Geriatric care management (also known as "elder care management", "senior health care management" and "professional care management") is the process of planning and coordinating care of the elderly and others with physical and or mental impairments to meet their long term care needs, improve their quality of life, and maintain their independence for a long lime. It entails working with people of old age and their families in managing, rendering and referring various types of health and social care services. Senior care managers achieve this by combining a working knowledge of health and psychology, human development, family dynamics, public and private resources and funding sources, while advocating for their clients throughout the continuum of care. In some cases they may assist families of older and others with exact needs such as those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

Older parents are not always in the same geographic location as their children. Senior Care Managers serve as stand in providers when families cannot be around. The duties of a care manager consists: Conducting care-planning assessments to identify needs. Putting a care plan together and then executing that plan. Screening, arranging, and monitoring in-home help. Acting as a liaison to families at a distance. Assisting with moving their clients to or from different care settings. Reviewing financial, legal, or medical issues and referring clients to experts for same such as estate planning, and family trust experts. Providing crisis intervention. Providing client and family education. Visiting clients on a regular, routine basis to make sure they are safe, doing well, eating properly, and taking needed medications. Making necessary medical appointments and assuring client gets to them. Identifying agencies and/or social services and other programs that client can access. Monitoring the elder’s finances and paying bills. Elderly care or simply elder care is the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens. This broad term encompasses such services as assisted living, adult day care, long term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and In-Home care.