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May 16, 2022

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How to Find Concierge Clients Who Can Afford You

  • Why only the top 10% can afford private pay care management.
  • Who Are the 5 types of VIP/Concierge Clients? 
  • Why Long-Distance Family Caregiver’s family are VIP Clients
  • Sales Using Benefits Not Features to ALCA -GCM 3rd PARTIES
  • Understand how to find VIP Concierge Clients Do hot mapping & Market Studies
  • How to Use Free Public Relations ( PR) to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients
  • How to create or revise a Concierge Geriatric Care Management Strategic Marketing Plan

 

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The Handbook of Geriatric Care Management is called the bible of geriatric care management. It has been available since 1989 and is used as a textbook in gerontology classes all over the US. Asia and Europe.  The Fourth Edition is a comprehensive guide for geriatric care managers (GCMs) to help define duties and procedures for planning and care monitoring.The 5th edition is planned It is available from Jones and Bartlett

 

 

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Want To Start a Profitable New Geriatric Care Management Business?

May 13, 2022

Want to Start a new geriatric care management business?

A new geriatric care management business can be started by an RN, social worker, someone in the health field, or anyone with dreams to become an entrepreneur.

But what skills do you need? Your entrepreneurial care management dream must spring from the intersection of three streams: your passion, your competence, and market opportunity. To start a geriatric care management business, the adage to “know thyself” becomes critical. Are you passionate about geriatric care management? You will need passion to sustain you when the situation gets tough—which it does in all beginning businesses. You must have the core competence both to be a geriatric care manager (GCM) and to run a business. But good GCMs with no business acumen, which is often the case, frequently fail in business. 

Is Starting a New geriatric Care Management Business a Good Choice for You?

To start of new geriatric care management business you need market opportunity this is a business skill. In other words, are there enough people in the top 10% of the area plus third parties who will refer to you like elder law attorneys, concierge physicians, and unscale assisted living you serve to have a”market” to have sales and generate a profit? If very few older people in the upper 10% live in your services area, you may not be in the right place to start a new geriatric care management business. If 10 other GCMs are practicing in your town, the

An entrepreneur geriatric care management business?

competition may limit your own market opportunity.  You find out by doing a competition survey Finally, you need to assess why you want to start this type of business in the first place. Are you motivated by the financial gains? by community recognition? by a need to make a difference? 

In a New Geriatric Care Management Business

You Have To Know Cash Flow

An entrepreneur care management business owner must understand billing and cash flow.  This is another key business skill needed by a care manager. Without this knowledge, you will fail like 50% of new businesses do. Along with this, you have to understand how to bill 85% of your care manager’s time to stop cash flow from putting you out of the business. This leads to overall financial forecasting skills. When do you break even, when can you hire a new care manager and afford to stop being a solo practitioner who wears so many hats you are crushed by the weight.

 

A new geriatric care management business

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Most care managers have no business background because they are nurses, social workers, and health professionals without an MBA. Yet their business depends on cash flow, marketing opportunities, and financial skills to pay the bills

 

 

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Skills you will learn in My GCM Business Class 

  • GCM ALCA billing skills to develop a billing system that allows you to bill 85% of your time, control your cash flow, invoice promptly to make a profit
  • GCM financial forecasting skills to develop a 3-year financial forecast Excel spreadsheet to track your basic cash flow -profit and expenses and to track the number of clients and billable hours needed to break even make a profit, pay back loans, hire new staff, and take a salary yourself
  • GCM organizational design skills to create your business flow chart and job descriptions, and outline how power flows down your staff to deliver gold standard care    to clients
  • GCM marketing survey skills to pinpoint  market opportunity, your area’s upper 10% clients, and 3rd-party referrals to market, to make your business profitable
  • GCM competitive analysis skills  to do a competition survey set the fee per hour your market will bear for your services and gage your market opportunity and  gather information from each, to position your services vs your competition’s so clients will choose you
  • GCM timeline skills to identify and list (in a manageable, doable order), major tasks to complete before you open your business
  • GCM business planning skills to write a 13-part business plan to create a blueprint of measurable goals for your business’s financial success
  • GCM marketing skills to create a marketing plan to develop lead sources, conduct lead
  • An entrepreneur geriatric care management business
  • generation, launch social media, and conduct content marketing to gain new customers
  • GCM sales skills to position your agency to sell your menu of services
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Does a VIP Marketing Sales Plan and Transform Your Bottom Line?

