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What Are Your Choices in Aging Life or GCM Client Software?

June 4, 2022

 

 

What are the Four Geriatric Care Management Databases?

 

There are only four significant aging life or GCM Software Choices ?  So the options for client software are slim. Jewel Code  and  My Junna  are two choices. Care Tree    I  Health Home  are two more options. Geriatric care managers and  ALCA managers who

have home care staffing themselves are fans of  Clear Care, which offers staffing if you also have private duty home care but is not really as user-friendly for care management needs with limited space to document & no care planning at all.

Which GCM Database Should you Choose – See my Newest Webinar?             

If you are a geriatric or aging life care manager or a private duty home care agency doing geriatric care management start up or still on paper- which GCM software choice should you use and why. Find what you need in your client database and check out each product to see if it has what you want. Join me for my newest free webinar on August 25, when  I will show zoom interview with all 4  four CEO’s asking them what are the features and benefits of their software and why their product stands out from their competition.

 

Here is a list of what a care management database should do for you- see what the CEO’s of the 4 GCM Software Products say they do

 

  • Track all client information                 
  • Create and update a care plan
  • Create a client activity log
  • Tracks billable hours
  • Document client activities
  • Interface with a calendar for client and care manager appointments
  • Track client referrals
  • Track guardianship information
  • Track medications
  • Reconcile medications
  • Create a client face sheet with all demographics.
  • Create a care community
  • Upload document and pictures
  • Do real-time updates
  • Be HIPPA compliant
  • Store historical client records
  • Create reports and export data
  • Create medication and text message reminders
  • Add custom patient field
  • digitalize patient paper records
  • go paperless
  • interface with care providers in the home via phone
  • Increase billing by making it easy to bill in the field
  • Patient portal
  • Have a calendar      

Learn more about Aging Life and Care Management Software Choices

Join me in my newest FREE Webinar

 

Smart TECH Solutions to Wire Your Care Management Business for Profit

WHEN  Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

WHAT TIME_2 PM-3:30 PM Pacific Standard Time

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Presented by Cathy Cress MSW – Handbook of Geriatric Care Management

 

We will Cover

Critical software programs that make care management information flow

  • with 1-1 interviews with CEO’s of 4 major care management software platforms
  • Caretree 
  • IHealth Home
  • My Junna
  • Jewel Code

What you need in a website

Why you need content marketing

  • With interview with Natasha Beauchamp  owner of Elder Pages on-Line where she develops both websites and content marketing for ALCA members and geriatric care managers

 

What are easy-to-use social media sites           

 

 

Sign -up

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Adult children, Aging, aging life business, Aging Life Care, aging life care manager, Aging technology, ALCA start-up business, Benefits of Geriatric Care Management Software, Benefits vs Features, billing, Black Entrepreneur RB, Black Entrepreneur RN, Black RN, Black Travel RN, Care Plan, case manager, Concierge aging clients, GCM Software, GCM Webinar, Geriatric Care Management Business, geriatric care manager, geriatric social worker, Gero Technology, IHealth Home, Jewel Code, Marketing copy, marketing geriatric care management, marketing to concierge clients, marketing to long distance adult children, marketing to the top 10$, Natasha Beauchamp, nurse care manager, patient advocate, Sales in geriatric care management, start-up, technology for GCM, Technology for Geriatric Care Managers, University of Maine School of Social Work, Webinar Tagged With: adding geriatric care management, aging family, aging life care manager, aging life or geriatric care manager, aging parent crisis, ALCA, ALCA technology, care manager technology, Caretree, GCM technology, geriatric care client data base, geriatric care management software, geriatric care management technology, geriatric care manager, geriatric care manager software, geriatric social worker, gero technology, IHealth Home, Jewel Code, My Junna, nurse advocate, nurse care manager, technology

What Are Your Choices in Aging Life or GCM Client Software?

August 4, 2021

 

Are you a geriatric care manager still using paper?

