ALCA Disaster Plan
Rural Elders Living next to City Greatest Risk to Perish In LA Fires
What happens when a wildfire reaches a city?
Multiple major wildfires, fanned by powerful seasonal winds, are burning through the Los Angeles area, leaving devastation in their wake.
The Eaton fire continues to burn in the Altadena area below a National Forest, which illustrates where a city like Altadena, next to Los Angeles National Forest, is a perfect firestorm when urban and wild regions overlap.
Read MoreDo LA Catastropic Fires Show Need for Disaster Plan
As of Today, six devastating fires surround Los Angeles, more than 100,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, and five people are dead. This newest catastrophic climate disaster should tell you that you need an agency climate disaster plan to prepare your aging clients and family members in your caseload for catastrophe so they can get to safety.
Read MoreHave you done disaster planning for your ALCA Care Manager Agency After Jim Boyd Lost Everything in the Paradise, CA fire?
Jim, Boyd, a new care manager, lost their home,truck belongings- and care management agency- all burned to the ground in the Paradise, California, fire in 2018. He was rescuing an elderly client whose house was in flames while Jim’s house and all his belongings were destroyed by the Camp Fire in 2018, the largest fire in California history. The fire killed 85 residents in Paradise, a retirement town in the middle of a forest. Care manager Carol Heape of Elder Options, located in the Sierras, reached out as an emergency sister agency and tried to help with calls from families Jim served. However, Jim could never recover and lost his care management practice and everything else.
Read MoreEmergency Go Binder -Family Caregivers Need for Global Warming
Check out The new 5th edition of my GCM Operations Manual with 5 new COVID-19 Coaching products to use with Telehealth to Assist Family Caregivers
Read MoreOmicron Gone Nuclear-Are you Marketing Your Agencies COVID-19 Safety ?
What is the best way to show the Covid -19 safety protocols of your GCM or homecare agency with new Omicron exploding COVID cases once again? You must overcome adult children’s hesitation to use homecare and GCM services. Why hesitation?
Read MoreStart-Up Geriatric Care Management Marketing and PR Checklist
If you are going to start an ALCA or Geriatric Care management business, here is a helpful start – a beginning of PR Marketing Checklist.
Read More8 Steps to Take to Avoid Midlife Sibling Mayhem on Thanksgiving
any holiday— can be a nightmare with adult siblings and the dysfunctional family. You have to show up, yet you prepare for the daggers or uppercuts – either wielded by you as a sibling.
Read MoreHOW TO MARKET YOUR TELEHEALTH SERVICE With An E- NEWSLETTER
How do you market a COVID-19 telehealth service? The best way during the pandemic that rages this fall is to sell your coronavirus product in an email marketing marketing campaign using an e-newsletter
Read MoreWhy You Need a Marketing Data Base Especailly Now with COVID?
The confluence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and seasonal influenza this fall and winter will result in considerable morbidity and mortality, stressing the health system. With more than 200 000 COVID-19–related deaths already, the US could see a second wave of disease later this year. I
Read MoreThe 2 Deadliest US Sites of COVID-19 Nursing Homes & Prisons
So what is the connection between the viral spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes and prisons- 6 feet? Prisoners and residents, in nursing homes, and prisons cannot social distance. Jails and prisons have human beings crammed together with no choice.
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