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7 Reasons You Need My Care Management Operations Manual Class

March 28, 2022

You Need my care management Operations Manual absolutely essential to grow your business. Watch this video to learn why a manual can boost your geriatric business, grow your marketing outreach, and support staff development

Here are 7 reasons why you need my care management manual class.

You need my care management operations, manual class because the class includes 2 free operations manuals.  Most geriatric care owners’ brains usually function as the operations manual- but nothing is written down. Without the owner, the business has little or no value unless you have made a very very large profit. What makes your business more valuable and sellable is well-designed, well-documented systems that almost anyone can operate successfully. Think of  Macdonald’s who invented the operations manual and grew worldwide. The more your business looks like this, the less dependent it will be on the owner, and the more asset value your business will have s you grow and eventually sell..


1. You Can Receive 3 CEUs per Module if you Join or are an ALCA  Member

You need my care management operations manual class, because  the NACCM, ALCA Certification Program  has awarded 3 CEU’s for 19 modules in the GCM Operation Manual Class, for the clinical training the GCM Operations Manual Class Offers including Move Management, Caregiver Assessment, End of Life, Concierge Companion Services to add to your GCM menu of services

2. You need my care management operations manual to deliver  “gold standard” services in your business.

You should purchase my care management operations manual to keep your customers with consistent gold standard excellence in service. Most entrepreneur business owners start their businesses because they believe that they can maintain gold standard excellence at what they do. Their intent from the beginning is excellent products and gold standard customer service. However, as a business grows and new employees are added to the mix, the quality often diminishes. But if the owner gives a customer one gold standard experience and the employees give that same customer low standard service -it lowers the customer’s opinion of the business. A written operations manual will help give you and your team the discipline & step by step process to do what it takes to consistently maintain Gold Standard excellence as the business grows, especially needed when your business is caring for someone’s mother or father.

maintain Gold Standard excellence as the business grows

 

3. An operations manual is the best tool for training new employees.

You should purchase my care management operations manual class because you can use the manual to easily train employees on each service you offer, saving the owner time and increasing the excellence of your training. Most entrepreneur business owners do not have a strong process for training new employees, like a written operations manual. They tell them what they need to do and then expect that new employee to intuitively do what they were told with gold standard excellence. Often the new employee is a disappointment to the owner.

A well-written operations manual will set the standard for performance. It will also give detailed written procedures (how-to’s) on the critical functions of the tasks the new employee is responsible for. Mentoring is always a great idea, but an operations manual is essential as both a standard and a reference tool.

4. Operations manuals free up valuable time for the owner!

Another reason why you need an operations manual is most entrepreneur small business owners feel like they do not have enough time to do the higher level, more strategic functions of their business. They lament that they do not have time to plan and think strategically. Time gets consumed putting out fires and solving problems. This typically happens when the company does not have a good operations manual. Operations manuals, once written, are a tremendous time-saver to give the owner time to do the higher level, more strategic functions of their business.

5. An operations manual makes your business scalable.

 You Need an Operations Manual if you as the owner of a care management agency have to do everything for it to be done right. Your business is not scalable or able to grow up that steep cliff of growth. It cannot grow beyond the time that you as the owner have to “do everything.” You must create systems that are documented in an operations manual for your business to grow in a healthy, sustainable way.

6. You Can Easily expand your GCM Business to a second office…

 An operations manual adds market value to your company by enabling duplication of your agency. You can expand your business to another site because your operations manual makes it a turnkey purchase. A Manual gives you a template to expand your territory

 

7. You need my care management operations manual to sell your GCM Business for twice the amount. 

Why you need my operations manual class is the class includes 25 free complete care management products with step-by-step directions to deliver gold standard services.


Check Out my Geriatric Care Management Manual Class 

Find out what other geriatric care manager entrepreneurs have said about my Geriatric Care Management Manual

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End of Life-When Do You Need Mediation?

February 23, 2021

Why do some families need mediation at the end of life? Mediation is a voluntary process in which the parties, with the help of an impartial third party mediator, work together to resolve their differences or solve a problem they were unable to address satisfactorily without help. These family differences especially happen to dysfunctional families but can beset any family at the end of life. They are faced with overwhelming emotions and decisions that demand that the family work together as a team. What happens to dysfunctional and even nearly normal families during this trying time? They don’t gather as a team. They fight. They fret and they feud. What are the results of this fighting, fretting, and feuding in families at the end of life?                                        family-charis1-226x300.jpg

Unresolved family conflicts emerge

            Dysfunctional families become more dysfunctional

Family members’ grief, pain, and anxiety are often masked as anger and presents as conflict (past and present)                                                 

Older person dies without resolving important family issues

Older person dies in conflict, not in peace

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

 

Serve Your Client Until Death Do You Part

 

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

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

  • Transition the patient/family through the five stages of death     
  • Help clients be active participants in their care
  • Give the family/caregiver tools to manage care
  • Provide family center care to caregiver and family
  • Choose the right support services through all stages of death
  • Introduce Hospice and Palliative care and work with their team
  • Use ALCA End of Life Benefits During COVID
  • Use  COVID -19  Family Coaching for GCM
  • Sign Up    

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

 

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If Need How Top 10% to Make a Profit at Care Management- Find Them.

March 23, 2020

Why Do a Market Survey before you decide to open a geriatric care management business?

Numerous small geriatric care management businesses have failed after only a few years.

Many of these enterprises made a faulty assumption when developing their business plans. When they looked at the large volume of research and demographic data published in dozens of studies funded they saw a well-documented need for the services provided by private care managers to the tune of 65 million people.

