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6 Ways to Thank Your Employees Taking On Call While you Celebrate the Holiday

July 1, 2019

We just passed Memorial Day, when we celebrate summer’s here with our friends, loved ones, family. But what about your employees this 4th of July coming up ?How will you thank the very people that power your business and profit and may be on call for you then ?

“Truly, from bosses I liked, anything was great because I appreciated that they thought of me. From “bad” bosses, anything would annoy me. You can’t make up for being a jerk with a token of any kind once a year.”

Ideas for inexpensive but really appreciated gifts for Care Managers and staff– cards to grocery stores or department stores, a gift certificate from Amazon all given with a nice personal handwritten note.

Staff Thank You Gifts All Year.

You need to bill 85% of your client hours. When a care manager does bill’s 85% write them a handwritten thank you note being grateful for having the amount of productivity to keep the business thriving. Handwriting is not a lost art. It sends a message that you take the time personally to really care what the employee does for your business.

2. Send a handwritten thank you note to each staff member during the year to applaud something they did. Saying thanks about something specific may be the ultimate reward. If you do it selectively yet authentically, a thank you note may be pinned above your employee’s desk for years. Create a formal letter recognizing your employee ’s achievement. Sign it and use the company’s seal to give the letter something extra. If you really want to do it right, frame it.

3. Name an employee of the month in your newsletter with their picture. Give them a gift to tell them you are grateful for their hard work. Create a formal letter recognizing your employee’s achievement. Sign the letter and use the company’s seal to give the letter something extra. If you really want to do it right, frame it too.

4. Have an employee summer picnic and give gifts to all employees for being such excellent care managers and for billing the 85% you need them to bill so you will all have employment.

5.Plan employee picnics, birthday parties, anniversary parties to thank them publicly throughout the year.

6. B.J Spitler , one of the first and I might say the greatest care managers, founded Age Concerns in San Diego in 1982. She gave gifts of massages to her care managers. A brilliant gift, a massage recognizes the tough emotional work that care manager’s do and their need to take care of themselves- which you as their employer are doing.

Give Thanks to Employees- Throughout the year.

How Catchy Copy Can Sign Up New Long Distance GCM Clients

June 1, 2019

Care managers need to create gold standard written copy to advertise their services to concierge customers but need a Wonder Woman spin that will make copy stand out from your competition. Here is a sample you may use for long distance care providers

“If you are a long distance family care provider for an elder, give yourself Wonder Woman as a powerful sister to help with the care of your aging family member.

Using a preeminent gold standard care manager is a preventative, prudent excellent choice for 3 reasons.

1. If there is a crisis, it is the safest choice to have the GCM solve it if you live long distance. In an urgent situation, the care manager can go to the hospital or emergency room.

2. This is more cost-effective than you getting on last-minute, expensive flights. You can still go but, like Wonder Woman, they can immediately be there to deal with the crisis and solve it. She is good insurance.

3. Before any crisis, you can have the GCM aka Wonder Woman will do an initial assessment and visit your older relative periodically. This is preventative because Wonder Woman can see and solve the problem before it becomes a health crisis that might put your loved one in the hospital.

Think of a care manager the way you do one of those blow-up beds. You can pump them up when you need in a crisis—perhaps avoid that crisis, and you yourself can sleep more soundly and with more peace of mind in your own bed.

Oh and she sometimes morphs into her alter ego- Superman who can who, as you know ” stands for truth justice and the American way ( and gold standard care ) ” and is ” faster than a speeding bullet”
Some of the things a geriatric care manager aka Wonder Woman and Superman can do for you are:

1. Save you money by helping keep your parent out of the hospital and you off emergency long-distance flights.

2.Facilitate a family discussion of needs, resources, and division of labor among friends family

3. Recommend ways to proactively prepare and plan for a parent’s possible health care crisis.

4. Work on family cooperation to formulate a realistic parent-care plan.

5.Assess the strengths and weaknesses of all of the potential caregivers

6. Help adult siblings resolve conflicts about care decisions.

7. Help siblings act together in the best interest of the parent

8.Decrease the tension between hometown and long distance siblings

9. Help the long-distance care provider deal with guilt and frustration that may result from their inability to provide more of the day-to-day care.

10.Locate the highest quality aging resources in your aging parents’ area quickly and without you having to do it

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Have You Sent A Valentine to Your Mom If She’s Your Financial Safety Net??

February 9, 2019

On Valentine’s Day it is not only grandchildren who should send valentines to Grandma but working mothers who should send heartfelt greetings to greeting. A recent study showed the majority of American households spend more than 10% of their household income on childcare — and a fifth of households more than a quarter of their income So if grandmothers offer free childcare, they are the financial safety net for young grandchildren.

