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 […]
Procedural Management a Necessity in Private Duty Care
Unfortunately the way private duty home care is defined from place to place varies widely. Some states require licensure while others do not. Some require the daily involvement of a nurse if only for care planning while others do not. Some standards are pretty much universal. For example handling a client’s medications is often tied […]
Direct Care Worker Special: Maintain the Dignity of Those You Serve
Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines dignity as: “the quality or state of being worthy, honored or esteemed.” And all of us want to feel worthy or honored. This is especially true in our old-age. However, the feeling of being worthy may be seriously diminished when a person can no longer perform some of the regular activities […]
Why I am Not Super Quick to Unsubscribe
I recall our office receiving a phone call several years ago from an assisted living business in Michigan. It was a support staff worker telling us her boss asked her to help cut down on some of the junk mail they were receiving. So she was calling us since a postcard from our training company […]
I am a Different Kind of Blogger
Writing blog posts for my own interests and those of my companies is rewarding. When the focus is on customized training which helps polish care providers and reduce liability the benefits are really wide-ranging. I bring the same to those other companies and individuals for whom I write. Whether the subject is the importance […]
My Approach to Writing Adds to its Value
I have been writing since I was a very little boy. I recall Mrs. Franklin’s class in middle school which was the typing room but she also taught and stressed good grammar and spelling. For a while I was a bit obsessed with good communication and most assuredly I have brought that to my writing […]