Margaret Costello
Care Manager, Carolina Eldercare
Margaret Costello is a Registered Nurse who attended Catholic Medical Center in New York. In addition, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Health Care Services Administration from St. Johns University. Margaret is certified as an Occupational Health Nurse and as a Certified Case Manager. Margaret relocated from New York to North Carolina in 1993. Margaret has experience as a Community Alternatives Case Manager and as a discharge planner/case manager in a hospital setting along with long term care assessment experience. She enjoys working with seniors because they have experienced so much and we can all learn from them. They have lived during a time of great changes in the world and it is interesting to learn their experiences with these changes. Margaret enjoys history and getting first hand accounts from people who have been there living that history. Many of our seniors are the people that have laid the groundwork for so much that we have today and working with them and providing case management services is just a small way of saying "thanks" for what you have done for us!!
She has also worked in the home health field and was a nurse case manager for the New York City Police Department.
Margaret has been providing Eldercare case management services for several years and provides excellent assessment and recommendations with positive outcomes.
Becky Werts
Care Manager, Carolina Eldercare
Becky earned her Master's Degree in Counseling (Mental Health) and has worked in the field of Rehabilitation since 1983. She recently decided to hit the books again, completing a 1 year Program Certificate in "Case Management for the Aging Client" in March of 2005.
Since she has been working as a Care Manager, she has found that careful listening and evaluation are important starting points. She feels that some of our seniors are in desperate situations, and she believes that it is her responsibility to find resources capable of serving their needs. "The primary family members, who often live hundreds of miles away, want to know that their mother, father, or grandparent is well cared for," Becky says.
On the home front, Becky lives in Charlotte, NC, and is in the "sandwich generation" herself. She has two children, ages 12 and 16, and often finds herself running up and down the highway to see that her own parents are well. She is happily married to a Computer Database Administrator, "who has tolerated her well for twenty years now." She feels truly blessed by this family and by the opportunities that have come her way.
Lauren Watral
Lead Care Manager, Carolina Eldercare
Married for 22 years and the mother of three daughters, I am the program coordinator for Carolina Eldercare, Inc. founded in 2003. I completed my undergraduate degree at Duke University in 1981 and after being disillusioned in the business world, I returned to school and earned my masters degree in Social Work at the University of South Carolina in 1985. Upon relocating to Raleigh from Beaufort, SC where my husband was a Captain in the USMC, I began my social work career at the Alcoholism Treatment Center counseling alcoholics and drug addicts. Later, I joined the staff at Jewish Family Services where I started their geriatric care management services. Two years hence, when the children started coming along, I entered the School of Hard Knocks where I earned my SHM degree (Stay at Home Mom) until I reentered the work force and helped to begin Carolina Eldercare.
My personal interests include reading, playing the piano, crocheting, volunteering at the children's schools, and forever working out at the gym to fight the battle of the middle age bulge! I love the movies and my all time favorite is "Gone With The Wind" which I have seen at least a dozen times.
Live life to the fullest and dance like nobody's watching.
