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GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAY RUSH – Learn Technology to get new clients

October 21, 2021

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

October 7, 2020

 

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

That market is the rich and famous people who are your concierge clients and three other wealthy groups. The lower 90%, only call when there is a crisis and that crisis usually leads to homecare. Homecare costs between 4000-6000 a month. This is why you need to serve that top 10%. The upper 10% can afford that according to Pew research, 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 taken into consideration when developing a business plan for a for-profit, fee-based, Geriatric care management business.

Who Can Really Afford Geriatric Care Management

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.GCM-pix-2.jpg

 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 

Even Fewer People Can Afford Care Management Since 2008 Collapse

Meanwhile, the share of national wealth held by the bottom 90% fell to 25% after the Wall St and housing collapse, and these elders are tragically not the market for geriatric care managers because they cannot afford the service.

Whether you are a nurse care manager, geriatric social worker, nurse advocate, geriatric care manager, aging life care manager, any of the alphabet soup of care management names, if you have a private geriatric care management business, you can only make money and thrive as a business by marketing selling and be signing up the top 10% elder client.

Why Need vs Demand is the only Way to fiscally Survive in GCM As Hard As That May Be to GCM’s

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

COVID HAS AFFECTED CARE MANAGERS CASELOADS AN BOTTOM LINES

Like so many small businesses geriatric care managers have been fiscally affected by

coronavirus  If you have strong safety and infection control policies and feature them prominently on your web site, you should be able to make up for this budget hole created by the virus, by targeting the right clients demographically.

 

Join me in my newest FREE Webinar

MARKET LIKE YOUR BUSINESS DEPENDED ON IT DURING COVID

October 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm PST

As you are approaching the busiest season for care manager’s  the holidays when facebook-holiday-post-4.pngfamilies visit for the holiday and seeing their elderly parents skating on very thin aging ice

Learn care management marketing that works at all time but especially during COVID so you can:

Consult with and help client’s during COVID and post COVID

Convert Consultation into  regular clients

Understand branding 

     

Develop a positioning strategy so the caller chooses you

Understand lead generation in care management

Understand how to do an e-newsletter

Get the best

marketing software  

Understand Public Relations Press, TV-Radio, Social Media Coverage

Understand Zoom Webinars

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

October 7, 2020

 

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

That market is the rich and famous people who are your concierge clients and three other wealthy groups. The lower 90%, only call when there is a crisis and that crisis usually leads to homecare. Homecare costs between 4000-6000 a month. This is why you need to serve that top 10%. The upper 10% can afford that according to Pew research, 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 taken into consideration when developing a business plan for a for-profit, fee-based, Geriatric care management business.

Who Can Really Afford Geriatric Care Management

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.GCM-pix-2.jpg

 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 

Even Fewer People Can Afford Care Management Since 2008 Collapse

Meanwhile, the share of national wealth held by the bottom 90% fell to 25% after the Wall St and housing collapse, and these elders are tragically not the market for geriatric care managers because they cannot afford the service.

Whether you are a nurse care manager, geriatric social worker, nurse advocate, geriatric care manager, aging life care manager, any of the alphabet soup of care management names, if you have a private geriatric care management business, you can only make money and thrive as a business by marketing selling and be signing up the top 10% elder client.

Why Need vs Demand is the only Way to fiscally Survive in GCM As Hard As That May Be to GCM’s

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

COVID HAS AFFECTED CARE MANAGERS CASELOADS AN BOTTOM LINES

Like so many small businesses geriatric care managers have been fiscally affected by

coronavirus  If you have strong safety and infection control policies and feature them prominently on your web site, you should be able to make up for this budget hole created by the virus, by targeting the right clients demographically.

 

Join me in my newest FREE Webinar

MARKET LIKE YOUR BUSINESS DEPENDED ON IT DURING COVID

October 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm PST

As you are approaching the busiest season for care manager’s  the holidays when facebook-holiday-post-4.pngfamilies visit for the holiday and seeing their elderly parents skating on very thin aging ice

Learn care management marketing that works at all time but especially during COVID so you can:

Consult with and help client’s during COVID and post COVID

Convert Consultation into  regular clients

Understand branding 

     

Develop a positioning strategy so the caller chooses you

Understand lead generation in care management

Understand how to do an e-newsletter

Get the best

marketing software  

Understand Public Relations Press, TV-Radio, Social Media Coverage

Understand Zoom Webinars

SIGN UP NOW  

 

 

 

 

 

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

March 22, 2020

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

That market is the rich and famous people who are your concierge clients and three other wealthy groups. The lower 90%, only call when there is a crisis and that crisis usually leads to homecare. Homecare costs between 4000-6000 a month. This is why you need to serve that top 10%. The upper 10% can afford that according to Pew research, 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 taken into consideration when developing a business plan for a for-profit, fee-based, Geriatric care management business.

Who Can Really Afford Geriatric Care Management

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 

Even Fewer People Can Afford Care Management Since 2008 Collapse

Meanwhile, the share of national wealth held by the bottom 90% fell to 25% after the Wall St and housing collapse and these elders are tragically not the market for geriatric care managers because they cannot afford the service.

Whether you are a nurse care manager, geriatric social worker, nurse advocate, geriatric care manager, aging life care manager, any of the alphabet soup of care management names, if you have a private geriatric care management business, you can only make money and thrive as a business by marketing selling and be signing up the top 10% elder client.

Why Need vs Demand is the only Way to fiscally Survive in GCM As Hard As That May Be to GCM’s

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

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15 Alarm Bell for Holiday Visit With Aging Parents

December 6, 2019

ALARM BELLS FOR AGING FAMILY  HOLIDAY VISITS

It’s almost Christmas and Hanukka and time for the family visit with older relatives. If you suspect festive cheer with an aging family could devolve into some scary scenes, here are some red flags to put in a checklist and share with your midlife siblings before the holiday celebration.

Perhaps your older parents have piles of junk mail, dirty clothes, unwrapped gifts when Mom used to shine through her color-coordinated presents. All are cause for the sibling 911 alarm- then action.

You can use this list to assess your parents or older family members during the holidays and compare notes on a post-holiday conference call. If all midlife siblings have the same criteria, it makes easier to agree on what to do and what to flag as family New Year’s resolutions. 

Below is a list of red flags. If you saw any of these problems on Thanksgiving or Hanukkah or face them on Christmas- now is the time to do something about it. Use this is a checklist.

Alarm Bells List for Visiting  Aging  Long Distance Relatives During the Holidays

  1. Unpaid bills
  2. Missed appointments
  3. Clutter in a home that was once always neat .
  4. Refusing to go to medical providers
  5. Not taking care of activities of daily living: cooking, bathing, dressing, housekeeping, etc.
  6. Entering contests, credit card maxed out on shopping channels
  7. Recent fall

POST-HOLIDAY EMERGENCY PLAN

When midlife adult children return from the holidays, the family can have a family meeting alone or with an aging professional and look at the problems on everyone’s list, agree on the top red flags and start helping the long-distance family.

Don’t wait till you and your midlife siblings are shocked out of sleep by late-night calls from brothers and sisters, frantically telling them of a crisis with aging Mom or Dad. Don’t force yourself and the other adult children to book last minute, high-cost flights, and gather in scary, sterile hospital rooms with brothers and sisters they have not really communicated in years.

Call an aging life or geriatric care manager for help 

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