Senior Intervention

Goal  The goal of Senior Intervention is to improve the quality of life by understanding the needs, wants and desires of the senior as well as those that love and care for them. Making this stage of life deeply rewarding for the entire family.

Family Dynamics   It can be difficult for middle-aged adults and their elderly parents to find compromise. The senior may not feel change is necessary or even possible. Both may be unsure of what options are available. Often times they are unable to communicate effectively, as the role of parent and child has changed. The interventionist is a Recovery Coach, who can identify and suggest solutions for the dynamics of the family

Action Senior intervention is designed to ask the senior to take concrete steps to address and correct current problem areas. Additionally, to actively participate in preparing for changes in the future.

Senior Interventionists support, educate and encourage. No single solution is right for every family. Senior Intervention with a Recovery Coach from Motivate 4 Success, helps you achieve:
Clarity – Clearly understand what is actually happening and define where change is needed.  Define what the specific result everyone is committed to achieving.
Understand - what the senior wants and desires, understand what the family wants. Know the purpose for each area that is wanted.
Action – Determine what specific actions need to take place.  Develop concrete plans that can honestly be put into action.  A plan that can not be consistently maintained, will fail.

Get Honest – About the immediate future and the long term future.  The entire family needs to honestly look at what they can and cannot do.  What they are willing to do or not do and what services are available.  Everyone is on the same team, working together and planning together, long term decisions can be made putting an end to the emotional chaos.

The true goal of a Senior Intervention is to transform the quality of life. This can remain elusive if the interventionist has not properly educated and empowered both Senior and family. Committment to follow up and personal availability to the family and the senior during this period of change and building the relationship after an intervention is mandatory.  At Motivate 4 Success, our Recovery Coaches follow-up with the Senior and the family at 30/60/90 and 180 days after the intervention. 

The Process

Step one: Educate yourself and decide what is best for your Senior and you.
Call Motivate 4 Success Senior Intervention Hotline (949) 375-4750, and we will honestly discuss what can and cannot be done.  Our goal in the initial conversation is to determine what is happening now, and how to find a resolution.  We believe that giving the family the information that they need allows them to make the right decision.  Each situation is unique, as is each family dynamic and individual member.  With the right information, the right decisions can be made.
Step Two: Outline options for the senior as well as the family. The interventionist will outline specific options according to your unique needs. It is important to schedule at this time an opportunity to meet with the Senior, and learn what their wants, desires and needs are from their perspective.  (This may require more than a single meeting.)
 Step Three: Outline a plan of action
With the desires of the family, and the desires of the Seniors in hand, your Coach will help you to organize and develop a process for facilitating a professional, and effective intervention.  Depending on location and availability of all parties involved, this may be done over the phone and/or in person.
Step Four: Pre-intervention meeting
Your interventionist will fly or drive to your location for the pre-intervention meeting. This meeting is typically scheduled during the late afternoon or evening and lasts an average of three to four hours.
During this meeting, we talk about aging, issues of health, and change for the senior, family dynamics, and how everyone is affected. We discuss what the right choice for your family is and how the process of change will involve not only the senior but the family as well. Your coach will assist you in scripting statements to share with your Senior during the intervention. 
A Senior intervention is unique. The Coaches at Motivate 4 Success understand the power of Love, and will help you develop a way of articulating your wants, desires and dreams for the senior from love for one another.
Step Five: Intervention
Interventions are typically scheduled for the morning immediately following the pre-intervention meeting. The intervention usually takes about one to one-and-a-half hours. An intervention is a structured, solution-focused process that consist of a group of close friends, family members, co-workers, colleagues, spiritual advisors, etc., who come together in a caring and non-judgmental manner to present their observations and concerns regarding a Senior’s behavior/living condition.  The senior will be asked to take concrete immediate action. 
Step Six: Seniors and addiction
If the underlying problem is addiction, the Coaches first goal is to convince the Senior that there is an addiction problem.  Once he/she accepts help, he/she is immediately escorted to the appropriate treatment facility. Your Coach will work with the treatment staff in regards to the critical information gained during the intervention process so that treatment staff can get a jump-start on the assessment and treatment planning process.
Step Seven: Post-intervention Coaching for the Family
(It is highly recommended that a 6 week coaching program be considered)
After the intervention and regardless of the immediate result, our Recovery Coaches will schedule time for the immediate family to begin 2 sessions of  follow up Recovery Coaching.  Not only does the Senior need to learn change, but the family as well.  Unless the family chooses change, and actively participates in their own change, old behaviors will begin again. 
Step Eight: Post-intervention Coaching for Seniors
(It is highly recommended that a Structure/Compliance coaching program be considered)
Professional Recovery Coaching support immediately following the intervention is important and significantly increases the probability of long term success.   The goal of Senior Intervention is to improve the quality of life, requires time and a consistent trusted voice to help the Senior adjust to a different, sometimes new lifestyle.  Understanding the behavior patterns, finding interest and purpose, learning to make new friends requires time.  Our Senior Coaching programs devote the time, understanding and patience required to learn to live again.