All Geriatric care manager or ALCA members should have the best GCM Software

choices. But Some care managers still function on paper  instead of using GCM database .That is a bad business decision. You need to give clients gold standard service to retain them and arming your care managers with the most user-friendly fully loaded client database makes their concierge care so much easier to deliver. This gives your business a more profitable a bottom line in running a business. So spending money on a client database makes your more  money.

What are the Four Geriatric Care Management Databases?

 

There are only four significant aging life or GCM Software Choices ?  So the options for client software are slim. Jewel Code  and  My Junna  are two choices. Care Tree    I  Health Home  are two more options. Geriatric care managers and  ALCA managers who

have home care staffing themselves are fans of  Clear Care, which offers staffing if you also have private duty home care but is not really as user-friendly for care management needs with limited space to document & no care planning at all.

Which GCM Database Should you Choose – See my Newest Webinar?             

If you are a geriatric or aging life care manager or a private duty home care agency doing geriatric care management start up or still on paper- which GCM software choice should you use and why. Find what you need in your client database and check out each product to see if it has what you want. Join me for my newest free webinar on August 25, when  I will show zoom interview with all 4  four CEO’s asking them what are the features and benefits of their software and why their product stands out from their competition.

 

Here is a list of what a care management database should do for you- see what the CEO’s of the 4 GCM Software Products say they do

 

  • Track all client information                 
  • Create and update a care plan
  • Create a client activity log
  • Tracks billable hours
  • Document client activities
  • Interface with a calendar for client and care manager appointments
  • Track client referrals
  • Track guardianship information
  • Track medications
  • Reconcile medications
  • Create a client face sheet with all demographics.
  • Create a care community
  • Upload document and pictures
  • Do real-time updates
  • Be HIPPA compliant
  • Store historical client records
  • Create reports and export data
  • Create medication and text message reminders
  • Add custom patient field
  • digitalize patient paper records
  • go paperless
  • interface with care providers in the home via phone
  • Increase billing by making it easy to bill in the field
  • Patient portal
  • Have a calendar      

Learn more about Aging Life and Care Management Software Choices

Join me in my newest FREE Webinar

 

Smart TECH Solutions to Wire Your Care Management Business for Profit

WHEN  Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

WHAT TIME_2 PM-3:30 PM Pacific Standard Time

SIGN UP

 

 

 

 

Presented by Cathy Cress MSW – Handbook of Geriatric Care Management

 

We will Cover

Critical software programs that make care management information flow

  • with 1-1 interviews with CEO’s of 4 major care management software platforms
  • Caretree 
  • IHealth Home
  • My Junna
  • Jewel Code

What you need in a website

Why you need content marketing

  • With interview with Natasha Beauchamp  owner of Elder Pages on-Line where she develops both websites and content marketing for ALCA members and geriatric care managers

 

What are easy-to-use social media sites           

 

 

Sign -up

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Adult children, Aging, aging life business, Aging Life Care, aging life care manager, Aging technology, ALCA start-up business, Benefits of Geriatric Care Management Software, Benefits vs Features, billing, Black Entrepreneur RB, Black Entrepreneur RN, Black RN, Black Travel RN, Care Plan, case manager, Concierge aging clients, GCM Software, GCM Webinar, Geriatric Care Management Business, geriatric care manager, geriatric social worker, Gero Technology, IHealth Home, Jewel Code, Marketing copy, marketing geriatric care management, marketing to concierge clients, marketing to long distance adult children, marketing to the top 10$, Natasha Beauchamp, nurse care manager, patient advocate, Sales in geriatric care management, start-up, technology for GCM, Technology for Geriatric Care Managers, University of Maine School of Social Work, Webinar Tagged With: adding geriatric care management, aging family, aging life care manager, aging life or geriatric care manager, aging parent crisis, ALCA, ALCA technology, care manager technology, Caretree, GCM technology, geriatric care client data base, geriatric care management software, geriatric care management technology, geriatric care manager, geriatric care manager software, geriatric social worker, gero technology, IHealth Home, Jewel Code, My Junna, nurse advocate, nurse care manager, technology

Are You an Entrepreneur or Non-Profit Wanting to Start a Geriatric Care Management Business?

June 15, 2021

Do you have a big enough Slice of the VIP Pie…?

