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Solo Agers Are Vulnerable to Social isolation

March 5, 2023

 

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Solo agers are vulnerable to social isolation and mental health problems, particularly if they lack close family or friendship ties.

Also, known as Elder Orphans, Solo Agers represent about 22% of older adults in the United States. Solo agers are vulnerable to social isolation or are at risk of doing so in the future, according to a 2016 study. “This is an often overlooked, poorly understood group that needs more attention from the medical community,” said Maria Torroella Carney, the study’s lead author, and chief of geriatric and palliative medicine at Northwell Health in New York. Solo agers are vulnerable to social isolation, according to a recently released survey of 500 people who belong to the Elder Orphan Facebook Group, with 8,500 members. Seniors living alone, being unmarried, and not having family or friends nearby are more often lonely and more likely to be depressed and have a poor quality of life. In the study understanding older adults who are aging alone 45% reported being sad and 52% reported being lonely.

Because adults with children may effectively be solo if their adult children live far away or they have a child with a disability who can’t care for them, or they are estranged, more aging adults are looking elsewhere for support to increase their quality of life. 

Solo agers are vulnerable to social isolation although loneliness is a serious concern as all ages are found out during COVID. During the epidemic loneliness, isolation, and depression were experienced by everyone including kids who could not go to school. Seniors experience this all the time. Social isolation is associated with a multitude of problems, such as high blood pressure, insomnia, depression, and cognitive decline. If you lose the ability to drive, develop mobility issues, or live far from friends and family, Solo Agers may have very limited social interaction while aging in place. this a poor quality of life

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Geriatric Care Managers can bring socialization, increase quality of life and so much more to Solo Agers.

Increasing Quality of Life socialization and networks of friends can help solo agers who are lonely. They can also help Solo Agers who are planning their aging plan to increase socialization to avoid pitfalls that so many seniors face in retirement- loneliness, isolation, and depression. The great thing about Solo Agers is that they are planning their aging, are highly educated and have the income for care managers, and can afford private care aging without Medicare covering long-term care

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My New Speakers Bureau-How To Reach Adult Children &Get Free PR

February 22, 2023

Use Speakers Bureau to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients 

Find adult children in your area using Free PR Through a Speaker’s Bureau. Creating a Speakers Bureau is the best way to find worried, sometimes desperate adult children who are wondering how to approach their failing and frail adult parents who are both wealthy and ignore their children’s pleas to get care.

 

 

 

 

Speakers Bureau to Find Adult Children

We have done all these for you in our new Speakers Bureau Package.

To find these adult children you begin  to create a Speaker’s Bureau by creating 6 Hot Topics, like “Handling the Stress of Caregiving”, and “When Siblings are not doing their Share.” ” When a Parent Must Be in a Nursing Home” – “Warning SignsWhenYourParent Needs Care” “When You are Stuck in the Sandwich Generation” and ” Bringing Back Joy Improving Senior’s Quality of Life” We have done all these for you in our new Speakers Bureau Package.

Tasha Beauchamp, an Aging Life Care Webmaster, Research Scientist owner of Elder Pages Online, LLC  had this tip in an ALCA blog  about in-person presentations 

“You provide enough information to demonstrate your expertise, but as someone mentioned already, not enough detail that you are giving away the store.  One way to get an insight into what people are interested in and will attend a speakers Bureau presentation is to look at the top eldercare-related searches on Google compiled by the Pew Internet Project:” according to Tasha Beauchamp, Aging Life Webmaster, and Research Scientist. Beauchamp says  Handling the Stress is Caregiving is at the top of the list as is paying for caregiving, which is included in When Your Parent Needs to be in a Nursing Home.

 

Find adult children who need care management

Get my new Speakers Bureau Package

Marketing care management to family caregivers? Wondering how to use free public relations to locate adult children in your community? Want marketing tools that will grow your business? The new Speakers Bureau Package has it all. Six pre-made presentations with handouts, a 20-minute presentation that covers major pain points and pain relief for adult children and family caregivers that will really engage your audience. The package contains complete directions & power points, and sell sheets to reach local service clubs like the rotary, women’s clubs, EAP, and musical societies drawing from the upper 10% of midlife members always looking for good speakers. Plus, a 30-minute free minute consultation with Cathy Cress MSW, to help set this up.

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Geriatric Care Management Business?Want to Start one?

February 7, 2023

Want to Start a New Geriatric Care Management Business?

 A care management business can be started by an RN, a 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 care management business you need market opportunity, which 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

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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 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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Billing for new geriatric care management business

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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  • 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
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My New Speakers Bureau-How To Reach Adult Children &Get Free PR

January 31, 2023

Use Speakers Bureau to Find Adult Children of VIP Clients 

Find adult children in your area using Free PR Through a Speaker’s Bureau. Creating a Speakers Bureau is the best way to find worried, sometimes desperate adult children who are wondering how to approach their failing and frail adult parents who are both wealthy and ignore their children’s pleas to get care.

