sides or decide outcomes.  They help people talk out their differences and negotiate their own mutually agreeable solutions.  Mediation responds to the human aspects of a situation; and, therefore, is more likely to succeed than more formal complaint proceedings.  The emphasis in the mediation process is on voluntary joint problem-solving and respect.  Mediation is informal, private and affordable.  The process is very flexible. Communication styles, location, and scheduling can be tailored to meet the special needs of older adults and their families.

A typical family challenge is deciding what living situation and level of care will assure the well-being of an aging mother or father.  Several people are likely to have an important stake in the decision - the older person, a spouse, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters.  This situation lends itself to low-stress, group problem-solving.  With the help of a skilled mediator, all of the people involved can meet at a convenient time and place, share perspectives, gather information,  examine alternatives, and develop a workable solution.  MediationWorks can also arrange telephone and e-mail mediation for geographically distant parties.