| Do you wonder...
Who Will Care for My Loved
One When I No Longer Can?
If a person in your family has a disability, do you...
- select, coordinate, and monitor services for them?
- advocate on their behalf to ensure quality services?
- play a key role in resolving crises that affect them?
- supplement their income from SSI or SSDI?
- ensure they have opportunities to socialize with other?
- provide them with regular companionship and support?
- remember them on birthdays and holidays?
- wonder who will do these things in the future if you
no longer can?
If you have a disability, do you….
- feel overwhelmed by the stress of managing your daily
life?
- worry about who will help you if something happens to
your primary caregivers of the family members who help you
now?
- hate feeling like a burden to your family?
- wish you had someone understanding and accessing government
benefits, community resources, quality medical care, and
appropriate housing?
- need someone to advocate for you with healthcare and
human service providers?
- worry about having enough money to live on, now and in
the future?
- worry about preserving current benefits?
- wish you had someone who could lend a listening ear and
emotional support when the challenges of living with a disability
seem overwhelming?
If You Answered Yes to Any of the Above Questions, PLAN Can
Help!
How Can PLAN Help?
 Providing
care for a relative with a mental illness, developmental disability,
or other disability can be difficult and unsettling. But a
deeper source of concern to families who have a member with
a disability relates to who will continue such care over the
disabled person's lifetime. The question "Who will care for
my loved one when I no longer can" is a nagging one that tugs
at the hearts and minds of families with a disabled loved
one.
People with disabilities themselves also worry about care,
both now and in the future. The stress of coping with a disability
of any kind can be exhausting and may leave little energy
or time to coordinate services, advocate effectively, or arrange
social and recreation outings for oneself. Those with disabilities
may depend on someone for assistance and wonder who can help
them if that person no longer can.
In these situations, PLAN (Planned Lifetime Assistance Network)
of Southwest Ohio can help. Although there are many organizations
that serve people with disabilities, families often fill in
gaps that exist in the public services people receive. PLAN's
objective is to step in where families do in terms of coordinating
care and assisting individuals over their lifetimes. PLAN's
aim is to become a sort of surrogate family member for people
with disabilities - a surrogate who has detailed planning
and background information and an established trusting relationship
with the person. From designing and implementing current and
future care plans to simply listening to people with disabilities
and their family members, PLAN creates peace of mind.
©2005 PLAN of Southwest Ohio, Inc.
11223 Cornell Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45242
(513)821-6111 or (513)496-1195 (fax)
E-Mail: planofsouthwestoh@fuse.net
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