Tuesday, March 30, 2010

WHO IS TAKING CARE OF YOUR PARENTS??

Who is taking care of your parents. Home Care Path LLC provides staff to help seniors with daily care regiman. This prevents seniors from getting so run down they end up in the emergency room or permanently placed in assisted living facility. The staff of Home Care Path LLC have been trained to deliver a service that results in a consistent and stable home setting. Seniors are able to keep up with the daily chores that require immediate attention. Reviewing the mail, organizing bill paying, facilitating communication with family. Scheduling provider visits and transportation. Medical Doctor, Foot Doctor, Eye Doctor, Dentist, labs for blood draws are just a few of the providers that require the senior to go in. Meal planning and preperation. This can require trips to the grocery store. Medication cueing and trips to the pharmacy. Scheduled toileting allows the senior adequate time and privacy for maintaining independence. Laundry can be scheduled and as needed. Often seniors benefit from assistance with clothing selection, resulting in complete dressing on a daily basis. Bedding can be laundered and reapplied on a scheduled basis to help enhance rest, sleep. Refuse, recycling, garbage can be delivered to the appropriate recepticle insuring removal form the home setting. The air conditioner in the summer and the heating system in the winter can be looked at daily to insure proper working order. This lists just a few of the ways Home Care Path LLC staff help seniors remain safely in their homes.

Monday, March 29, 2010

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Starting senior care busniess in south central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Coordinating staff to help keep seniors safely in their homes. Staff help with the regular daily household work of the residence. have recently began to recognize this can include attending to animals. Attending to the household pets. Walking, bathing, dogs are things a senior may not have the ambulatory ability, or stamina to complete on a required basis. Some trips to vet may include the pet accompanying the care giver and the senior. This can also include plants. Keeping household plants watered, re potted, dusting leaves so they can receive oxygen. All parts of keeping the environment stable. A sameness communicates safety to both the senior and the family.

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Putting together senior care business in south central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Received good suggestion from a restaurant owner Fields Steak N Stein Original. The owner advised me to begin making a list of potential workers. Went on to describe how one worker can facilitate many connections. Often workers help find friends to work with them. The Restaurant owner went on to describe how performing shifts with Home Care Path LLC would be perfect for real estate agent friends of ours. I had to agree. Even restaurant staff who work part time could be trained to pick up shifts with Home Care Path LLC to supplement income. Many individuals are students planning to work in similar chosen fields.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Putting together senior care business in south central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Simply coordinating staff to perform regular daily required work of household. This prevents seniors from getting so run down they require frequent emergency room visits and permanent assisted living placement. The goal of the service is to maintain a stable consistent household the senior can continue to reside in. Help with daily dress, daily hygeine, meal planning, medication reminders, errands, accompany to visits, house cleaning, laundry, transportation, daily schedule, toileting reminders, coordinating transportation, facilitating family communication, companionship, exercise assistance, home safety checks. All the daily details required to keep the senior residing safely in the home. The LLC documentation has returned accepted from Legal Zoom who registered with State Of Wisconsin. I met breifly with bookeeper accountant yesterday who can be of helf to Home Care Path LLC. Will need to go in to Bank of Wisconsin Dells to put together account. Very exciting to see it all come together.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Starting senior care business in south central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Have received documentation of incorporation through legal zoom . Have received EIN employer identification number. Have received documentation of trademark through State of Wisconsin. I am now able to set up corporate account through bank of Wisconsin Dells. I am waiting on insurance package through Tri City Insurance. I am going to work with book keeper, accountant. The web site as well as the busniess cards and pamphlets need to be completed. I am considering potential workers. The meat and potatoes of this senior care business is coordinatiing staff to help the senior with daily chores. This will prevent them from becoming so run down they require frequent emergency room visits and permanent placement in assisted living. The process begins with a referral from senior or family for service. A home visit with assessment is done for the purpose of identifiying immediate needs and agreeing upon a staffing schedule, completing contract. Staff are then dispatched to the seniors residence and accompanied by Home Care Path LLC rep who provides and in home training. The senior signs the workers time sheet per shift. The senior is billed every two weeks for service. Home Care Path LLC totals individual employee hours on spread sheet and forwards to book keeper accountant who then captures withholding, records required data and forwards employee checks. This can be done.

