Hammond Julian Group
PROVEN STRATEGIC GUIDANCE
FOR ROUTINE & DIFFICULT CARE DECISIONS
What We Do
Our team provides proven strategic guidance to help individuals and families make routine and difficult care decisions. We understand that navigating the healthcare system can be overwhelming, which is why we offer a range of services to help you make informed decisions and advocate for your needs.
One area of our expertise is residential and assisted living placement. We understand that finding the right living arrangement for yourself or a loved one can be challenging, and we have the knowledge and experience to guide you through the process. Whether you need help finding a suitable facility or navigating the admission process, we’re here to help.
In addition to placement services, we also provide advocacy for private insurance, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and VA benefits. Our team is well-versed in the complexities of insurance and government programs, and we can help you understand your options and maximize your benefits.
Our Clients
The Hammond Julian Group team works with individuals and families who need help navigating the complex world of healthcare and care decisions. We specialize in providing strategic guidance for routine and difficult care decisions, and we offer a range of services to help our clients make informed decisions and advocate for their needs.
We work with clients who may be struggling to understand medical jargon or who need help coordinating care services. We also assist individuals and families who are facing difficult decisions about assisted living placement or who need help navigating insurance and government programs such as Medicare, Medi-Cal, and VA benefits.
Our team is experienced in providing support to clients who may be living out of state or who are otherwise unable to be present for their loved one’s care. We offer remote support services such as virtual meetings and detailed written reports to ensure that clients are always up to date on their loved one’s care. Overall, we work with clients who are facing a variety of challenges related to healthcare and care decisions. Our goal is to provide practical, viable solutions to help our clients make informed decisions and receive the best possible care and support.
Senior Care Planning Checklist – Download
Caring for a senior family member who has health conditions that require care-management services can be a challenging and overwhelming task. In addition to ensuring your loved one receives the appropriate medical care, caregivers also need to take care of various legal and financial matters.
The Senior Care Planning Checklist was created to help alleviate this burden, as well as to ensure that all necessary legal and financial arrangements are in place. This checklist provides critical information to help your family prepare for and manage the care of your loved one.
Who We Are
Our diversified staff have all been caregivers for their own family members. We have navigated the confusing, complex world of health care, insurance, Medicare, Medi-Cal, long-term care, palliative care and hospice care. We all learned the hard way—even Dr. Julian. Our decades of evidence-based experience will be a lifeline, saving you time, energy, money, and pain. We have chosen to help families on their exhausting road of healthcare-related issues so no one needs to feel alone when faced with these sometimes overwhelming challenges. We have your back and we are happy to hold your hand, if necessary, to get you through the hardship.
Kae Hammond and Dr. Caesar Julian identified a void of resource professionals for the general public facing an individual or family member’s extended health care needs and etablished the Hammond Julian Group offeriing their collective years of experience in health care services to a broader audience. The seasoned professionals helping dementia families now also will come to the rescue of our general population.
Our Team
Kae Hammond is a family coach, author, support group facilitator, and rich resource who specializes in advocating for and providing care management to care partners, caregivers, and their families. She founded the Dementia Help Center in 2009, and her highly acclaimed guidebook, “Pathways – A Guidebook for Dementia & Alzheimer’s Family Caregivers,” has earned five-star reviews on Amazon. Kae is also a certified consultant in the Teepa Snow Positive Approach to Care program, an ARPF Brain Longevity Specialist and certified NCCDP Dementia Practioner.
Kae’s work is recognized by caregivers and members of the medical and scientific communities as an outstanding resource that enhances people’s quality of life, builds relationships, connects communities, and makes a difference in the lives of those affected by Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
Dr Caesar Julian, M.D, a 25-year resident of Coachella Valley, dedicates his practice to Geriatric medicine. He is certified in Post Acute and Long-term Care.
He is an educator and experienced practician in complex medical cases. He has the background as an administrative officer in the US Air Force and certifier of hospice care. Dr. Julian is available on 24-hour notice.
