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A Home Care Checklist for Good Dementia Care

By | on 23, Nov 2011 |   Alzheimer's Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices

In caring for the elderly, knowing how to work with Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients is essential! We've blogged about this in the past based on a very special meeting with the "The Alzheimer's Whisp[...]

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Billy Graham's New Book Offers Compelling Perspective on Elderly Care

By | on 17, Nov 2011 |   Recommended Reading Elderly Care thought leadership Learning

Renowned spiritual leader Billy Graham spent his life career inspiring people to live lives of grace, faith and charity. Now, at the age of 93, Rev. Graham is inspiring us in the final stages of life.[...]

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Home Care SEO: Making Home Care Web Sites Better

By | on 28, Sep 2011 |   Recommended Reading Starting a Home Care Business Marketing Home Care Blogging Elderly Care Private Duty Agency Software Will Hicklen Home Care NPDA PDHCA Home Care Blogs

There is much too much to cover in SEO concepts to do so effectively in a single post, so we’ll provide a series of articles to make it easy. Provide your email address in the form to the right to be [...]

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Justification for Care Coordination between Hospitals & Home Care

By | on 22, Sep 2011 |   Elderly Care Care Coordination transitional care Home Care Accountable Care Organizations ACO ACO Technology

We at Ankota strongly believe that care coordination and home care are the keys to improved health care. The math is simple:

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The Best Way to Measure Home Care Quality

By | on 25, Aug 2011 |   Marketing Home Care Home Care Industry Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination transitional care Home Care

As a consumer, measuring quality is usually second nature. You can look at a restaurant or a handbag or a pair of shoes and almost immediately decide whether it's a quality product or not. Perception [...]

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Home Care Veteran Launches "Support for Caregivers" Blog

By | on 22, Aug 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care

Veteran Home Care nurse Colleen Lindblad RN has launched a new blog that provides support for caregivers, and is appropriately titled http://supportforcaregiver.blogspot.com/. Although this is a new i[...]

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Elderly Care 101: What options exist for Senior Care?

By | on 15, Aug 2011 |   Elderly Care Aging in Place Technology Home Care BeClose

If you've come to this article, you're likely to have an elder family member or friend who is either temporarily or permanently struggling to live safely on their own and you're wondering what you can[...]

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5 Percent of the Population Accounts for 50% of Health care costs

By | on 09, Aug 2011 |   Home Care Industry Elderly Care Health Care Reform Care Coordination HME Checklists

Only 5 percent of Americans accounted for roughly half of all U.S. health care spending in 2009, according to a report from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. Conversely, th[...]

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Grow your Home Care Business with Concierge Services

By | on 25, Jul 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Elderly Care Private Duty Agency Software Home Health Aide Software

One of my favorite home care expert consultants is Ginny Kenyon from Kenyon Home Care Consulting. Ginny helps to launch around 20 agencies each year and also helps exisiting agencies to grow. Today's [...]

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Home Care Startup Lessons Learned from Ginny Kenyon

By | on 02, Jun 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Starting a Home Care Business Elderly Care Private Duty Agency Software Home Health Aide Software

Sometimes we proudly share the wonderful work of others on our blog and today we share a compelling post from my friend and mentor Ginny Kenyon. Ginny does a wide array of consulting work to get agenc[...]

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Selling Home Health to Hospitals, ACOs & Other Healthcare Facilities

By | on 19, May 2011 |   Home Care Entrepreneurship Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Health Care Reform thought leadership

Hospitals and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are offering new opportunities for partnerships with home health care organizations, but in order to capitalize, your organization needs to learn ho[...]

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Must discharge planners offer Home Health Choices?

By | on 23, Mar 2011 |   Elderly Care Home Care Best Practices Care Coordination Accountable Care Organizations ACO Learning

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