If you are you are considering starting a for profit geriatric care management or ALCA business you must do a market study to find if you have enough VIP clients. Will you have a big  enough slice of the VIP pie to make that profit? That pie slice needs to have a big enough mixture of VIP older clients in the upper 10% who can afford GCM  or ALCA services and more important 4-6K a month for homecare.

Is This New GCM Service Feasible?

To start this feasibility study you need to determine the geographic footprint of the VIP market you wish to serve.
You should look at your entire potential service. For example, if you plan to serve the whole state of New Jersey or  the entire city of Princeton or the zip code 33023 in Hollywood, look at that Geographic area through the census.

You are searching for the section in your service area most likely to yield  VIP older clients in the upper 10% who can afford GCM  or ALCA services and more important 4-6K a month for homecare .

Market Sizing Can Help Find VIP Clients

Doing  a Market study will find out the number of older adults & population density within service area, the number of VIP households with income $500,000 as indicator of ability to pay and the number of residents over 75 as indicator of medically complex cases where 3 or more ADL’s cannot be done helps you understand if  enough VIP clients are in the area you choose for you to start a GCM or ALCA business

 

This VIP zip code search, in a market survey will insure that your Geriatric Care Management or ALCA agency  does not go bust and actually lose money. It has happened. Avoid this mistake.

Whether you are an entrepreneur wanting to start a Private Geriatric care management business or a non-profit agency wanding to add a for profit care management arm to raise money for the non profit you must do this market study as your first step down the path of investing in the oping of a GCM or ALCA business.

 

Join me in my newest FREE Webinar :

Sales – PR & Marketing to Find the VIP Client

When: Thursday, July 15th

Time: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM PST

 

SIGN UP 

 

YOU Will Learn…

  • Who Are the 4 types of VIP Clients.

 

  • Understand how to find VIP Concierge Clients- hot mapping & Market Studies

 

  • Learn to create or revise a Concierge Geriatric Care Management Strategic Marketing Plan

 

  • How to Sell Benefits Not Features to 5 Professional ALCA -GCM 3rd parties
    .

 

  • How to Use Free PR to Use to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients

 

REGISTER NOW

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Can You Give a Good Death without” Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light”?

March 9, 2021

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Dylan’s Thomas warns us in his poem

 

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at  close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

 Give a good death – not a cold terrifying dying of the light.

 

But today a care manager or geriatric social worker can help an older client go gentle into that good night, they do not have to burn and rage at the close of their day because you will be giving them as Atul Gawande suggests – a good death – not a cold terrifying dying of the light.

 

The terminal phase of any life-threatening illness is the time between diagnosis and the final decline when no cure or extension of life is in the offing. The individual confronts progressive decline and deterioration. Death is imminent. The care manager has a role.

The focus of doctors and patients now changes from attempting to cure the illness or prolong life to trying to provide relief from pain and to comfort the sufferer. Religious concerns such as what happens after someone passes away or how to handle the suffering at the end of life or how to give comfort to family members are the focus during this time as well as trying to tie up any loose ends.

Death to Rage About- Alone in the Hospital

But in the time of the plague, when  95.5 % of souls still die in the hospital and not at

home the care manager has a critical role with the family. High tech introduced by the care manager and at times the hospital with the care manager coordinating the family outsides and unable to touch their dying loved one – can make this death full of rage more gentle as the person passes into the night.

Care Manager tasks:

Make a referral to hospice if the family has not  already reached out

Partner with hospice and work under them

Monitor anticipatory grief needs

 Communicate that this is the end (and time to say goodbye)

 Assess spiritual needs and contact the appropriate religious-spiritual counselors to provide comfort and healing.

 Encourage family members to say The Four Things That Matter Most   “Please forgive me”, “I forgive you”, “Thank you”, and “I love you”.

