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Welcome to the Assisted Living Network, presented by RAL Academy, a podcast designed to help you discover how to successfully invest in the booming Residential Assisted Living market. If you're a real estate investor, you know how hard it is to find a profitable and fulfilling strategy in today's market. Methods of generating revenue that worked 10 years ago, don’t work today. Are you tired of low cash flow, high maintenance, and unhappy tenants? Do you wish you could make a difference in th ...
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Keeping it REAL Caregiving is for those who are tasked with caring for a senior loved one. The road can be rewarding, but make no mistake; it is equally challenging, exhausting and sometimes emotionally draining. The goal of Keeping it REAL Caregiving is to help you understand and navigate the health care world you are entering including how to move through Medicare and other insurance options, altering a home to provide safe living spaces, proper food preparation for senior nutrition, keepi ...
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Did you know there are no mandated staffing ratios in the assisted living industry? Concerned? You should be. In this episode, we discuss why resident-to-staff ratios are central to providing high-quality care and provide some insights into appropriate and recommended ratios for smaller residential assisted living homes. In many typical big-box ass…
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Should You Quit Your Job to Take Care of Mom?!
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With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, many families are facing difficult decisions about eldercare. Is it cruel to move your loved one out of their home into an assisted living facility? In this episode, we’ll explore the compassionate and practical reasons why you want to consider this option. Most dual-income households simply cannot aff…
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4 Ways to Get Started in Residential Assisted Living
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Are you considering opening a Residential Assisted Living home but not sure where to start or how long it will take to get up and running? Good news! In today's episode, we’re diving into the nitty gritty of timelines and preparation methods for getting a residential assisted living facility up and running. There are four viable options, each with …
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Have you considered opening your own assisted living facility? With over 76 million baby boomers in need of senior housing, it can be an incredibly lucrative move. However, costly mistakes in the startup process could derail your plans and rapidly drain your funds. In today's episode, we reveal some inside tips on the most common costly mistakes ma…
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What’s the Difference Between Memory Care and Residential Assisted Living?
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Deciding if your loved one needs more advanced memory care can be an incredibly difficult decision. In today's episode, we’ll break down the key differences between assisted living and memory care to help you determine what level of care may be required. We’ll also provide some telltale signs that it may be time to transition to memory care and tip…
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KIRC Podcast S2:E1 How one woman helped save her mother's life
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In this Keeping it REAL Caregiving Podcast episode, we chat with a family caregiver about the importance of being an advocate if your loved one is admitted to the hospital. In this case, her mother's health condition declined substantially after a medical procedure. But because of this daughter's determination and persistence that something was ser…
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KIRC Podcast S1:E10 When caregiving means losing your life partner
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Spousal Caregiving is the topic of this Keeping it REAL Caregiving podcast episode. Some of the challenges of caring for a spouse may be similar to those of us caring for an elder, but the situation is worlds apart, because your person is not a parent or other relative… it is your wife or husband; your life partner and best friend. The woman you wi…
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KIRC Podcast S1:E9 Tablet technology for companionship and more
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In this "mini-edition" of the Keeping it REAL Caregiving Podcast, we chat with Cindy Fink, Director of the Meals on Wheels, Rowan program in North Carolina. As our nation and lawmakers continue tograpple over how best to meet the needs of our aging population (and those caring for them) there are signs of growing awareness among individuals, organi…
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KIRC Podcast S1:E8 What you need to know about Long Term Care coverage
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Keeping it REAL Caregiving welcomes Financial Literacy Expert Vickie Frazier-Williams to the program to talk about L.T.C. No, not T.L.C. - tender loving care, but the OTHER combination of the same three letters, which for all practical purposes do the same thing. We're talking about long term care insurance coverage and why you need to begin to edu…
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KIRC Podcast S1:E7 Capturing famiy history with Video Journals
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Congratulations! If you are a family caregiver you may also be a family historian and sometimes, an archeologist. In this episode of the Keeping it REAL Caregiving podcast, we explore the idea of how and why we - as a society - choose to chase and document history. And when I say history, I mean everyday stories. OUR STORIES. I’ve always considered…
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KIRC Podcast S1:E6 When family caregiving is a man's job
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In this episode of Keeping it REAL Caregiving On-Air, we learn more about the extensive reach of some of the different people who serve as family caregivers in the United States. Keeping it REAL Caregiving host Julia Yarbough introduces us to family caregiver Dwane T. Hodges. He is the face and experience of a growing number of family caregivers - …
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What is Palliative care and how and when should you consider this option? In Season One; Episode 5 of the Keeping it REAL Caregiving Podcast we chat with a registered nurse who is also a Palliative care specialist. Learn more about this specialized field of medical care, what patients and their families need to know before being admitted to a hospi…
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Keeping it REAL Caregiving discovering my father
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In this episode of Keeping it REAL Caregiving On-Air, meet family caregiver Rowena, who is tasked with providing care for her elderly father. The challenge ahead involves finding a safe living facility AND moving him across the country despite already being elderly, frail and ill. Keeping it REAL Caregiving is the brainchild of Emmy award-winning b…
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Family Caregiving Lessons Learned from Bonita & Miss Hattie
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In Episode3 of the Keeping it REAL Caregiving podcast, family caregiver Bonita Green shares her personal experiences and insight after caring for her elderly mother, Miss Hattie, for more than ten years. She shares her top five 'suggestions' for other caregivers on how to navigate the experience and how to care for oneself 'after' your loved one pa…
