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When her mother needed care at home, Judy Clinco, President of Catalina In-Home Services, responded by creating a company to care for her. Now 25 years later, Catalina In-Home Services has approximately 75 caregivers helping 80 clients. More
Professional Senior Services The Best Choice For In-Home Care
If your parents or grandparents need help in the kitchen, with transportation and errands, with hygiene, or if they’re bed bound, you may want to consider professional home care senior services to provide the help they need to age with dignity and respect. More
As you probably already know, you can choose between two basic approaches to finding adult home care: hire someone yourself, or arrange with a home care agency to supply a caregiver. And, if you’ve been shopping around, you also know you can hire someone yourself for substantially less that an agency would charge. So why even consider using an professional home care agency? More
As the population of the United States grows older, the need to provide home care services for aged, ill, or disabled seniors is exploding. There is an especially urgent need for cost-effective, trained, non-medical home care aides—a need that will continue to expand as the Baby Boomer generation ages. More
Our senior clients are in the market for the best value in adult home care. And since our agency doesn’t require long-term contracts, senior clients are free to leave if we fail to satisfy them. That’s a tremendous incentive for aggressive quality control. And our system works. Many senior clients stay with us for six, seven, or even eight years—a track record we’re proud of. Here’s how we do it. More
Health care budgets are being slashed at the same time that the aging of the baby boomers will increase the need for in-home senior care delivery in the next few decades. New regulations will likely be introduced in conjunction with this caseload influx; to prepare to meet such demands, providers need to anticipate a program of national standards and upgrade the skills of their adult care staff accordingly. More
Medicare’s home care provisions were designed to provide homebound senior patients with skilled, intermittent, short-term adult care, usually after a hospital stay or to prevent recurring hospitalizations. The program was not intended to provide long-term adult home care, though it was often used for this purpose until the Health Care Financing Administration revised its reimbursement rules in 1997. More
The US healthcare system has been under extraordinary pressure in recent years. Aging Baby Boomers, HMO mergers and collapses, changes in Medicare payment arrangements, and the drive to cut costs by shifting Medicare recipients to managed care providers all present challenges to the medical profession, especially for senior home care. More
Successful Supportive Care: Personnel, Pricing, and Salaries
There's no secret to growing a successful supportive-care service. All you have to do is consistently deliver an unwaveringly high standard of senior care services. When satisfied customers tell their friends and family members, you get referrals. Unhappy customers will talk too, but they won't help you get referrals. More
If shopping for insurance isn’t on your things-to-do list for today, you’re not alone. For most people, insurance is at best a necessary evil. But if you have assets you’d like to protect and especially if your estate is worth $100,000 or more, long-term health insurance is worth thinking about. Long-term care policies provide coverage if you are disabled and need adult care in a nursing home. More
As government programs go, Medicare has been a terrific boon for seniors. But now the system itself is in trouble, and big changes are in the works to get it healthy again. More