Mental Health & Adult Day Care: Worthy Marriage?
For some it is almost not an option. How so? Well more and more participants in adult day health programs are managing some level of mental illness. Diagnosis range from anxiety disorders to paranoid schizophrenia to major depression. At the same time many are not...
Reimbursable Diabetes Self-Management Training A Complement in Adult Day Services
More and more adult day programs are becoming boons of clinical education for their communities. This is especially true of those who offer rehabilitative services. While focusing on what is best to keep care along the continuum in place, some centers offer Diabetes...
The Right Knowledge Can Lead to Increased Income; Or….
Unknown to those who may not be in the business of adult day care, the program’s expenses extend beyond a meal and the everyday items associated with running a building. Of course there are liability coverages and the cost of transportation. Fleet management...
The Right Software is About More than Organization
Adult day programs, which are becoming more and more clinical need truly defined organizational tools. Nowadays the task of these tools has expanded as billing to Medicaid and Medicare become essential parts of many operations. Clinically competent programs partner...
Timing Matters with Strategic Relationship Development
New businesses start everyday and oh boy, the preparation can be enormous. This is especially true when regulatory requirements must be met before we can operate. At the same time that we are in full preparatory mode, there is the question of when should we begin to...
In Adult Day Care, Operators Must be Both Thoughtful and Creative….
No one in care enters a business to hurt someone. We want to help relieve the stress of family caregiving, help intensify the clinical competence of care providing entities and enhance to what extent we can help someone to be self-reliant. We are not sure anyone...
Adult Day Care and Auto No-Fault; A Failing Relationship?
Talk to any insurance adjuster who works in the Michigan no-fault system and they will tell you that they have an obligation to combine quality service identification with cost effectiveness. So many of the 1200+ persons injured in Michigan auto accidents each year...
Shadowing Both Effective and Scary….
In some jurisdictions, training for new direct care workers is allowed by using current employees to impart skill and policy to the new employee. This is called shadowing. While this can be an effective means of familiarizing someone with routines and policy, there...