ElderCare Advisors, Inc. helps home care agencies and independent care managers to develop successful fee-for-service, community-based care management practices.

ElderCare Advisors, Inc. provides services to a wide variety of health care and care management providers throughout the country. ElderCare Advisors, Inc. assists home care agencies, hospitals and independent care managers in all aspects of operation of their community-based, long-term care management practice. Our services are tailored to each client's unique needs and circumstances. We help our clients improve both the quality of the care they provide and the financial stability of their enterprise. We provide on- and off-site consulting services that include any or all of the following:

The Challenge

In the United States in 2002, the measurable cost of direct medical treatment − 70 percent of which is given to chronically ill or physically disabled people − was nearly $1.6 trillion. This equaled approximately 13.5 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, nearly triple its percentage forty years ago. And the cost keeps rising. Preventing the unnecessary hospitalization and nursing home placement of our most vulnerable citizens has become our number one, national health care priority. In order to serve the burgeoning chronic-care market, health care and long-term care providers will need to expand their community-based long-term care services. These services will include traditional caregiving services − nursing, physical and occupational therapy, counseling and personal care − as well as the non-medical essentials of long-term care management, such as estate and financial planning referrals, community resource linkage, barrier assessment and modification, housing assistance and long-term care planning.

We call this all-inclusive service Community LifeCare Planning. We believe that Community LifeCare Planning (CLCP) will become an integral part of the service mix of all health care providers over the next few decades. Professional caregivers who are well trained in the fundamentals of CLCP and the provision of ongoing, community-based care management will thrive in the coming years as the baby boomers age. At ElderCare Advisors, Inc., we see tremendous opportunity for those forward-thinking individuals and organizations able to adapt as health care moves from an institution-based, treatment model to a community-based, prevention approach.

Clients

• Visiting Nurse Services of New York, New York NY
• Gardner Visiting Nursing Association, Gardner MA
• Lee Regional Visiting Nurse Association, Lee MA
• Atlanticare Health Systems, Egg Harbor Township NJ
• Visiting Nurse Services Inc., Des Moines IA