Mary Lou Green is has a master’s degree holder in Science Education and a background in education and business ownership for 40 years. She is the Family Care Consultant and Community Liaison at the Dementia Help Center and the Hammond Julian Group, where she also uses her finely-honed research and coaching skills to support, educate, and coach family members who care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. Mary Lou is passionate about helping families find their way along this journey and building a caring network of support, and her #1 goal is to see those in her care smile again and thrive, not merely survive.
Lisa Stanford has a rich background of working with and caring for seniors and their families. After running the family business on El Paseo for 25 years, she became a family caregiver for her father who was diagnosed with dementia. She later began a second career as an activity coordinator at a large assisted living community, where she created and taught many physically and mentally enriching activities to residents. Lisa transitioned into community services and assisted families in choosing the best living situation for their needs, becoming a skilled mediator in times of crisis. Her knowledge of family dynamics, care, compassion, and empathetic nature are a welcome addition to the team.
Specific Needs?
Is staying at home no longer a viable option due to your medical needs?
We have more than a decade of experience in helping families find just the right care home. There are 150+ care community options in the Coachella Valley; we’ve done in-depth research on each one, including a 5-year review of the inspections conducted by the State of CA. Using our “Standards of Quality,” our team has personally toured properties and evaluated them using our rating system. Our testimonials reflect the trust and confidence our clients have in our performance.
Are you having trouble understanding what the doctors and hospital team are saying about the next-steps for care?
The Hammond Julian team promises an accessible and personal single point of contact to take care of you when you need help in making difficult care decisions. We develop practical, viable options for your unique situation. We’ll translate complicated medical jargon into understandable language.
Do you need help with navigating the complicated world of medical insurance, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and VA benefits?
Our decades of experience will help you understand how each of these agencies work and how to qualify for their services.
Are you being discharged from rehab and not ready or able to return home?
We know the procedures and regulations to keep you or your loved one in place, maintaining your care and rehab until it’s safe to proceed home.
How do I take care of my loved one if I don’t live in the Coachella Valley?
If your loved one still lives at home, we will be your eyes and ears to manage the caregivers coming in and out to be sure your loved one’s needs are met according to plan. We will oversee and assist in the seemingly endless care and service details you can’t provide yourself. If there is an emergency, we can be there immediately until you arrive.
If your loved one is living in an assisted living or memory care setting, we will visit your loved one to be sure they are receiving the care promised and we will write detailed reports of those visits. We will also take your loved one to doctor’s appointments and be in the room to write the details of the doctor’s assessment and report back to you either through a report and phone call.
Testimonials
Medicare, Medical Insurance & Rehabilitation Relocation
Thank you, Kae; we have valued your time! It’s a lot to navigate the choppy waters of rehab centers, Medicare and mom’s insurance; we would be really lost without your kind, experienced guidance.
~ Laura K & Beth W
Care Management and Placement
Quietly and confidently, Mary Lou listens with great interest. With her deep intuitive nature, she calmly suggests tools to help you cope. It could be a resource for help thru agencies she has thoroughly researched or even a phrase you can use to cope with a situation with your loved one. I truly feel that I have a very strong and caring safety net around me.
~ Nancy S.
Care Management and Placement
To say I’m grateful for Mary Lou and Kae would be an understatement. Sadly, both my parents have had dementia, but thankfully Kae and Mary Lou have been there every step of the way. When my mother was diagnosed, they were integral in helping us find her a new home in La Quinta. Their knowledge of the disease, the facilities in the Valley, and their compassion and empathy for all of us, made an impossibly heartbreaking situation if not easy, then tolerable. When my father was then diagnosed with dementia, I was living two hours away from them in Northern California. Mary Lou and Kae stepped up again with the same compassion and empathy and helped me find a new home for him. When my mother passed Kae and Mary Lou helped my father whenever he needed extra care like taking him to doctors’ appointments, haircuts, or just a visit from a familiar face. I eventually moved my father to a memory care facility closer to me in NorCal and Mary Lou went so far as to help me vet the facility I had chosen and helped my father pack his belongings for the move. To this day she still reaches out to him with phone calls and to me by text and email to check on how both of us are doing. If you need help with someone suffering from this terrible disease and don’t know where to turn, I can’t recommend these two wonderful women enough. They both have personal experience with it, having learned by dealing with their own loved ones who suffered with it, and their compassion is born from that experience. They truly care.
