Person-Centeredness in Care is an Intimate Process
Its not a new term. It gets tossed around quite a bit from training manuals for direct care staff in care settings to outlines used for in-service sessions for care providing, coordinating and monitoring professionals. I, like others, tend to wonder if many are not quite grasping the reality of the concept or practice, at […]
Home Care Chronicles: “So When are We Going?”
Her name was Helen Newhouse, a client my former home care company served on a 24/7 basis until her June 2003 death. She did not live very far from my family so I visited her home often. Plus she loved a gentlemanly ride to her favorite restaurant to kind of show off to her friends. […]
The Value of Knowing Your Audience
Everyone in business has a target audience, If you operate an assisted living program perhaps your target is the frail elderly or those recovering from serious injury. If you operate an independent case management practice perhaps your target includes persons seeking addiction recovery programs or older adults with ongoing, critical care needs. If you operate […]
Group Homes are Viable but Require Special Success Ingredients
The group home is viable. This care business model has saved families, kept communities united and assisted entrepreneurs with a focus on compassion to find fulfillment in service to the needs of others. Regardless of the costly mistakes made by current and previous owners who allowed greed to turn into substandard care, regulatory compliance breakdown […]
Its Not Exploitation, its Good Business
Recently while working with a new group living program in New Mexico I made a marketing suggestion to the new owner, who is also new to the business of care. I advised her to send a letter to the friends, relatives, pastoral representative and physicians of each new resident alerting them that this person now […]
Is this “A Place for Mom” Practice Ethical?
A provider of care – absolutely frustrated – recently told us she had closed a group living home she previously operated in Oakland County, Michigan. She has since obtained three, (3) new properties and is serving multiple populations and busy marketing and managing her small assisted living empire. What bothers her is not the normal […]
When Small Scale Assisted Living is Done Right….
Sometimes you encounter that provider of care, especially in residential programs where elegance comes together with competence and functionality. Absolute Eldercare does that and if you knew its owner, Elena, you would understand where the commitment comes from. A relentless care zealot, she made the decision to create multiple programs that would serve multiple populations […]
You Cannot Be an Island in the Business of Care
An independent spirit is not always a bad thing. After all in some situations self-reliance can mean the difference between success and failure or life and death. However, we all know that is not the case in most relationships from friendships to parental attachments to marriage. Someone else has to be considered. The same is […]