Environmental Analysis of an Adult Day Care

The Kids Learning Centre is a privately-owned day care facility and non-formal educational institution for children up to 12 years old. It is located at the heart of the City of Downtown, just behind The Business Building, a convenient place where parents and guardians can drop off their children safely. It operates from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM daily, and closes only during major holidays.

Assisted living is a fairly new and unique part of the long term care continuum of services. The goal of assisted living is to maximize the independence of older adults while living in a homelike environment. This paper will provide an overview of assisted living facilities including the number of facilities and residents, costs, services, and growth expectations. Challenges with oversight and regulations will be discussed as well as solutions to the problem. Challenges and solutions for staffing and training issues will also be discussed. The paper will also highlight “In Loving Hands Assisted Living” which is a local assisted living facility that I called and visited to aid in my research. I will give an overview of the

With home care becoming the next wave of long-term care services that will help keep Baby Boomers out of institutional programs and skilled nursing facilities, it will require a supplemental add-on support for family members or the at home caregiver as respite care and compensation for this care will have to be financially addressed. Adult day services provide the aging adult with physical exercise, social activities, and cognitive engagement. The Baby Boomers independence and acknowledgment of traditional long-term care institutions will bring change to the style and type of adult day care activities offered, as they are more engaged with technology, and at keeping themselves as active as

six full time residents and has a meager online presence consisting of only a website. The owners have recently bought another house with the goal of creating an additional adult family home and will soon be in need of six residents and at least four employees. Their current marketing strategies consist

In Greensboro area, there are a lot of communities that can provide assistance to an older adult at different level. My patient is n general an independent one in all aspects of her life and she would like to be in control in everything regarding her life. She is leaving in her nice apartment by herself but in the same time she enjoy being in company of other people, especially people on her age or closer. Therefore, I consider that the best community for her to attend will be a day care community, where she can go almost every day and she can spend some quality time with other older adults. I chose a day care community because I know she needs company to avoid episodes of depression that she has occasionally, accordingly with what she told me at one of my visits. Also, at the day care, besides all the activities that are organized there she can benefit of medical assistance in case of need, and meals

The alternative in providing care for a dependent family member is keeping them in their own home, or the home of a family member. In recent years there has been a move in market place to an idea that is much more cost effective to provide most of the same services that traditionally found in a long-term care facility in the home. It is estimated that providing these services in the home are approximately $21,800.00 a year. It is also important that these figures only cover the cost of providing skilled health care. These figures do not cover additional expenses occurred in the home such as the cost of room and board. In many instances, the idea of keeping family members in the home where their care, may be more closely supervised is becoming increasingly appealing. Many health care providers are recognizing this and providing more and more services available in the home. In today’s market place anyone can find nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and respiratory therapy companies

Alongside these nursing aids, our organization offers health concierge services to clients in their own comforts at home. Among the services we provide to our clients include Companion Care, which is designed to meet the needs of the elderly, Respite Care for patients recovering from illness, Jet Care geared towards the traveling customers, and Home Care that is focused on home-based care delivery. I have served in Home Care of La Jolla since its creation in 2002. The interest to offer a more customized and a need-based service to special groups in the society is the main reason for concentrating in the long-term care industry.

Bob’s rationale behind establishing an advisory board, and his approach for selecting its members, has thus far been successful and valuable for him and the company. He correctly recognized the importance of “the big picture,” as he chose people whose backgrounds covered a wide range of industries and skills and who could therefore fill in any gaps. Furthermore, Bob’s choices were all successful business professionals, so he could therefore be relatively sure that they would be effective in handling any future challenges and recognizing future opportunities. Bob was also cognizant that the business and the family needed unbiased consultants in order to offer advice regarding family employment, and establishing the advisory board presented an outlet in which family members could privately discuss any issues on their mind. Lastly, he established an objective for the board, in that the board would only focus on the “big picture,” which meant that they didn’t get caught in the daily details or argue over the day-to-day routine.

The immediate issue is to make a decision on the future of the family company.

Rida Elias wrote this case under the supervision of Professor Roderick E. White solely to provide material for class discussion. The

Jay Carlos and his wife Leigh were the owners East Hampshire Homes, of a small chain of nursing homes for the mentally retarded located in Concord, New Hampshire. Jay was a business man with over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and Leigh was quite successful in the nursing field holding the RN, MSN, and FNP titles. However neither was experienced in operating a care facility but decided to take on the challenge after deciding it could possibly be a lucrative venture for them. The small company employed 100 people at 2 locations with a total of 23 beds. While Jay handled the business side of the facility, Leigh was responsible for ensuring the facility was in governmental compliance with health and safety regulations. As the business

You are a seventy-eight-year-old man or woman. You live alone, but still in the same house you have lived in for the past fifty years. Even though, in your opinion, you feel healthy and think you can take care of yourself, you have noticed that your mind just is not what it used to be. After going to the doctor for your annual checkup, your doctor tells you that you have the early signs of a disease called Alzheimer’s. The doctor thinks that it would be best for you to move into a long-term care facility. You do not want to leave your home, but you also know that your family is very busy with their own lives, and you do not want to be such a burden to them. That is when you hear about something called an adult day center. Adult daycare centers are a place where older adults have a safe and stimulating place to go during the day. This helps delay moving into a long-term care facility by allowing the client to live in their own home where they may be happier than if they were “forced” to move in to a long-term care facility. The option of adult day centers is one that is growing in popularity, but is still mostly unheard of to older adults as a whole, unless they specifically ask about it.

Finally, successful succession planning demands the right attitude from the incumbent CEO. The naming of a successor is viewed by some as a personal prerogative, by others as a threat. Because succession planning is a tangible manifestation of the limited tenure of any CEO, it is

They may also be managed by non-family individuals. The management team can have two or more family members. However, family members are often involved in operations in various capacity. Particularly for smaller businesses, one or more family members may be senior officers and managers. This has pros and cons. Family involvement as operating executives can strengthen the business because of their loyalty, dedication and willingness to sacrifice today for tomorrow’s gains. But this also present unique problems. Frequently, there are imbalances and mis-alignments between the family and the business interests---a definitive source of tension and conflicts.

In family businesses, the owners of the company are very concerned with building a legacy for their successor. Succession planning involves the decision of leading the company in the next generation. Less than one-third of family firms endure the transition from the first generation to the second, and 13% of family firms remain in the industry for more than 60 years. There is no time spent in preparing the company and its people for the change. There is very little thought imparted to the process of