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Ken Accardi

Ken is the founder and CEO of Ankota, a company that helps any organization that helps older or disabled people live independently in their home of choice. Having grown up with a disability and a passion for healthcare, this is Ken's mission

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The Fallacy of The Satisfied Home Care Customer

By | on 31, May 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Elderly Care thought leadership Home Care Blogs

Today's post comes coutesy of Jason Tweed's publication "Private Duty Today" (www.privatedutytoday.com)which is a website and product of Leading Home Care (www.leadinghomecare.com). In addition to bei[...]

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Crafting the Home Care Mission Statement

By | on 29, May 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Home Care Home Care Blogs

Today's article comes courtesy of Alex Chamberlain, Executive Director at EasyLiving, Inc., a fully licensed, private duty home health care company serving individuals and families in Pinellas and Pas[...]

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The Top Ten Competencies of a Highly Effective Home Care Leader

By | on 22, May 2012 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care thought leadership Leadership

Today's article is a republication of a story by Stephen Tweed from Leading Home Care (www.leadinghomecare.com). The story ran in their May 16th email news letter and as described below, it is part of[...]

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Home Care Recruitment / Retention Best Practices from Easy Living

By | on 29, Mar 2012 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Home Care Home Care Blogs

Unlike traditional publishing, blogging is more of a conversational means of communication and we've had the privilege of reading and learning from other people's blogs. In our efforts to encourage th[...]

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Home Care Software Geek Shares 5 Key Technologies for the Elderly

By | on 27, Mar 2012 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology home care software geek Home Care Technology

Laurie Orlov is an expert consultant focused on technologies for Aging in Place. She shares a wealth of information about technologies that are emerging for elderly care and specifically those that ca[...]

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"In the Words" of Home Health Care Leaders

By | on 14, Mar 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Home Healthcare Delivery Management Home Care

A former business associate of Leading Home Care's Stephen Tweed went on to build a business that writes books based on the words of various groups of leaders. His most recent book is "In THE WORDS OF[...]

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Home Care Blogging: Why and How

By | on 16, Feb 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Blogging Home Care Industry Home Care

One of our goals in the Ankota blog has been to encourage the use of social media in home care. Usually we share a short topic, but today we're going against the grain and sharing quite a long piece, [...]

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Good Communication in Home Care is about Listening!!!

By | on 06, Feb 2012 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Home Care

I really enjoyed this short but powerful post on the blog at KevinMD.com. It's written by the Reverend George Handzo, a pastor in New York City. In home care nursing and caregiving, we have a great op[...]

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Can Your Home Care Agency Help Prevent Delirium?

By | on 09, Jan 2012 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Recommended Reading Alzheimer's Elderly Care Home Care Blogs

Delirium is likely to be the most costly and debilitating disease afflicting the elderly that you never heard of. We focus lots of attention on dementia, alzheimers and fall-related issues, and we sho[...]

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If Home Care Gets Involved in Bundled Payments Does it Work?

By | on 09, Dec 2011 |   Elderly Care Health Care Reform Care Coordination transitional care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

Our friends at Boyd & Nicholas, "The Cost Report People" provide a weekly newsletter that is a nice overview of issues affecting home care. This week they included a nice summary of a story in Hea[...]

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ACO's - Final Regulation​s Issued: Home Care Coordination Needed

By | on 21, Oct 2011 |   Home Care Industry Health Care Reform Home Care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

Elizabeth Hogue has shared with us a nice summary of the final regulations defining Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). We include her write-up in its entirety below. The piece that gets us most ex[...]

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Smartphones and Tablets will be the leading Home Care Mobile Devices

By | on 18, Oct 2011 |   Home Health Aide Software Aging in Place Technology home care software geek Home Care Technology Home Care Mobile Solutions Home Health Therapy Software

Last week I heard a presentation by John Halamka, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Brigham and Women's hospital and Harvard Medical School. John and his organizations are always ahead of the cu[...]

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