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Ten Warning Signs You Are Working With a Dysfunctional Family

November 3, 2022

Working with Dysfunctional Family

Ten Warning Signs you are Working with Dysfunctional Family represents critical information to share with long-distance caregivers before their holiday visit. Do you know them? They include contentiousness, anger, and cut off and all are listed below. These clinical issues give the visiting caregiver signs that they need to call a care manager and you the care manager the most challenging job of an aging professional. What you have to know is family system theory and be clinically skilled in entering this treacherous family system – to get care for an older person

1. Contentiousness – Old fights erupt; the siblings and parents get into arguments with one another about an old issue

2. Anger – Siblings and family members express physical anger, emotional abuse, financial abuse

3. Distancing & cut off – Some siblings or parents have nothing to do with family and may not speak to parents or siblings for long periods of time.

Ten Warning Signs You are Working with the  Dysfunctional Family – Fusion, Denial, Triangulation, Entitlement

4. Fusion – Siblings and family members, such as the mother and eldest daughter, blend into one another, For example, the daughter sounds, acts, and has the same prejudices as the mother. . Think of the media’s portrayal of Lindsay Lohan and her mother.

5. Denial – Adult siblings do not see a decline in a parent, do not face reality, and do not take care of parent if he or she needs care.                           

6. Triangulation – Tension between two family members or siblings causes one to enlist a third family member or sibling to avoid change For example, two adult sibling object to the cost of care of an aging parent. They gang up on the third adult sibling who thinks the cost of care is reasonable and justified.

7. Sense of Entitlement – Siblings who are accustomed to purchasing services need not personally solve their own, children’s siblings or parents’ problems. This lack of engagement leaves them, unprepared and unwilling in getting involved in solving family tribulations.

Ten Warning Signs You Are Working with a Dysfunctional Family – Narcissism, Needy Adult Siblings, Substance Abuse, and Cut Off

8. Narcissism – One or more siblings has an “it’s all about me” attitude and

other siblings resent this. The self-absorbed sibling either does not participate

9. Needy Adult Siblings – These adult siblings feel starved for affection and often seek affection from professionals and other people in their lives for compensation for the care they didn’t receive as children.

10 . Substance and Other Abuse – The family and siblings have a history of drug, alcohol, and/or child abuse.

If this fits you you and your aging parent needs care may need to contact a geriatric care manager.

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  • Pre-Holiday Social media campaigns to reach worried caregivers
  • Pre- Holiday-Materials about the warning signs that a parent needs help
  • Pre-Holiday Marketing to help you sign up families who might face a serious decline in aging parents
  • How to sell services to desperate post-holiday callers from Normal dysfunctional & long-distance family
  • How to use tools to contain holiday chaos & arrange care in festive family fright
  • How to move the family to New Year’s stability
  • Know The Ten Warning Signs you are working with a dysfunctional family and position Your Agency ahead of Care Managers who do not have great pre-holiday marketing campaigns and lack the clinical skills how to work with Adult Children and families during the chaotic aging family holiday visit when adult kids find their aging parents need care
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Starting an Aging Life Business- Should you Choose a Partnership ?

September 1, 2022

Should You Choose a Partnership to Start a Care Management Business?

Should you choose a partnership if you are starting an Aging Life or Geriatric Care Management business? Before you think of marketing your start-up, you need a legal entity. Business start-ups are not only tough but take a long, very specific to-do list. There are legal ways to start a business. Should you choose a partnership in the first place depends on market sizing and a competition survey. If it is a go you have to have a legal entity to operate in. One entity. Partnerships are like a marriage without sex. Should you go forward? What legal bucket fits your needs? What legal form fits your needs and is the least dangerous?

Partnerships- Good Bad or Ugly?

Should you choose a partnership? Forming a partnership can be good, bad, or ugly, like Janus the Greek God of doors, depending on the parties and circumstances involved. So open the right door

Should you choose a partnership?

Right Door to Partnership 

 Should you choose a partnership ?Partnerships are the simplest and least expensive of co-owned business arrangements. Additionally, businesses with multiple owners are more likely to survive longer than sole proprietorships, says Economist Brian Headd of the U.S. Small Business Administration

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  • Partners share the cost of a start-up.
  • They share responsibilities and work.
  • They share business risks and expenses.
  • The complementary skills and additional contacts of each partner can lead to the achievement of greater financial results together.
  • Partners can offer mutual support and motivation.
Should you choose a partnership?

Wrong door to Partnership

  • Partners in a general partnership are jointly and individually liable for the business activities of the other. If your partner skips town, you’ll be liable for all the debts, not just half of them.
  • They share any profits.
  • You do not have total control over the business. Decisions are shared, and differences of opinion can lead to disagreements, one partner buying out the other one, or even a dissolution of the union.
  • The wrong partner can negatively affect your reputation.
  • A friendship may not survive a partnership. Keep in mind John D. Rockefeller’s famous words: “A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.”
  • When things go wrong as in any new business if you blame each other you have no deep feelings for the person, like a marriage engenders and expresses in sex to help you make up

Should you choose a partnership?Before entering into a partnership, it would be best to first determine whether or not you are suitable for this type of arrangement and if so, to thoroughly investigate possible business partners.

This is an SBA example of a partnership agreement 

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Want all CEO’s GCM Software Pitch Their Product

June 10, 2022

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Last Day Sign-up Free Webinar -Find Concierge Clients Who Can Afford You

May 16, 2022

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How to Find Concierge Clients Who Can Afford You

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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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Presented by the Author of the Handbook of Geriatric Care Management

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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Find the VIP Concierge Client-Sign Up New Webinar-Sales and Marketing

April 18, 2022

Sign up for my New Webinar Sales and Marketing to Find the Concierge Client

Find the VIP Concierge Client. The target market for a private geriatric care management business is not the 65 million families who need care management services. Find the VIP Concierge Client in the much smaller subset of those families who can afford to hire a GCM or aging life care manager who can pay the $4000-6000 a month for home care and are willing to pay for the services that GCMs and can actually find their way to you.

How Do you Find the Concierge Client to sign up new VIP Clients Who Can Afford You?

Your marketing message must say your business:

  • offers concierge solutions to the grueling aging care decisions families and clients must make.
  •  offers expert professional assistance with the tough choices aging family members must make about elder housing, medical care, personal care, finances, end of life, and the myriad mind-boggling decisions they face.
  •  offers support to the aging client and the whole aging family and can transform the family to get care for the client 
  • offers support and care  to the caregiver to keep them from burnout
  • offers the exact product they will need to solve their problem like dementia care, moving an elder, quality of life, VIP care 
Find the VIP Concierge Client

But is this really the message to which VIPs or the upper 10% respond- add this?

  • you respond immediately to their needs as they expect
  • you offer community resources like private drivers, personal chefs 
  • you can make sure that they will be in a top-rated hospital with a VIP program that offers all the amenities they expect
  • You will arrange concierge services like massages and spa visits for family caregivers who are stressed by caregiving for their elder parents

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What we will cover

  • Why only top 10% can afford private pay care management.
  • 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 VIP copy and revise a Concierge Geriatric Care Management Strategic Marketing Plan

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