Kahn HealthCare Consulting, LLC

Provides customized consultations. We develop care plans to meet the changing needs of older adults, families and loved ones dealing with cognitive changes and chronic health conditions.

Consultation are conducted in the privacy of one's home and/or virtually via computer to accommodate long-distance caregivers. Consultations are designed to enhance quality of life and may include but are not limited to:

  • Understanding normal aging, dementia and cognitive impairments
  • Providing practical tools for managing and enhancing activities of daily living
  • Helping families advocate for their loved one
  • Ways to enhance communication
  • Hiring caregivers and non-medical personnel
  • Enhancing safety and quality of life (at home, traveling, driving and long-distance)
  • Understanding housing options
  • Knowing when to contact an Elder Law Attorney
  • Managing important health, financial and insurance matters
  • Developing a family emergency plan

Kahn HealthCare Consulting, LLC., offers clients a safe and practical way to navigate the aging journey. The goal is to empower people and help them be better prepared for the challenges associated with aging.

Melissa brings her twenty plus years of professional health care experience and her own caregiver experience into her practice.

Before working with families, Melissa headed up a number of initiatives for:

The National Association of Social Workers

The Metropolitan Chicago Health Care Council

CVS pharmacy

U.S. Department of Labor/CAEL

The Council for Jewish Elderly

Melissa has also served on the advisory boards for Northwestern University Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Chicago and LA Caregiver Magazines.

Personal Health Care Passport

In 2006 Melissa wrote and self-published the The Personal Health Care Passport, a practical tool which was inspired by her mother and designed to help her manage her cancer and empower her at a time when she felt she had very little. Today, the book has been adapted to help other families and caregivers manage important health and medical information in order to improve quality of care for the ones they love.

The Personal Health Care Passport (PHCP) is designed to help families, caregivers and friends manage important personal health/medical information across the continuum.

  • The PHCP is designed to help people navigate the aging journey and foster better communication between loved-ones and members of the health care team

  • The PHCP is an easy to use template that organizes your health history, important medical updates, a way to manage medication and prepare for the road ahead

  • The PHCP is portable (like a passport) and can be brought to appointments, hospitalizations, visits to the emergency room and when traveling

  • The PHCP can help people chronicle vital updates and sort through information so they feel better prepared to make important decisions

  • The PHCP can be used to document questions and answers in order to minimize confusion and help family members relay information later

With an aging population many of us are living longer and are faced with the challenge of caring for loved ones. While caregiving can be an honor and a rewarding, it can also be a daunting and overwhelming experience. My hope is the PHCP will help you and your loved ones feel better prepared to navigate the aging journey and feel empowered to make important life decisions.
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Reviews


"The Personal Health Care Passport is an outstanding method of helping individuals and families outline and track essential medical information. It is an easy-to-use, practical and straight-forward option for organizing your life at a time when it is needed most."

Darby Morhardt, MSW, LCSW
Research Assistant Professor & Director of Education
Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease Center,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine


“The Personal Health Care Passport is an invaluable tool and a must have for all who want to ensure their loved-ones get the best care possible based on accurate information. All too often those we love and care for are unable to organize their medical information – now they can secure their vital information in one place.“

Dr. Charles Sophy
Medical Director
Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
(DCFS) & recurrent guest on The Today Show,
Good Morning America and Rachael Ray

To order your Personal Health Care Passport contact the author:

Melissa Kahn

E-mail: melissa@kahnhealthcare.com

or via USPS:

6007 N Sheridan Rd 19J
Chicago, IL 60660

773-960-8007

The cost is $12.00 per book plus tax, shipping and handling.