Monday, March 22, 2010

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Starting Senior care business in south central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Discussing pictures for the pamphlet and web site. Considering picure of self as youngster and saying I want to stay home when I become a senior. And possibly picture of stately looking ancestor in chair and have it read a seniors home is their castle. Kind of a different twist to the typical senior care communication. Will be important to identify the audience. Typically one markets to referral sources. Pharmacy, social service staff, county elder care service's etc. Nice to have a message that speaks to both seniors and the referral sources.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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Starting senior care business in south central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Looking at organizational strategies today. Considering using small two drawer file cabinet. Could then create folders would take with each new hire. Would contain all the documents required with hiring process. Would keep master copy on hand and renew as needed. Determine information that would need to be forwarded to bookeeper. Files could also be stacked for new admits. So would have folders prefilled with all admission documentation. One could just grab the ready made file as going over to meet new potential member. One could also use a portable file, to carry in car. This would help ensure privacy. The files could be used with revisits to residence, review plan of care needs. Essentially each senior would have a file and each employee would have a file. Helpful way to organize hard copies of paper.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Putting together a senior care business in South Central Wisconsin. Home Care Path LLC. Currently pondering the content of brochure. Certainly will have the logo up top. Thinking below would be Coordinating staff for the purpose of fostering consistency and stability to maintain a well deserved quality of life. Below would be contact information. maybe some frequently asked questions followed up by a typical scenario. Will have to identify pictures suitable for brochure. Seems most have pictures of old hands and young hands. Maybe have to include digital image created from composite of same? Seems want to demonstrate family and pet friendly. Keeping seniors safe at home.

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Developing senior care business in south central Wisconsin. Home Care path LLC. Discussing Home Care Path LLC capacity to assist families with transitions. Often families will seek assistance from Home Care Path LLC when crisis has occurred. The family care giver can no longer keep up. The county has been called for assistance. Home Care Patch LLC can staff the senior until the publically funded services are made available to the household. Home Care Path LLC can assist the senior with completeling the visits and paperwork needed to start the publically funded service. Home Care Path LLC in a private pay capacity would work on behalf of the senior and family until public services were in the home. When publicly funded services enter the senior household, families have options. Home Care Path LLC can completely withdraw from the houshold and allow time to see if the senior finds publically funded services adequate. Or the Home Care path LLC staff may provide service as a supplement to the publically funded care. Seniors and families benefit from the service Home Care Path LLC provides.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Starting a senior care business in south central Wisconsin called Home Care path LLC. Keeping seniors safe at home. Coordinating staff to foster a consistency and stability to maintain a well deserved quality of life. Part of the service will include helping families with transitions. Some families may be in need of service to supplement household while waiting for public funded service to begin. Home Care Path LLC staff can actually assist families with participating in the process for determining eligibility for public funded service. Often families with public funded service use Home Care path LLC staff to meet needs beyond public funded staff capabilities. A simple example is taking a member to the Saturday night stock car races they have attended for the last 30 years. This is important to the senior and not available through the public funded service. So the senior opts to use Home Care Path LLC to meet this need. The Goal of Home Care Path LLC is to maintain consistency and stability in the seniors houshold. Working creatively with families to get the seniors needs met.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Starting a senior care business in south central Wisconsin . Home Care Path LLC. Received email notification from legal zoom that the LLC documentation is on the way to my residence per federal express. When I receive the LLC documentation, I can go to the bank to set up the corporate accounts. I am still waiting on the insurance work up. The web site is being worked on through microsoft office live, will have to figure out how to load some images on to the pages. My sense is that many teachers during the summer may be seeking part time work to supplement income. Being a care giver through Home Care Path LLC may be a win win. I have been putting together information for the pamphlet, the frequently asked questions, and a typical scenario. These will help communicate to the families some expectations, improving overall comfort in a times that can be stressful. My friends at the sticker store Xpress it in Downtown Wisconsin Dells have told me they could do logos on shirts as well. This may be great way to communicate to the public. All the research I read indicates that senior care will be one of the strongest industries on the planet for the next 20 years.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Starting senior care business called home care path llc in southern Wisconsin. Excited because received my logo from friends at sticker store xpressit today. Located in downtown Wisconsin Dells. The team did a fantastic job. I have received my trademark through State of Wisconsin for logo for approximately 10 years. Currently waiting on insurance quote. Still waiting on LLC documentation to allow me to set up corporate bank account. Have noticed several individuals who may be interested in working part time for home care pathllc.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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I am starting a senior care business in southern wisconsin. Interesting, my friends have gone from saying there is no way this can be done to if you are going to do this you should ...... So they have gone from seeing it as impossible, to trying to exert some control over the process. Interesting. Still waiting on the logo and the insurance quote. Have starting the web site on microsoft office live. Will now need to put together list of most frequently asked questions. This should assist the consumer in understanding expectations in the form of process. So to start we do initial in home assessment put together plan of consumers care needs, determine staffing time schedule, discuss siging off on time cards per shift, consumer would pay homecarepathllc every two weeks per initial contract. Giving consumers and families a sense of comfort of how the process would flow. Giving them the perception of control, which can be low when trying to effectively manage an elders increased care needs.

