Betty Landreaux is a native New Orleanian
and career Social Worker who has brought her varied health
care experience from around the country into our two local
companies. She is co-founder and partner of Care Management
Solutions since 1991, as well as of Home Care Solutions since
2001.
Betty received her Master’s degree in Social Work in 1980 from Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in health care. She is a Louisiana Licensed
Clinical Social Worker and is a member of the National Academy of Certified Care Managers and the
National Association of Social Workers.
Following graduate training, Betty worked as a Social Worker at The Institute for
Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) in Houston, Texas, focusing on spinal cord and head injury
rehabilitation. She expanded her work in neurological and cardiac disabilities as a hospital social
worker, rehabilitation specialist and case manager for persons with cardiac and neurological
disabilities. In New Orleans, she was employed with Touro Infirmary and East Jefferson Hospital’s
RehabCare Services.
Betty is active in several community and health care agencies, including her long
service and past-president position on the Board of Directors of Louisiana Guardianship Services; the
Louisiana Geriatrics Society Board of Directors; the local Elderly Protective Services clinical
committees and related agency support positions.
Locally, Betty has served as Adjunct Professor with Tulane University’s School of
Social Work for 6 years, teaching a graduate course in gerontology. She is a frequent presenter to
professional and health care groups on the topics of caring for aging parents, long-term care
planning, and Alzheimer’s specialty care management.
On a national level, Betty regularly serves on working committees of our
professional association, the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM).
She has also assisted in developing the South Central Chapter of NAPGCM, and has chaired two clinical
conferences for the chapter.
Betty published an article, “Geriatric Care Management: Practicing an Ethics of
Care,” in the GCM Journal, Spring 1997. In December, 2004, Betty’s care management company was
presented the Entrepreneur Award by the Louisiana Geriatrics Society.
