Family Care Home Policy and Procedures Group, LLC is your key provider of training and resources as you become a healthcare administrator of a family care home.
Our goal is to provide you with the information you need in setting up and operating a family care home business. We offer other prep courses in addition to the Family Care Home Start-Up course.
We can also give you access to other related resources that further strengthen your foundations in managing your business.
We are a third-generation family of caregivers who have been in the caregiving business for over forty years. Our predecessors started a family care home in 1962 and, several years later, were successful in obtaining a loan to build a 29-bed facility. Over the past few years, we noticed that there were not a lot of Family Care Homes, and we wanted to bridge that gap. We have talked with so many people who have had an interest in starting up a family care home but did not have the resources to get started. Some who were interested did not know whom to contact for preliminary information on starting a family care home. Thus, our website is the first and original website that not only gives thorough and complete information on how to get started, but we also have painstakingly put together several manuals that would help you on your journey to become a licensed administrator and to start up and operate your own family care home.
What We Offer
Administrator In Training (AIT)
Reasons Why We Care
Simply put, there is a need for more family care homes whose focus is on caring for the aging population. According to current statistics, the aging population is projected to result in nearly double the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease by 2050. (1). Nearly 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million. (2). Today, there is an alarming segment of seniors who cannot stay at home alone and who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Many retire with only social security funding as their means of security and stability. However social security funding does not meet the costs for admission in an assisted living facility. Thus, these seniors are marginalized. While many seniors have worked two jobs most of their lives and received a higher amount of social security funding, this disqualifies them from receiving additional needed aid such as Medicaid to help cover the costs for admission in an assisted living facility as a Medicaid recipient. This segment of seniors is then considered as a “private pay” resident. However, private-pay rates oftentimes are priced three or four times the rate of what Medicaid will pay a facility for a resident’s room and board. This presents a very tough problem for residents who need PP placement. It places the responsibility on the patients’ families to supplement the costs of the patients’ rooms and boards.
The rising costs of assisted living care outpace by far what Medicaid will pay the facility for the resident’s room and board costs. Thus, many seniors cannot afford placement in an assisted living facility to receive adequate care. Families are affected and often must come up with an alternate solution to this dilemma. The senior needing care often gets shuffled between family members or suffers inadequate care while staying home alone. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed in our communities.
Family Care Home Policy & Procedures Group, LLC is a consortium of healthcare practitioners and academics who have come together to help seniors teach family members who struggle with the arduous task of caring for their aged family members. We teach the community not only how to care for the aged but also inform families on how to obtain those resources. We also help educate the family on how they can best help this dilemma by utilizing their own residence by obtaining licensure for that home so that the senior can have the option to age gracefully at home in a non-institutionalized environment. Moreover, as a licensed residence, the home can open its doors, welcoming other seniors in the community to become engrafted as “family.” This is the true identity and purpose of what it means to be a family care home.
We, as healthcare practitioners, also love the idea of helping people working across the medical professions embrace the idea of seniors receiving healthcare and aging gracefully in a non-institutionalized environment. We feel our mission is three-fold in that not only do we seek to engage family members and healthcare workers but also help those with an entrepreneur flair to embrace the idea of becoming an owner/operator of an assisted living facility, a family care home.
“With the rise of costs in healthcare, Barbara is truly a visionary, a pioneer in paving the way for more seniors to get quality care in a home-like environment.” [Faye McGhee, RN]. This would help change family dynamics, reducing caregiver burnout and help healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers gain financial independence as owner/operators of a healthcare facility. “I see pockets of family care homes cropping up exponentially to meet the demands of an ever-growing population, the senior population, where aging seniors will outnumber the youth. Because more families are waiting later in life to have children, and are having smaller families, this gives rise to the senior population outnumbering the youth.”
– Barbara Copeland
Source of Data:
(1) Alzheimer’s Association’s “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures” report.
(2) Alzheimer’s Association’s “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures”
Report.