How to Find Great Staff for Your Residential Assisted Living Home
How do you find great staff? The key is not just getting a caregiver or a manager, but getting the best ones, the right ones, attracting them, training them, retaining them. You can even interview potential employees through a skype interview. When you ask them questions like, how would you handle this situation? What would […]
Feeding Residents in Residential Assisted Living
Food, It’s important for all of us. In assisted living, it’s actually the number two activity, if not number one inside an assisted living home. If we feed the residents properly, they’ll be healthier. They’ll live longer, they’ll be better behaved, they’ll be more comfortable, they’ll be a joy to be around. However, if somebody […]
Why Become a Residential Assisted Living Expert?
What will you be an expert at? You’re going to become an expert at something. The question is what? There’s the saying that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert. Now when you think about that, at 40 hours a week and 50 weeks in a year, that’s 2000 hours in a year, so […]
The Myths in Residential Assisted Living – Part 3
Can I do this hands-off? You can absolutely operate a Residential Assisted Living home and business in a hands-off manner. Hands-on means you’re in the home every day. You’re watching the residents and the caregivers on a regular daily basis. You’re overseeing, maybe even micromanaging the manager or maybe even being so hands on that […]
The Myths in Residential Assisted Living – Part 2
Where do we find the seniors? There are tens of millions of seniors in our country today who will need assistance with their Activities of Daily Living, according to AARP. That doesn’t mean they’re all going to move into an assisted living home or facility, but they will need help. The question is how do […]
The Myths in Residential Assisted Living – Part 1
Is this considered commercial or residential? The first myth that I want to cover with you is commercial versus residential. We talk about Residential Assisted Living because it’s a single family home, in a residential neighborhood. The home itself might be a little bigger than your average home. Instead of a three bed, two bath home, […]
Assisted Living Options – Big Vs. Small
Is Residential Assisted Living big or small? When we talk about Residential Assisted Living it’s a single-family home in a residential setting. So by nature, it’s small versus big. When you think about assisted living, most people think about a large institutional setting. Some of the new facilities that are being built are absolutely gorgeous […]
What Does The Future Hold for Residential Assisted Living?
Where is the Assisted Living industry headed? There are 77 million baby boomers in America alone. That is 4,000 people turning 85 every day, 120,000 every month, and 1.4 million this year alone. And this is happening all over the world. The average person living in assisted living is 82 years old, and they will […]
The Golden Girls Model for Residential Cash Flow
What is The Golden Girls Model? When we talk about The Golden Girls, we are not talking about the TV show from the 80s, however the concept is very real. We are talking about the Golden Girls Model. There are a lot of people living in a home by themselves. The home is too big, […]
Overbuilding? The Right Place and Right Time for Assisted Living
You may be concerned about the potential of “overbuilding” in your area, so let’s go through what it really means for you. When the recession hit the market changed in regards to commercial investments and assisted living. The big builders finished the projects they were currently working on and then stopped all new building. That […]