Aging Matters offers a range of Psychological Treatment Services, including initial consultation with diagnostic assessment, ongoing individual psychotherapy, and as indicated, family therapy, group therapy, and behavioral management. We also offer complementary Clinical Support Services: such as quality control of the services we provide, and in-service training workshops for facility staff.
Direct Treatment Services
Our psychologists work with the full spectrum of psychiatric syndromes and adjustment reactions, including mild or major depressions, acute or chronic anxieties, dementias and milder memory impairments, and disruptive behavioral problems. As psychologists we take a person-centered approach: we focus on the client (not their symptoms alone), helping them cope with their underlying emotional & life-adjustment issues (e.g., around loss or change) that create or exacerbate their clinical symptoms.
Quality Care & Control
Aging Matters is committed to quality care and we offer a comprehensive quality control program. Our program is designed to ensure that both our clinical and facility clients receive the highest quality service, and that facility clients may rest assured that Aging Matters is providing top-notch treatment. We pride ourselves on close collaboration with healthcare colleagues and facility staff. And we support the quality of our own psychologists with clinical consultation & administrative oversight, including documentation reviews.
Staff In-Service Training
Aging Matters provides in-service training to support and enhance the work of staff at senior facilities, including direct caregiving staff, other clinicians and administrative staff (plus public education sessions for clients and families). We offer training on a wide range of topics, and we use a variety of creative training methods to cater to different learning styles. The topics that we can train on include: senior living issues, psychiatric syndromes & symptoms, psycho-social treatment approaches, and some fundamentals of staff development.
PAYMENT FOR Clinical SERVICES
Direct Treatment Services: Our clinical services are mostly reimbursed by health insurance, including Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurers. There is no cost to the facilities that we work with to provide these services. Depending on the patient's insurance, there may (or may not) be a per session co-pay and/or yearly deductible, which is billed to the patient or family directly.
Clinical Support Services: There is also no charge to facilities for the work we do to ensure our quality of care and to coordinate care with other clinicians and facility staff, nor do we charge for occasional in-service training focused on improving quality of care. (More extensive training programs and organization consulting are billed via contracts that are negotiated with facilities.)