~ Brian G.
Care Management and Placement
Kae has been my brother Bob’s care manager for six years; she is our most trusted angel who supervises all his medical appointments, medicaiton management and regularly inter acts with the administrator the care home where Bob resides. She has done a yeoman’s job managing Bob’s complex care needs, overseeing his banking and providing us comprehensive documentation of his medical conditions and state of his daily life. My husband and I are in our mid-eighties and it’s not feasible for us to provide the services Kae manages for Bob. She’s our lifeline.
~Mary L.
FAQ
What’s involved in being a care manager for my loved one?
Each client and family have varying requirements; some services we provide include:
- Accompany your loved one to all medical appointments–doctor, dentist, podiatrist, optician, audiologist and write a detailed summary of the visit and their recommendations
- Arrange medical transport as necessary
- Work with the Pharmacy to manage medications and minimize costs
- Shop for personal supplies, clothing, groceries, and more
- Schedule grooming appointments (hair, manicures, pedicures); accompany when necessary
- Help with banking and other professional services
- Help with sorting and organizing the home and making it safe
My mother was in a hospital-affiliated rehab center and, after ten days, was being discharged home with no care or supervision; what do I do?
If mom still has Medicare days available (Medicare covers 100 days a calendar year*), contact her case manager at her present community to reach out to other independent rehab centers and secure her a bed for continued care and services. When a patient is not physically or medically capable of returning home, they cannot be forced out.
* You have the right to say that “They cannot return to their own home because no one will be there to take care of them.”
Even after conversations with their attending physician, I don’t understand my loved one’s diagnosis and the medical terms and prognosis. How can I plan for them?
If mom still has Medicare days available (Medicare covers 100 days a calendar year*), contact her case manager at her present community to reach out to other independent rehab centers and secure her a bed for continued care and services. When a patient is not physically or medically capable of returning home, they cannot be forced out.
* You have the right to say that “They cannot return to their own home because no one will be there to take care of them.”
My dad has been in the rehab center for three days, and the doctor has yet to see him or talk with me. What’s going on?
The attending physician assigned to your dad will have received medical information on your dad upon arrival and will have consulted with the nursing team within hours of your father’s admission. However, state law gives attending physicians 72 hours’ time to meet with newly admitted patients personally. So be assured, your father has not been ‘lost in the system.’ Don’t hesitate to work closely with his nursing team.
My dad served during the Vietnam war and I keep hitting road blocks helping him secure Aid & Attendance benefits. What can you do help?
The VA can be frustrating! We have years of experience in preparing A&A applications and successfully securing the financial benefits for families. During a phone call, we can determine what steps you might have missed or what additional qualifying data is needed.
How do you communicate with family members who live in multiple states or even other countries?
We are adept in using Zoom and Facetime to communicate with families in other time zones and know how to work effectively to arrange phone calls and answer questions or provide updates. We are also experienced at writing narratives and emails to describe what we are seeing so you feel you are with us.
How do you charge for your services?
Our fee schedule is available for review upon request for each specific service we offer.
Schedule a Call
Are you ready to get started and find the perfect living arrangement for yourself or a loved one? Our expertise in residential and assisted living placement can guide you through the process, from finding a suitable facility to navigating the admission process.
Call us now for assistance.
760-578-8513
75-270 Hwy. 111 Suite 204 Indian Wells, CA 92210