Assess the need for paid caregivers to help the family or help family members share round the clock care among family and friends

 Support the family members in their need to grieve and have respite by continuing to assess for overload and burn out with a caregiver assessment tool 

Prepare family for the active phase of dying which can be loud and disturbing to someone who is not aware of what will occur

Bring in technology if death is alone in the hospital

 

Join me Thursday, March 11, and learn why End of Life Services Are a perfect new service for care managers 

Deliver a Good End of Life- Add Death and Dying to Your Care Management Agency

 

Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part

 In this 1 ½ -hour webinar you will learn how to

 

 

1.Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death

2. Help clients be active participants in their care

3.Give the family/caregiver tools to manage care

4 Provide family center care to caregiver and family

5 Choose the right support services through all stages of death

6.Introduce Hospice and Palliative care and work with their team

7 Use ALCA End of Life Benefits During COVID

8.Use  COVID -19  Family Coaching for GCM

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If you really want to add End of Life to your care management business sign up for this webinar now

 

Gwendolyn LAZO Harris MA, CT, Seniors at Home, San Francisco and Diane LeVan MA both highly expert care managers, created a seminal chapter “Palliative Care and End of Life Care Manager ” in my book Care Manager’s Working With the Aging Family  

 

 

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Aging Life or Care Management Intakes- Do You Know How to Make the Sale?

May 15, 2020

 

Do you know how to increase your slower inquiry calls during COVID-19?

It all starts

with having Covid-19 products, alongside your existing products and services. But the sale is made at the inquiry when the client calls you.

Especially during the pandemic do you know how to sell over the phone when you cannot yet go to all people’s homes? Even so, do you make this fatal and costly mistake with a client inquiry? When you get a request for information, over the phone, do you drive to the client’s home to do the intake- without first getting a deposit and contract first? How does this break your bank balance?

Aging Life care manager Sally Sanitze received an inquiry call and drove an hour to see the client. After spending two hours explaining her services, doing a geriatric assessment then asking for a deposit and signed contract the older gentleman said he could not afford her services and would not sign the contract at that time. The Aging Life care manager came up empty-handed.

How do you avoid traveling for two hours, spending 3 or more hours with a client, and not getting the case or making the sale?

You do the inquiry over the phone with a complimentary consultation, and then make the sale and ask for the contract and the deposit. You do not drive to the client’s home without first getting a signed contract deposit – first.

Here’s how You Do Two Call Intake

You do a two-call intake. The first inquiry call to your agency taken by a highly experienced staff in your office. That person must clearly understand the client problem, prompting the call to your agency and crucially finding out how it impacts both the client and the care providers.

They then offer an appointment to do a complimentary consultation for 30 minutes scheduled within 24 hours, made for the agency director.

What To Do in the Complementary Consultation

  • Do briefly outline how you are an expert at solving the problems (moving,keeping at home, COVID-19 safety in an elder’s home or home from the hospital with Covid-19)
  • Do a mini care plan showing exactly how you would solve the client ‘sand care providers problem outlined in the first inquiry call
  • Do make the sale by asking the client if they are ready to move forward with a contract and deposit
  • If they say yes send out a contract through Adobe and get a deposit through Pay Pal.

Join Me in My New Free Webinar

Conquer Care Management Sales- 5 Steps Close the Sale on COVID-19Products

 

Sales have severely declined in COVID_19. Learn how to increase your, clients,

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through all your products but especially the new Covid-19 and telehealth. Sell Successfully this and any GCM product in a 2-part intake. Closing the sale means the client signing your contract and giving you a deposit. Most care managers are untrained and terrified of this process. They are more terrified of going out of business with COVID 19

Learn the 5 steps to make and close a care management sale to get that contract signed, get a deposit, grow your business, bolster cash flow, make payroll, and stop you from being one of the 50% of new US businesses that fail after five years.

When?

Date Tuesday, June 23

  • What are Covid-19 GCM Services you can offer
  • How to make the sale in the inquiry call -with a complimentary consultation
  • How to ” Identify needs using client” challenge questions” to find the problem you need to solve to make the sale
  • How to present your offer by selling solutions to the problem with a mini care plan
  • How to manage objections if the caller has concerns about price or product
  •  How to close the sale with non-aggressive closing questions to have your contract signed, get a deposit, and grow your business with a new client
  • SIGN UP FOR FREE

 

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