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Senior Living Caregiving in the Age of Covid-19
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In episode two of the Keeping it REAL Caregiving Podcast, host Julia Yarbough is joined by family caregiver and registered nurse Debra Craton to discuss the realities of senior caregiving during the age of the Coronavirus. Topics include current news reports, staffing challenges for living facilities, nurse burnout and the need for family members t…
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In this debut episode of the Keeping it REAL Caregiving podcast, host Julia Yarbough speaks with family caregiver Debra Craton about the loss of her elderly mother and the challenges she faced caring for a senior for more than 12 years. Discussion includes insight on navigating health and daily needs and how the current system often neglects the ne…
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Business Plans For Opening An Assisted Living Home
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The number one reason to have a business plan is for you, so that you have clarity of vision of who you are, what you're doing and where you're going. The second reason for a business plan is to help raise capital. No private investor or a lender is going to give you the money you need without a business plan. You need to be able to show to other p…
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You can turn your home into senior housing anywhere from independent living up to Assisted Living. Independent living is senior safe. I mean grab bars, smoke detectors, wider doors, trip hazards removed. That home itself maybe has four bedrooms. There's four different people living there. Now if you have a home right now that is maybe on a single l…
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As our family ages they start to need more. Their independence is gone and they don’t want to admit that they may not be capable emotionally or physically. So I think a lot of times we just assume that we should take care of our own mom, our own dad. The reality may be we just aren't designed for that or have the time and ability to do so. So assis…
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A long time ago Assisted Living meant a big institution. Today it is completely different. When you think about living at an Assisted Living home, it has all of the comforts of home and there's other people in that home. It's a group of 8, 10, to 12 seniors in a home with peers their own age, living in that home together. It’s a community. Having a…
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Marketing Offline Helps Build Personal Relationships
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Offline Marketing is having brochure, flyers and business cards. The brochures should match your website and your online presence. You only get one chance to make a first impression. One of your biggest and probably the most important way to market your business is referrals. Referral marketing is the best way to get new business in Assisted Living…
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Hospice provides benefits for people at end of life care.The money that pays for it is provided through the government, which comes from our tax dollars. When somebody is on hospice, the services are provided to them at no cost to them. That company that is providing them the hospice provider, they'll bill insurance and the government to get reimbu…
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Are Mom And Dad In A Home You Feel Good About?
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You probably haven’t even considered putting mom or dad into a home. You just got to a point where it was harder than you thought and you didn't have the time, the skills or maybe the heart. You weren't designed to be that caregiver. You needed that help and you know they did too. In your heart, you know it's the right thing, When it comes to a hom…
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3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting In Assisted Living
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Learn from other people's success. Learn from other people's mistakes. Learn from other people's experience who's actually doing it, not just talking about it. The most expensive lesson is the expense of doing it ourselves, getting to the end and saying, “I wish I knew that before I started.” You could save yourself a lot of money, but if you save …
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Making Money Or Helping People - Do You Have To Choose?
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20 years ago when we first heard about assisted living, we all heard about the silver tsunami that was coming.They were sharing it from the business perspective but there was nobody there to show how it's done. But when it comes to real estate, it's just bricks and sticks. You can fix it, flip it, buy it, hold it and rent it. But it's kind of cold …
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You're going to work at something, you're going to get good at something, the question is what. And what are you willing to do in order to get the return that you say that you want? If you could create a business where you're making all the money you need to pay your bills, well then you can do whatever you want with the rest of your time. Right no…
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3 Signs It May Be Time To Move Into Assisted Living
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There are 3 main signs that it is time to move to assisted living. Number one is that there there was an event, maybe they fell and the doctors say they could fall again and if they do, who's going to be there in the home to see it and pick them up or bring them in or call 911. Mobility issues are there more activities that they can't do? I mean re…
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Staying active is incredibly important. If you just simply lie on the couch things are gonna slow down. They can still do something, but maybe it's volunteer. Maybe it's where they're passing on their wisdom or helping somebody else reach their goals. They're at the point in life where they're giving back, not taking from. And frankly there's no re…
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Is It Time For Assisted Living? - Part 2 - What’s Best For Them And You?
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You're going to have the conversation with the parents about moving into assisted living and if you really focus on what's good for them it’s good for you. Many times older relatives will sell their house and move after all of the kids are out of the house. They want to move to a warmer environment and retire. Some do want to do it and plan for it.…
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Is It Time For Assisted Living? - Part 1 - Having The “You Need Assistance” Talk
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It's important to have the conversation with your parents when it's time to move into assisted living. It’s going to be very awkward and feel uncomfortable and a lot like the roles have reversed. At some point, they may need assisted living. Let me show you the conversation that you need to have. That adult has been independent and they're not gonn…
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Rise Up And Take Care Of The Greatest Generation
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There's a crisis out there. And there is the opportunity to help, to be a part of something big and important. The question is, are you going to be a part of the solution or part of those who complain about it and do nothing? One of the saddest things In our society today is that more than half of people polled feel lonely. We look at our phones an…
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