Looking at this large and growing need for services, they confused “need” with “demand.” The fact is that the services of private fee-based geriatric care managers are only affordable to a very small percentage of the population.

Income inequity in the US means top 10% of the US population controls most of the wealth

Only this 10% can afford geriatric care management

 

The target market for a GCM or ALCA business is not the 65 million families who need geriatric care man­agement services but the much smaller subset of those families, who can afford to hire a care manager, which is a huge ethical dilemma but what we face with income inequality in this nation.  

Learn about Private Revenue Sources for GCM’s and why you have to work with the top 10% who can afford GCM’s

Webinar-Sales and Marketing to Find the VIP Concierge Client

March 31, 2020 -2PM -3:30 PM PST

Concierge Clients are the only way a GCM or ALCA care manager can make a profit and have their business thrive. Find out who are they, how you find them, design GCM Products they will purchase, and create a marketing plan and gold standard services to have them sign your contract and use your services long term

Learn

Who They Are- 4 Types

How to Locate them in your service area                             

How to create a strategic marketing plan to sell to them

How to Develop Gold Standard GCM Products and Services

 

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Get the new Handbook of Geriatric Care Management 4th edition   now– out in Kindle or Hardcover

 

 

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6 Reasons You Need a Care Management Operations Manual

November 5, 2019

A GCM Operations Manual is absolutely essential.

It needs to be comprehensive,  useful, with all your services or products and procedures to deliver them. Here are 6 reasons why your business needs this.

1.With an Operations Manual, You Can Sell your GCM Business for Twice the Amount


The geriatric care owner’s brain is the system. Without the owner, the business has little or no value unless you have made a very large profit. What will make your business more s= valuable and sellable is to have well-designed, well-documented systems that almost anyone can operate successfully?  Think of Starbucks. The more your business looks like this, the less dependent it will be on the owner, and the more asset value your business will have.

 

2.  The operations manual will create and maintain the highest quality of gold standard service /products in your business.

Most business owners start their businesses because they believe that they can do a superior job at what they do. Their intent from the beginning is excellent products and/or customer service. However, as a business grows and new employees are added to the mix, the quality often diminishes. If the owner gives a customer one experience but the employees give that same customer a bad experience, it lowers the customer’s opinion of the business. A written operations manual will help give you and your team the discipline to do what it takes to maintain excellence as the business grows.

3. The operations manual becomes the primary tool for training your employees.

Unfortunately, most business owners do not have a strong process for training new employees. They typically walk them around the place of business showing them where everything is. They then tell them what they need to do and then expect that new employee to intuitively do what they were told with excellence. Often the new employee is a

disappointment to the owner.

If there is a manager responsible for the orientation and training of the new employee the results can be even worse. A well-written operations manual will set the standard for performance. It will also give detailed procedures (how-to’s) on the critical functions of the tasks the new employee is responsible for. Mentoring is always a great idea, but an operations manual is essential as both a standard and a reference tool.

4.  The operations manual creates more time for the owner.

Most small business owners feel like they do not have enough time to do the higher level, more strategic functions of their business. They lament that they do not have time to plan and think strategically. Time gets consumed putting out fires and solving problems. This typically happens when the company does not have a good operations manual. Operations manuals, once written, are a tremendous time saver

5.  The operations manual makes your business scalable.

If you as the owner have to do everything for it to be done right, your business is not scalable. It cannot grow beyond the time that you as the owner have to “do everything.” You must create systems that are documented in an operations manual for your business to grow in a healthy, sustainable way.

6. You Can Easily expand your GCM Business to second office as the Manual gives you a turnkey guide

 

 

Find Out More  About My Geriatric Care Management Operations Manual

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Family Systems Theory key to Caregiver Assessment

September 13, 2019

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The reason to assess the caregiver is based on Family systems theory

Care receiver’s ( older client’s )and caregiver’s are a system. Like all systems if you change one part it changes the other part. So if you as a care manager’s repair the caregiver’s problem, like caregiver stress or burnout or no family support from  others ,you change the care receiver because they then get better care. The solution a care manager brings to the situation in the form of a care plan- defining the problems and offering solutions almost always involve working with the caregiver to make changes in the situation.

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Look at exhausted caregiver Ms. Handy

If a client like our fictitious Mrs. Handy is so burned out from caring for her kids husband and difficult elderly father that she is about to place him you offer coaching to stop that placement. You coach Ms. Handy to ask her family for help. You coach her to be firm about her Dad going to bed earlier not at 1:00 AM when he often wakes her out of an exhausted sleep. How did you the care manager know to do this. You did a caregiver assessment. You fixed both problems with this powerful assessment.

If the problem is that the care receiver can’t remember to take his or her medications, it is usually the family caregiver who either sets up the meds or actually gives them. If those meds involve medications for anxiety on the care receiver’s part this may stop her from calling the family member over and over. So when you the family member tells the care manager that she is being driven crazy by her mother calling over and over, the daughter as caregiver is part of the problem and part of the solution that you as a care manager design.  You suggest a medication reminder system and medication reminder service  in the mother’s home to solve the problem. You also suggest a call from the daughter to her Mom to assure her she is there.

You are fixing the problem of her mother calling over and over, using the daughter to fix the mother’s problem that then fixes the daughter’s problem (many less calls.)

 So using a caregiver assessment has usually a dual result of defining and finding a solution to an interaction between the caregiver and the care receiver. 

Check my GCM Operations Manual with the complete service /product of Caregiver Assessment along with 13 other care manager products in a full menu of caregiver products services.

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