 

 

 

 

Speakers Bureau to Find Adult Children

To find these adult children you begin  to create a Speaker’s Bureau by creating 6 Hot Topics, like “Handling the Stress of Caregiving”, and “When Siblings are not doing their Share.” ” When a Parent Must Be in a Nursing Home” – “Warning SignsWhenYourParent Needs Care” “When You are Stuck in the Sandwich Generation” and ” Bringing Back Joy Improving Senior’s Quality of Life” We have done all these for you in our new Speakers Bureau Package.

Tasha Beauchamp, an Aging Life Care Webmaster, Research Scientist owner of Elder Pages Online, LLC  had this tip in an ALCA blog  about in-person presentations 

“You provide enough information to demonstrate your expertise, but as someone mentioned already, not enough detail that you are giving away the store.  One way to get an insight into what people are interested in and will attend a speakers Bureau presentation is to look at the top eldercare-related searches on Google compiled by the Pew Internet Project:” according to Tasha Beauchamp, Aging Life Webmaster and Research Scientist. Beauchamp says  Handling the Stress is Caregiving is at the top of the list as is paying for caregiving, which is included in When Your Parent Needs to be in a Nursing Home

 

Find adult children who need care management

Get my new Speakers Bureau Package

Marketing care management to family caregivers? Wondering how to use free public relations to locate adult children in your community? Want marketing tools that will grow your business? The new Speakers Bureau Package has it all. Six pre-made presentations with handouts, a 20-minute presentation that covers major pain points and pain relief for adult children and family caregivers that will really engage your audience. The package contains complete directions & power points, and sell sheets to reach local service clubs like the rotary, women’s clubs, EAP, and musical societies drawing from the upper 10% of midlife members always looking for good speakers. Plus, a 30-minute free minute consultation with Cathy Cress MSW, to help set this up.

Find Out More 

 

 

 

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How to Capture Family Stories from Seniors on the Holidays

December 22, 2022

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Capture Family Tales From Aging Parents 

Have you captured family tales from older family members? Or have you lost an aging parent and wished you had asked them more questions about their past, your family history, and your childhood? Have you dabbled in ancestry and realized that you could have just listened closely to the stories your deceased parents told you and written them down?

Do not look back! Make this New Year the year you collect the stories from your family. Learn to use 10 reminiscence tools, technology, and techniques to hear family history at holiday dinners and events during Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or New Years.

10 Tips to Capture Family Tales from Aging Parents

1. Use empathetic listening. This means to make all the messages you are giving the older person— tone, how fast you speak, how they are sitting-  all say, “I want to listen to you.”

2. Ask questions that prompt the story but don’t make judgments. If there are going to record the family tale, do it in a way that doesn’t distract or stop the older person from talking.

3. Start somewhere. If the elder isn’t going to tell stories on his or her own, start the story and see if they will follow along.”What was a New Years’ Resolution that you made and kept” ” Do you remember your favorite doll ” What was your first day of school like”

4. Music is just next to memory in the brain shown by Alive Inside So use Alexa, or Spotify, to play  40’s

and 50’s music or especially the -Simple ways to spark reminiscence when you visit older family members :
5. Look at old photos together. Photos trigger memory even with dementia. Choose ones from a period of time the person currently remembers, which could be the person as a young adult, teenager, or even a young child.
6. Play music from their teenage years. It is the background to the most emotional period of anyone’s life and is deeply lined into memory.
7. Enjoy food they like or food that is a family tradition or specialty, particularly ones that have an element

Family With Grandparents Enjoying Christmas Meal At Table

of memory attached to family celebrations. like Mom’s Briscut, Dad’s Sunday Supper lasagna, or “Aunt Helen’s Lemon Cake”.

8. Story Worth was started by Nick Baum, a tecky who was, in a way, a long-distance care provider for his parents in Sweden. He was curious about their past and invented the app based on his own need to gather his family history. My husband is a teller of past tales as a California Highway patrolman, then Hippiedom, then as top marketing director for Pacific Cookie Company, the best cookies here in the west.

Our daughter Kali gave him Story Worth as a holiday gift. He wrote down 40 stories or memories from his past. They were being published by Story Worth in a book, saving in print the precious reminiscence that would have been lost but now is found in a  book that was given to our adult children and then generations to come.

This is a brilliant way to capture reminiscence and I  recommend it to adult children who want to enshrine personal memories in print that otherwise would be lost when they reach back for them.

9. Life Bio-  provides an online template of biography and autobiography questions that have been carefully crafted

10. Quick Voice Recorder to catch the memory on your phone

Use reminiscence as a part of a whole new domain in aging called quality of life or attending to the older person’s need for joy through activities that stimulate the mind. Reminiscence does that- so find out more about how you can increase the quality of life of older people after the holidays and all year long by building a quality-of-life reminiscence program like Nina Herndon describes in her chapter on Quality of Life in Handbook of Geriatric Care Management 

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