May 11, 2022

 

A Marketing and Sales Plan to find VIP Clients Concierge Clients Will Make You a Profit

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You need a Marketing and Sales Plan to find VIP Concierge Clients. Transform your agency into a profitable service finding concierge clients for your care management agency 

Why- a geriatric care manager is a powerful health care concierge, just like the new concierge medical services. This is a steller selling point to potential GCM  clients who are in the top 10% income brackets.

Upper 10% Can Afford You Because Medicare Sadly Does Not Cover Long Term Care

These well-to-do  VIP Concierge clients can afford to pay privately for long-term care geriatric care management and private duty home care because they are financially in the upper 10% of the economy. Long-term care is not covered by Medicare, so only these wealthy Americans can pay for it.

Why is offering concierge services a great idea for this group of seniors? A geriatric care manager is a highly skilled professional who acts as a personal assistant to the aging family delivering the long term care services they need at the right time, the right place for the right level of care

What  Great Benefits You Bring To The Concierge Client

You offer highly personalized aging parent care. VIP Concierge clients can reach you at almost any time You build a deep relationship with the client and family.stock-photo-16832488-tense-couple-in-therapy-session.jpg As a GPS through elder care, the GCM helps them step by step through one of the hardest journeys of their life. A geriatric care manager’s highly personalized service meets all the needs of the aging family and the client. GCMs are like a concierge at a 5-star hotel there to serve the family by solving their caregiving problems and making elder care more seamless. But here is a deal-breaker, most care managers did not know they must have. You need a  marketing and sales background to do an intake and get the client in your services.   

 

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WHAT TIME_2 PM-3:30 PM Pacific Standard Time

What we will cover

  • Why only the top 10% can afford private pay care management
  • Why Long-Distance Care Providers are Concierge Clients
  • Who Are the 5 categories of VIP/Concierge Clients? 
  • Sales Using Benefits Not Features to ALCA -GCM 3rd PARTIES
  • Understand how to find VIP Concierge Clients By hot mapping & Market Studies
  • How to Use Free Public Relations ( PR) to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients
  • How to create or revise a Concierge Geriatric Care Management Strategic Marketing Plan

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Why Long Distance Care Providers Can Afford $$$ Long Term Care

May 9, 2022

long-distance care providers flying to aging parent emergency

Long-Distance Care Providers Are in Top 10 % – Can Afford Private Pay Long Term Care.

An excellent article in the New York Times about long-distance care providers shows that the majority of long-distance care providers are in the top 10% and can afford care managers and home care. Family caregivers in the lower 90% of the economy who live very close to aging loved ones – can render direct parent care but have less income to afford home care or care management. Why- family care providers who live near their aging parents statistically have only a high school education and thus cannot afford private pay long-term care.

Families at a Distance Highly Educated, Have Higher Incomes

The reason adult children at a distance, can afford private pay long-term care, cited by the NYT article, is long-distance care providers,  remain devoted to being their parent’s family caregivers, even at a large cost to them mentally and physically because of distance. But they are in the top 10% economically because they have college and professional degrees and thus are much more likely to live much farther from their parents because of their professional employment.

They are a highly educated group with 70% reporting a college degree or graduate school. They are quite affluent: 50% reported an income of $75,000 or much higher. Eighty-five percent owned their own home. The majority were working: 62% full-time and 18% part-time.

This means they can afford to private pay for long-term care, compared to those with high school education, in part because they have more job opportunities in faraway big cities or states. The high school graduate’s income is less than a college-educated caregiver therefore they can rarely afford home care or care management or private pay long-term care.

Long-Distance Care Providers Become Desperate to Get Help From Private Pay Long Term Care

Long-distance care providers are flying or driving to both visit and care for an aging family member. But these far-away family caregivers become exhausted as care needs increase and become desperate for a solution, which is a care management and home care. These long-distance providers adult children usually understand that their parents are deteriorating with age and are savvy enough that they have researched options and already found you on the web ( a reason to have a great website).

