FALLBROOK — A geriatric care manager represents a growing trend to help family caregivers provide care for loved ones living close by or far away. Care managers are also particularly useful in helping caregivers at home find the right services and cope with the responsibility.

Care managers can go a long way toward helping the family find better and more efficient ways of providing care for a loved one. The concept is simple.

The family hires a professional adviser to act as a guide through the maze of long-term care services and providers. The care manager has been there many times. Th...