They are often free caregivers for aging spouses, relieving the midlife daughters of that burden but inflicting mental and physical stress on themselves.

In fact AARP shows that approximately 43.5 million caregivers have provided unpaid care to an adult or child in 2013.In the same study, projected at $470 billion in 2013, the value of unpaid caregiving exceeded the value of paid home care and total Medicaid spending in the same year and nearly matched the value of the sales of the world’s largest company, Wal-Mart ($477 billion). [AARP Public Policy Institute. (2015). Valuing the Invaluable: 2015 Update.] Think of what is must be in 2019.

Grandmothers are not only that financial safety net but also an emotional safety net for spouses grandchildren. Younger siblings are happier and healthier when grandmother’s pitch in. Not only sibling get that boost from Grandma being there but Mom’s and Dads are less psychologically stressed if grandmother’s support their family taking over some of the multiple parental chores to raise young siblings.
And as Grandmother’s, AARP tells us what we know- it is sometimes the greatest joy of our lives and increases the quality of life of older people like nothing else can do
Even picking up after school, babysitting or helping in a garage sale make grandmothers a blessing. Making a missing baby book for the second third and fourth kid did who not get one, as parents were overwhelmed, is a huge support for parents and kids.

Grandmother’s help can be a key to making kids president. Both President Obama and President Clinton were raised in part by their grandmothers. Or take former Grandma in Chief, Michele Obama’s Mom, who watched over the Obama daughters as their parents raised healthy siblings while Mom and Dad and traveled the world.

So, working women with grandparent help send your Mom or Dad a card on Valentine’s Day and know we grandparents just adore those cards, handmade if possible, from those special Valentines who have our hearts- our grandchildren.

When they need your help as they age- remember what grandmother’s do for us. For now, send a valentine. Perhaps later look for a great aging life or geriatric care manager

Ways to Deliver Gold Standard Loving Care for Family Caregivers on Valentines Day

February 5, 2019

Think about valentines gifts for family caregivers. What can a geriatric care manager do for family caregivers for valentine’s -the day is about love. Can we count the ways family caregivers who care for an aging family member represent the heart and soul love of Valentines Day?

Here are some ideas

Loving gifts from your agency, including a small gift of chocolate, is a typical valentine treat but also comes in handy to relieve stress. Sending valentines to all of your family caregivers is a great idea acknowledging their caring while letting them know your agency cares about them. Suggesting some respite to the local family if that is possible or your agency offering a special package of reduced fee hours to get some respite maybe on valentine’s day itself would be a sweet gift.

Another gift is the simple act of thanking them for all they do at such a cost to themselves, which is rarely voiced. Another list of gifts including pampering caregivers and a way to find the right spa is something you could share with an adult sibling or adult children. AARP has its own terrific list with aromatherapy and bath essentials

To an aging parent caring for a spouse, they can experience most fraught-filled valentine’s day. The person who they gave all your heart to – at times for many decades- is there but not there in a way in many ways. So, suggesting to adult children that they might take taking the couple out for dinner or provide respite to the spouse and taking her to a special valentine’s brunch or event- can make a perfect gift. . This can be a soulful warm gift for someone spending time with the love of their life who is not able to share the romantic day anymore.

Give adult children ideas for caregiver gifts.. Pinterest has a whole board of gifts for caregivers for valentine’s day. Grandchildren can also make inexpensive valentines gifts if she is caring for grandpa

Be a gold standard care management agency on valentines day and show love for your family caregivers in any way you can.

How Catchy Copy Can Sign Up New Long Distance GCM Clients

January 30, 2019

Care managers need to create gold standard written copy to advertise their services to concierge customers , but need a Wonder Woman spin that will make copy stand out from your competition. Here is a sample you may use for long distance care providers

“If you are a long distance family care provider for an elder, give yourself Wonder Woman as a powerful sister to help with the care your aging family member.

Using a preeminent gold standard care manager is a preventative, prudent excellent choice for 3 reasons.

1. If there is a crisis, it is the safest choice to have the GCM solve it if you live long distance. In an urgent situation, the care manager can go to the hospital or emergency room.

3. Before any crisis, you can have the GCM aka Wonder Woman will do an initial assessment and visit your older relative periodically.This is preventative because Wonder Woman can see and solve the problem before it becomes a health crisis that might put your loved one in the hospital.

Oh and she sometimes morphs into her alter ego- Superman who can who, as you know ” stands for truth justice and the American way ( and gold standard care ” and is ” faster than a speeding bullet”
Some of the things a geriatric care manager aka Wonder Woman and Superman can do for you are: