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Are You Marketing Private Care Management to The Concierge Family- Who Can Afford You?

May 25, 2023

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Who is Your Market in an Aging Life or geriatric care management business?

How Do you find Concierge Clients? Your market as a care manager is the rich and famous people, your concierge clients, and three other wealthy groups. The lower 90% only call during a crisis, which usually leads to home care. Homecare costs between 4000-6000 a month. This is why you need to serve that top 10%. According to Pew research, the upper 10% can afford that in this nation of broad income disparity, and 90% below cannot.

Demand and not need determines the success of an eldercare business like aging life or geriatric care manager business. This fundamental fact of life must be considered when developing a business plan for a for-profit, fee-based, Geriatric care management business and so the question becomes how do you find concierge clients?.

Who Can Really Afford Geriatric Care Management

How Do you find Concierge Clients?The target market for a private geriatric care management business is not the 65 million families who need those concierge care management services but the much smaller subset of those families who can afford to hire a GCM or aging life care manager and a private duty home care agency, and are willing and able to pay for the services that GCMs and can actually find their way to you.

 This subset really represents the top 10% of the economic spectrum and, more precisely, among the rich and famous, the top 1% who actually held onto its share of national wealth in the 2008 economic crisis and  gained quite a bit with Trump’s tax cut in 2019 

Why Need vs. Demand is the Only Way to Fiscally Survive in GCM A   Hard As That May Be to GCM’s                         

Bob O’Toole MA, a long-time geriatric care manager, wrote a highly researched chapter in the  Handbook of Geriatric Care Management 4th edition,  Private Revenue Sources for the Fee-Based Care Manager- Need Vs. Demand in the Elder Care Market shows aging life and geriatric care manager why you need this 10% of elders and their families as customers.

How Do you find Concierge Clients – What Words do you use in your copy – what keywords do you use to attract them to you?

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Merging Care Management with Homecare Gives You a Competitive Edge.

May 16, 2023

 

Merging Care Management to Homecare Gives You a Competitive Edge.

Merging care management with home Care gives you a competitive edge, but you need to do a Competition Survey to find out how to position your merged agency ahead of all your completion.

Why should you add geriatric care management to your private-duty home care agency?

It can make a client shopping for a Care Managed homecare agency chooses you instead of your competition because you offer one-stop shopping. The adult child does not have to hire one agency to manage care and a second to do homecare. You offer an enticing package for the beleaguered, stressed caregiver desperately seeking help.

MARKETING POSITIONING. Product, needs,

That’s called positioning.

Merging  care management with home Care gives you a competitive edge and shows what makes you different from your competition.  Adult children in a struggling with their aging parents learn that geriatric care management plus private duty home care is an added bonus to families in a crisis. Thus a care management service can be an important differentiator for agencies offering home care. It helps you get more clients and outstrip your competition. So you need to find out through the competition survey if there are any care-managed home care agencies and what you can offer that they do not in their menu of services like care management like Move Management or Home From the Hospital, all offered in my operations manual.

 A geriatric care manager can do a great job of teaching clients and families why they need care. A geriatric Psychosocial and functional assessment and care plan is a very clear way for families to understand care needs and recommendations and to plainly see all the options for providing this care and choose your agency. The GCM is looked at as a desperately needed guide, not a salesperson, to get services started.

Care manager assessments are broader in scope than a private duty home care assessment and include not only family and social supports and home safety but spirituality, Quality of Life, finances, legal, nutrition, environment, mental status, depression,  sibling rivalry, dysfunctional families, relocation options and assistance and death and dying. A GCM assesses for alcoholism and drug abuse, domestic violence, sleep quality, sexuality, activity tolerance, personal values, and cultural beliefs. So they offer an in-depth overview of clients’ and families’ problems.  

 Your geriatric care manager’s care plan gives recommendations and options to consider so the family and client can make the best choices for providing this care.  The bonus to you is this lengthy, very valuable assessment is billed.

Plus, the Family feels like they have a very involved individual concierge to solve their problems

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The first and most important reason to merge care management to home care is money. You will be able to capture billable hours that you and now giving away for free. The second reason to add care management to home care is market positioning. Clients will choose your agency if you offer this merger and competitors do not. A third reason is that a care manager is perfect for introducing home care to family caregivers. Care Managers sit down with the family and review the geriatric assessment and care plan they created for the client. Last, this 1-1 care manager meeting introduces a concierge guide through the labyrinth of caregiving, showing exactly what homecare plus care management will do to solve the client’s problems, increase their quality of life and offer relief to the sometimes-desperate family members. Find out more by signing up for this free webinar

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How Sell Care Management Merged With Home Care – Benefits not Features!

May 11, 2023

If you want to create care management merged with home care– do you know how to sell benefits, not features, in your merger??- here is what I mean.

Say you want a new electric car

And you don’t know much about cars or electric cars

But you want to save money on gas, get cheaper electric care, reduce your environmental imprint, and yet want a room in the back and 4 doors for your 2 grandkids and your big German Shepherd Ranger.

You go to your Tesla dealer and tell the car salesman you’re looking for an electric car to get away from gas has a good range, so you can charge it, which is new, save the environment, yet has room in the back for your two 7-year-old grandson’s and their giant 80-pound German Shepherd- Ranger to go on camping trips and for you to get around you town.

He tells you, full of enthusiasm electric car would be ideal, shows you a few popular models, and gives you this spiel.

“The Model 3 feels sporty and engaging thanks to strong off-the-line performance, intuitive and responsive steering, and nimble handling. The straight-line thrust in the early Long Range models can still be found in the base model trim. In testing, the base Model 3 accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds. That’s impressive for an EV with a single electric motor. The higher-end Long Range and Performance models with dual electric motors are in another league of “quick.”
The base Model 3’s 18-inch all-season tires aren’t the grippiest, but they offer sufficient to stick to live up to most of the spirited driving you’ll be doing on the street. True high-performance driving, however, is limited by heavy-handed stability control. Still, this Tesla delivers a laudable driving experience for an EV.”

 

Huh? 

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If he had said to you instead,

“The Tesla Model 3 is Tesla’s least expensive and our most popular car. It’s been a huge success for the automaker since the first one came out. It saves the environment, and thanks to its low energy consumption, Model 3 scores a near-perfect 9.8/10 in greenhouse gas evaluations. With more than 300 miles of potential range on tap for camping, the Model 3 is perfect for anyone who needs to scoot around town yet can be stretched to work on longer road trips with the family or your dog thanks to Tesla’s built-out nationwide network of fast-charging stations. The Model 3 is perfect for people looking for their first Electric car. It offers a spacious interior for two kids and a big dog, a comfortable ride, and an appealing blend of easy handling and rapid acceleration. So you and your grandkids  and Rangere will be happier and safer driving the Model 3”

The first sales pitch of care management merged with home care had features that gave you no reason to buy the car as you had no idea what he was talking about.

The second spiel had features but largely contained specific benefits to you, the buyer, which translated to all the reasons you would choose this first electric car.

This is why someone selling care management merged with a home care agency needs to sell benefits- not features. For example, as a feature, “we do assessments, “which almost no one but a social worker or a nurse would understand. Instead, you will sell a benefit “Our expert professional care managers will find out exactly what your Mom’s problems are and come up with the right solutions that will make your mother’s life easier, happier, and safer.”

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If a care provider is needed, the person marketing care management merged with home care should offer, “we will find you exactly the right experienced caregiver who is background checked, trained to do exactly what your Mom needs, plus will be a person who your Mom will enjoy having in her home. In addition, we will make your life as a daughter easier knowing your Mom is cared for by a competent, devoted caregiver, vigilantly monitored by our gold standard care managers.”

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Money is the first and most important reason to consider care management with home care. You will be able to capture billable hours that you and now giving away for free. The second reason to add care management to home care is market positioning. Clients will choose your agency if you offer this merger and competitors do not. A third reason is that a care manager is perfect for introducing home care to family caregivers. Care Managers sit with the family and review the geriatric assessment and care plan they created for the client. Last, this 1-1 care manager meeting introduces a concierge guide through the labyrinth of caregiving, showing exactly what homecare plus care management will do to solve the client’s problems, increase their quality of life and offer relief the sometimes-desperate family members. Find out more by signing up for this free webinar.

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Co-Locating both staff.

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Why Adding Care Planning & Care Management Private Duty Home Care Great Idea?

