Joel Gottsacker, MSW, CCM, Owner
A longtime healthcare advocate, Joel Gottsacker has extensive experience providing geriatric social work services to older adults and their families. After 15 years working in state- and federally-funded home-based care management programs in the Detroit metropolitan area, Gottsacker founded GeriatRx with Amy Wood, a registered nurse, to provide case management services to any family in need of help caring for an older adult. A certified case manager, Gottsacker is a member of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers and the Case Management Society of America. Gottsacker's blog at GeriatRx.net offers tips for how to best access a variety of eldercare services and how to navigate the system to get the best care.
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