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Doing start up for senior care business called home care path llc. Just sent off thank you notes to all the business owners I met with this week. Hoping to form a collaborative relationship, helping each other out. Thinking we could share training cost, and share some staff, keeping the community members better served, while providing more steady employment for employees. Waiting to get logo to put together some marketing materials. Focus will be on referral sources. Hospital social services discharge planners, county services meals on wheels providers etc. I am seeing how face book, and web site could really enhance marketability of this type of service business. Still waiting on insurance work up.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Starting nonmedical senior care business. Staffing seniors homes with help that will prevent them from getting run down and ending up in emergency room, assisted living facility. So keeping seniors safe at home. Met with home care business owner who was very helpful yesterday. She gave me copies of background check forms and web site counties in Wisconsin all use. She gave me form for manditory reporting of new hires. She gave me time card form she uses. She has partnered with county on lot of cases. She also works with CMO care management organization Care Wisconsin, difficulty has been CW is 4 months behind in payments. She spoke of having to take out loan to pay her staff. I explained that was part of my belief about the senior care need. I believe Medicare and Medicaid will continue to provide less. This leaves seniors needing help with lot of the daily cares that are not reimburseable through federal and state plans. The daily cares provided by workers results in preventive measures. Typically a senior must be low income and high medical need (loss of function) to be eligible for services. BY supplementing the household with a support worker the senior can stall, prevent the increased needs. In a sense maintain a level of function and a quality of life that is stable, enjoyable.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Starting a senior care business. Have meeting today with business owner near the area I will serve. Hoping to collaborate for information, share training for staff, share cases, cross referral. This business owner has been able to receive medicaid money which flows through a CMO Care management organization. Believe the business has contracted with the CMO care management organization to perform supportive home care for clients.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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this is a blog about starting senior care business in sourth central wisconsin. Currently have secured EIN number (employer identification number). Trademark has been submitted with fee for approval. Submitted through legal zoom for LLC status. Local decal store working on logo image. Local independent insurance agent working up insurance plan.

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Putting together a senior care business for south central Wisconsin. Envision as primarly asessing household need and coordinating staff to help meet the need. Nonmedical tasks of housekeeping, laundry, meal planning and preperation, errands, home safety checks, caring companionship, medication reminders, transfers, inhome exercise, toileting, dressing bathing. Supplementing respite care to give family members the break that keeps the household safe and functional. Plan to secure LLC status.