May 1, 2023

Adding Care Management to Home Care Gives Clients Path to Hope

By adding geriatric care management to a private duty home care agency, new clients will understand the solutions and path to hope you bring beyond home care. This offers buy-into your agency, customer satisfaction, and trust in your service, thus hope that the elder care problem can be solved.

 

In the care planning process, a geriatric care manager is vital to families, particularly in the early stages of caregiving. Most families do not understand the needs and problems of the older adult or the costs associated with these options.  They are under terrible stress because they feel out of control. The care manager will explain the problems, solutions, and cost at a one-to-one care planning meeting. This makes new families and clients feel in control and have hope, which is vital to keeping the case long-term. GCM becomes their trusted guide.

A geriatric care manager sorts all the problems in the case and comes up with important solutions in a care plan; they use that to explain what is needed for the client. She/He is very much like a detective- a professional Sherlock Holmes, solving the case for a very confused, desperate family.

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Education training and experience.

Providing a care plan and opportunity for discussion and buy-in among family members can be important in educating, initiating, modifying, or continuing PDHC services. Instead of an agency, the client bonds with the care manager and builds a 1-1 relationship that is long-lasting and puts a face on an agency.
The key is a highly trained, experienced, certified geriatric care manager, not a staff member who is called a care manager but has no training. Since the care managers added to the homecare bill per hour, this multi-faceted professional will pay for her/his salary many times and allow you to bill for what you have been doing for free.
Creating a care plan is not just an art- it is a skill that takes education, training, and experience.

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Money is the first and most important reason to merge care management with home care. You will be able to capture billable hours that you and now giving away for free. The second reason to add care management to home care is market positioning. Clients will choose your agency if you offer this merger and competitors do not. A third reason is that a care manager is perfect for introducing home care to family caregivers. Care Managers sit down with the family and review the geriatric assessment and care plan they created for the client. Last, this 1-1 care manager meeting introduces a concierge guide through the labyrinth of caregiving, showing exactly what homecare plus care management will do to solve the client’s problems, increase their quality of life and offer relief to the sometimes-desperate family members. Find out more by signing up for this free webinar.

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How this merger creates more Profit for both Care Management and Home Care

The Advantages of Merging Home Care and Care Management

Competition Survey to make third parties and Adult Children Choose you

Co-Branding the merged agencies.

Technology for both home care and care management

Co-Locating both staff.

Marketing Merged care manager home care.

Critical Success Factors for the Success of the Merger

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Want Narcissistic Entitled Families for Homecare&Care Management client?

April 18, 2023

 Types of aging families who can afford Homecare &care management

Narcissistic-Entitled Families

Narcissistic Entited Families can afford private care, usually developing from a specific kind of “not good enough parenting” where the parents themselves struggle with personality disorders, like
narcissistic borderline personality. Families who can afford geriatric care management and home care long-term can do so because they are VIP  clients. These narcissistic families, who can afford care-managed homecare are often headed by a scion with a narcissistic borderline personality. Watch Succession, Yellowstone award-winning shows you steam and you know who these Scions are. We love to hate them but binge on their evil ways. These VIP Clients have the financial resources,  to pay 4-6K for home care and long-term geriatric care management which is usually over a million dollars in assets.  Part of this is drawn from Claudia Fine and Nick Newcombe’s excellent chapter “Entitlement in the Aging Family”, Care Managers Working With the Aging Family, Jones and Bartlett)

Real & TV Narcissistic-Entitled Families:

Entitlement in these VIP families usually develops from a specific kind of “not good enough parenting” in which the parents themselves have struggled with personality disorders, most typically, in this type of family, narcissistic borderline personality  (for example Former President Trump)They struggled with a borderline personality that went undiagnosed or was formally diagnosed and untreated. We can also see this Narcissistic entitled family head in Brian Cox who plays the beloved Scion to Love and Hate Logan Roy based on real-life narcissist Rupert Murdock.

Sumner Redstone’s VIP Family Struggles

Sumner Redstone is another example of this type of narcissistic borderline personality in heading a VIP family. He was a Media Magnate who founded CBS Viacom with a net worth of 500 billion. His narcissistic borderline personality created a long-term struggle with his family over inheritance and control after he developed dementia. My Redstone was conserved by his daughter

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