Families at a Distance Pay up to $8000 a year or more Traveling to Aging Parents

Those caregivers who live between 1 and 3 hours from the care recipient report spend an average of $386 per month; those who live more than 3 hours away report a monthly expenditure of $674.So Long Distance care providers spend between an additional $4632 and $ 8088 a year in care . A care manager can do a caregiver assessment of the long-distance caregiver, allowing you to help them with the stress and expense of constant emergency travel, (Read Assessing and Supporting the Family Caregiver in Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, 4th edition.)

Marketing Phrases for Concierge Care ClientsWhat Can Care Managers and Private Duty Home Care Do for Long Distance Care Providers?

Care Managers can bring them vital tools for better sibling and family communication like technology that they can use, to help aging families from a distance . Recommending Family dashboards and communication platforms like Slack, Google Chat, and Microsoft Teams, among others, allow their family care team to work in a cohesive way. You as the care manager can arrange private duty homecare so when the long-distance care provider visits they can be ” Just Family”.

When emergencies occur the care manager can be at the home or hospital immediately, and judge whether the hospitalization warrants an emergency trip to family or friend emergency flight, by keeping long-distance caregivers informed, thus reducing stress, unnecessary travel, and loss of time at work or actually losing jobs ( Working With Long Distance Families: Tools the Care Manager Can use) Care Managers Working With the Aging Family

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  • Why only the top 10% can afford private pay care management.
  • Why Long-Distance Care Providers Can Afford Care Management $ Home Care
  • Who Are the 5 types of VIP/Concierge Clients? 
  • Sales Using Benefits Not Features to ALCA -GCM 3rd PARTIES
  • Understand how to find VIP Concierge Clients Do hot mapping & Market Studies
  • How to Use Free Public Relations ( PR) to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients
  • How to create or revise a Concierge Geriatric Care Management Strategic Marketing Plan

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Video -Learn Business Skills to Start a Geriatric Care Management Business!

May 6, 2022

What  Business Skills Do You Have in Starting A Geriatric Care Management Agency?

Starting a Geriatric Care Management  Agency does not take simply clinical skills but also business skills. Only 3% of geriatric care managers now have business skills because most are in the health field, nurses, and social workers. So it takes business skills you would get in an MBA to start of GCM business. What are those skills and how do you get them without an MBA?

  • GCM ALCA billing skills to develop a billing system that allows you to bill 85% of your time, control your cash flow, and invoice promptly to make a profit
  • GCM financial forecasting skills to develop a 3-year financial forecast using an excel spreadsheet to track your basic profit and expenses and to track the number of clients and billable hours needed to break even make a profit, pay back loans, hire new staff, and take a salary yourself
  • GCM organizational design skills to create your business flow chart and job descriptions, and outline how power flows down your staff to deliver gold standard care to clients
  • GCM marketing survey skills to pinpoint your area’s upper 10% clients and 3rd-party referrals to market, to make your business profitable
  • GCM competitive analysis skills to set the fee per hour your market will bear for your services and to gather information from each, to position your services vs your competition’s so clients will choose you
  • GCM timeline skills to identify and list (in a manageable, doable order), majortasks to complete before you open your business
  • GCM business planning skills  to write a 13-part business plan to create a blueprint of measurable goals for your business’s financial success
  • GCM marketing skills to create a marketing plan to develop lead sources, conduct lead generation, launch social media, and conduct content marketing to gain new customers
  • GCM sales skills
  •  position your agency to sell your menu of services benefits to 3rd parties and clients through cold calling, 1-1 sales meetings, and inquiries, by knowing how to close the sale and sign the contract

If you do not have all or some of these skills, check out my  Online GCM Business Class which includes 10 modules  teaching you all these business skills to start your GCM Business including two modules on critical  financial management so you do not go under and lose your dream start-up

Includes MY Geriatric Care Management  Operations Manual and Forms Manual at no cost

  • LEARN MORE ABOUT LEARNING GCM BUSINESS SKILLS WITHOUT GETTING AN MBA 

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