We have created a network of service providers for elders that meet the standard of care that we would want for our own parents.

Jane Ogilvie
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Gulfport Florida

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Senior Solutions of Pinellas County  consultation service is based in central Florida. We provide services to individuals and businesses. Whether the client's needs are personal or business related, Senior Solutions is most interested in quality.

We strive to provide current, accurate information to assist the individual in decisions related to health problems, housing problems, care giver problems, and future need planning with regard to financial and legal preparedness. We attempt to save the individual and the care giver time, and reduce stress when important decisions must be made.

Consultation services are available to individuals in Pinellas County, Fl. and to out-of-state loved ones who may not be available to assist their Senior family member living here.

We understand the growing necessity of every business to address product and service issues, as their percentage of Senior customers increases. We recognize that a business's potential share of the Senior market is based on their preparedness and earnest effort to provide Seniors with quality products and services, and effective communication practices.

Consultation services are available to businesses located in or out of Florida.

Senior Solutions is owned and operated by Jane D. Ogilvie. Her nursing background in skilled care of the elderly and other elderly related positions including sales and marketing, have provided her with the "hands-on" experience one looks for in a Senior Care Consultant. Her knowledge is "first hand", which enables her to be both sensitive and realistic in her problem solving approach.

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Senior Solutions of Pinellas County's primary interest is in seeing that Seniors receive QUALITY care from service providers. Senior Solutions believes that a health care facility doesn't need to be extravagant in design, exquisitely furnished, or have a name that's recognized nationally to provide quality service.

Senior Solutions specializes in assessment of need for Seniors and provides information and referral in the areas of health care, financial preparedness, legal preparedness, future need planning, and other pertinent issues. We advocate for and on behalf of Seniors.

We encourage businesses to evaluate their performance as related to Senior customers. We provide consultation to assist businesses in the evaluation process, and offer suggestions which allow them to better serve Seniors needs, establish and maintain trust.

With 18 years of experience in geriatric health care, sales and marketing experience. Senior Solutions strives to promote those health facilities, and companies which do business in a socially conscientious, and responsible manner. Senior Solutions looks beyond the obvious to determine if residents or Senior clients/customers are treated with dignity and respect. Personal inspection, interview and assessment, and evaluation of current State survey reports is performed prior to any facility referral. Any professional or business which is referred, is equally evaluated to meet Senior Solutions standards.

Jane D. Ogilvie started her business after recognizing the difficulty seniors and their responsible parties had when faced with various age related problems. Her nursing background repeatedly exposed her to many who were faced with similar problems. She frequently witnessed near crisis situations which would begin with an unanticipated change in health status. Families would find themselves not only dealing with the health care concern itself, but legal and financial preparedness issues.

Jane noted that families experienced an extraordinary amount of stress. Loved ones were both stressed and frustrated as a result of not knowing how to resolve all of the issues they were facing. The hospitals would discharge to a nursing home for rehab., and then what? Loved ones knew nothing about where they were discharged to, how long they would be there, who would pay for it, what would happen if they couldn't afford it, where would they go if they couldn't go home, what is an ALF?

Lacking information and guidance from professionals, their situation would force them into taking advice from well meaning but oftentimes inadequately informed people. Having long ago changed out of her nursing shoes and put on those of her patients and their loved ones, it was decided someone needed to be available to call at times like these. The concept for Senior Solutions of Pinellas County was born.

Realizing that care facilities were a major player in senior issues, Jane set out to create a data base of all Assisted Living Facilities in Pinellas County. The next step was to pull state survey reports on the facilities to see how their inspections went. Finally, she approached many of the facilities to physically tour them, and to speak personally with those who owned and or managed them. By doing so, she was able to establish a countywide list of facilities she would have care for her own parents if Assisted Living was their best option. Having done the facility research, Jane believed she had just saved care givers not only a lot of time, but a lot of unnecessary stress.

Finding the best facilities to meet their needs though was just the beginning. Through networking at an Area Agency on Aging Better Living for Seniors Consortium meeting, Jane was fortunate to have met a financial planning company whose mission also was to protect seniors. Through them, she met Attorney John Staunton whose work was crucial in the development of the First Florida Pooled Trust - a trust fund for seniors and disabled adults.

We have interviewed attorneys, real estate agents, moving companies, home health care companies, specialized adaptive clothing providers, health care supply providers, nursing homes, funeral planners, long term care insurance providers, and physicians providing old-fashioned "house call" services. In the process we have created a network of service providers that meet the standard of care that we would want for our own parents.

These personal services are available to the individual, to care givers, and loved ones. We accept cases referred by attorneys, fiduciaries, clergy members, and all others who are concerned about the needs of seniors.

Jane is a member of the Area Agency on Aging Pinellas/Pasco Better Living for Seniors Consortium, The Guardian Association of Pinellas County, the National Older Women's League, and was a member of The Fl. Dept. of Elder Affairs Committee for Affordable Assisted Living. She is the current Vice President of the Gulfport Chamber of Commerce.

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