Aging well is a discipline
Aging care for gay men  ·  Marin and Palm Springs

Aging well is a discipline.

We teach it. We deliver it. We defend it. We defend you. Ipanema Life is aging care for gay men and the families and friends who love them.

Book a Care Planning Session Or attend a Family Education session
Coastal view of Rio de Janeiro, the neighborhood of Ipanema
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A view of Manila Bay
Manila, Philippines
Why Ipanema

Named for the place our caregivers come from.

Ipanema Life is named after the neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The name is the supply chain. We recruit caregivers from Brazil through institutional relationships with Brazilian universities we have been building for over a decade. Many of our caregivers are gay men.

Our clinical leadership comes from the Filipino nursing tradition, the same tradition that anchors the most respected nursing in American medicine. Brazil at the bedside, Manila in the chart. The two together are what aging gay male care actually requires, and what no other agency in our market can offer.

How our caregivers work
The window is now

Plan while you still can.

Good care planning requires the person being cared for to participate. To make decisions. To advocate for themselves. To absorb new information.

Cognitive capacity is the resource that good planning consumes, and that resource fades with the very thing you are planning for. Families who wait until they need care often discover they can no longer make the decisions that good care requires.

The window is now. It closes quietly. We help you use it.

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One
We Teach

Aging well is something you learn.

Most people are taught how to manage their money, their careers, their relationships. Almost no one is taught how to age. We teach a seven-module curriculum on cognitive decline, brain health, prevention science, belonging, the gay and aging experience, daily practice, and family planning.

Our Family Education Series is open to anyone supporting an aging gay man they love. Attendance is the moment most families realize how much more there is to know.

View the curriculum
Two
We Deliver

Concierge home care, built for the way you live.

In-home care. Medical home health. Health advocacy. Insurance navigation. Family education.

Delivered by a workforce of caregivers recruited and trained in Brazil, supervised by clinical leadership from the Filipino nursing tradition. Many of our caregivers are gay men. Serving Marin County and Palm Springs.

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Marin Headlands at dusk, fog rolling over the hills
Three
We Defend

The healthcare system is not built to save you. We are.

Insurance companies deny claims they will eventually pay, because delay is profitable. Hospitals discharge faster than is safe, because length of stay is a cost center. Agencies refuse HIV positive clients, because risk profiles are unfavorable. Discharge planners route patients to the facility that is convenient for the hospital, not the one that is right for the patient.

We have spent careers inside systems like these. We know how they work. We know how they fail.

Ipanema is in your corner.

How we advocate for you
Start here

The Care Planning Session.

Ninety minutes. Complimentary. We meet you, we listen, we produce a written care plan you can use whether you engage Ipanema or not.

It is the most useful thing we offer. It is also where most relationships with us begin.

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COMPLIMENTARY  ·  NINETY MINUTES  ·  NO COMMITMENT

Ipanema Circle

Preventive care, delivered in community.

Connection is medicine. Ipanema Circle is our membership community for gay men aging well. Heart health programs. Cognitive engagement. Intimate dinners. Shared learning.

The Circle treats loneliness as the clinical issue it is.

Social $75 / month
Curated $150 / month
Intimate $250 / month
Bespoke $500 / month
Learn about Ipanema Circle
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