Serving Portsmouth, Exeter, Dover and surrounding commmunities

Our Services: AgeQuest

Our top priority at AgeQuest is to help your loved one stay at home for as long as is safely possible. We can tailor a personalized solution uniquely designed to meet your family's needs. Our familiarity with local resources saves you time, and often money. Our compassionate understanding of the aging process saves you distress.

Our experienced staff is quite accustomed to working with seniors who are initially resistant to our services. With observant eyes and a gentle heart, we listen and make it clear that our goal is to help your loved one retain as much control and autonomy as possible.

Seniors quickly realize that we are their advocates
. We are their ally, not a threat.

Adult daughters and sons realize that we can
   • offer suggestions
   • smooth transitions
   • provide an objective viewpoint
   • save time, money, and distress


Give us a call at 603-334-6565 or email us at info@agequest.com. We'd be honored to help your family navigate the sometimes choppy waters of elder care.

Our Services include:

Information and Referral

We offer an initial complimentary consultation.  As we review your situation and concerns, we may find that there are other services or care options that are better suited to your needs. We are very familiar with the providers and support systems here in New Hampshire that help families in need. If you are calling about a loved one who lives outside our service area, we may refer you to colleagues who can help.

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Care Consultation

When making decisions about care for a loved one, the pace of decision making can be fast and furious. At AgeQuest, understand the process, and can act as a sounding board or coach. We help you articulate your questions and concerns and gather the information you need before making care decisions. We also can facilitate conversations where there may be a difference of opinion about where to start.  


Whether in planning or crisis mode, our clients have told us that an hour of consultation can easily save 8-10 hours of research and phone tag. We provide this service by phone or in our office. We can also make arrangements to meet you off site – at a hospital, nursing home, home or your workplace.

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Health Care Advocacy

Providing support for an older person in today’s fast-paced health care system can be a daunting experience. Our professional team can provide a comforting, knowledgeable presence in a variety of health care settings. We go with our clients to doctor visits, meet them in emergency rooms, and provide continuity through our visits to hospitals, nursing facilities and home.

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Assessment and Strategies

Assessment is the foundation of geriatric care management. Through this objective process, we work with you first to make sure we understand your questions and concerns. The scope of an assessment can be focused on a specific goal (such as helping with transition from hospital or nursing facility to home) or more comprehensive in nature. 

  
Our comprehensive assessment includes professional evaluation of: health status, functional abilities (personal care, cognitive skills, and home management abilities), home safety and suitability, resources (insurance, finances, friends/family), and preferences.

We summarize our findings and recommendations, providing options for plans to move forward and accomplish that goal.  Some clients choose to implement on their own, others ask us to take the lead.  

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Care Monitoring and Support

AgeQuest provides ongoing professional monitoring of individuals living in a variety of settings, including their own home, retirement communities, assisted living, residential care and nursing homes. This can be especially helpful when family members live out of town, or when a guardian or conservator is responsible for overseeing care.

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Geriatric Care Management

AgeQuest helps clients develop ongoing plans of care.  As we work together to develop the plan, we help clients understand provider options, costs, and where they might look for help if they are struggling to pay for care.

 

Ongoing care management may include making regular home or facility visits, making needed referrals, training caregivers, accompanying to health care appointments and maintaining close contact with family members.   

 

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Family Caregiver Education and Support

As part of our quest to develop savvy, confident consumers and compassionate, capable providers, AgeQuest offers a variety of educational programs.  Look for our offerings in our monthly e-newsletters, or request further information on particular programs of interest.


We are now offering "Making Sense of Memory Loss" - a six part series for family caregivers of individuals with early stage Alzheimer's disease or other dementia.  Classes are held weekly on Tuesdays from 4-6pm.

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"Thank goodness AgeQuest was here to help. They took the time to get to know us and gave us the information we needed to make wise choices. They really took the stress out of caring for Mom."