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October 2006 Ezine for Health & Elder Care Professionals
October 02, 2006

The Free Monthly Ezine for Health and Elder Care Professionals


Attention Seniors and Family Caregivers - See the Free Ezine for Seniors and Family Caregivers Great articles - please feel free to review the featured published articles - great information for your senior clients and their family caregivers!


Corporate Sponsorship – Promote Advocacy for Senior Citizens

Corporate sponsors are currently being sought by Senior Approved Services as it continues to expand its services on a state-by-state focus.

North Carolina Senior Approved Services is sponsored exclusivley by Dan Taylor, author of 'The Parent Care Solution." Dan is not only promoting this particular web site in every radio, TV, newspaper, and magazine article he is also generously donating 10% of the book sales to a fund he's setting up for seniors and family caregivers in N. Carolina.

Ohio Senior Approved Services has been launched thanks to the support of a current Certified Senior Approved Service, Alpine Home Care Services, Inc.. There remains only four additional sponsorships for the state of Ohio. A concentrated marketing campaign now begins in NE Ohio - to seniors, family caregivers and also to the business community serving the older adult in NE Ohio. This marketing is being done in concert with Senior Approved Services and our first sponsor, Alpine.

Illinois Senior Approved Services has also been launched. Hamilton Home Care Services, owned by businesswoman Barbara Hamilton, is also a current Certified Senior Approved Service. Illinois also has just four sponsorship opportunities remaining. A concentrated marketing campaign now begins in the greater Chicago area - to seniors, family caregivers and also to the business community serving the older adult in Illinois. This marketing is being done in concert with Senior Approved Services and our first sponsor, Hamilton.

The corporate sponsorship package allows businesses within each state to promote its message of senior advocacy within the local elder population directly to three primary markets. The growing aging population, the baby-boomers (adult children of senior citizens), and health and elder care business owners. Each state will have a limit of five non-competing sponsors to represent SAS both on the Internet and in direct local marketing. Continue Reading

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Relax While You Quit Smoking?

To a seasoned smoker the word relax is not normally associated with the thought of smoking cessation. In fact, if you speak with most smokers they will readily tell you that failure to quit smoking is almost always associated with some form of stressor and the inability to relax.

In addition to the de-stressing effects that you will experience with low-level laser therapy, you can now enjoy a relaxing or deep tissue massage. Continue Reading

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The Caregiver's Resource Helpline for Hospitals and Discharge Planners

Businesses operating within the health and elder care industry share a set of common problems. Most are facing budgets cuts and nearly all must deal with staff shortages. Most families are not concerned with these realities and will still expect (as well they should) ease of communication with you and of course, accurate information.

This holds true especially for hospitals and skilled nursing facilities where frequent discharge planning occurs. Patient satisfaction is considered an important outcome measure in a managed care environment faced with escalating health care costs, shortened lengths of hospital stay and competition among acute care hospitals.

A simple low-tech method now exists that both your staff and most importantly Continue Reading

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Another Way to Safeguard a Wanderer

The well known issue of wandering that occurs with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-afflicted patients is worrisome for caregivers. We lock doors from the outside. We keep watch at night and hire people to help us. Still, sometimes it happens. Sometimes a vulnerable, confused person goes missing. Continue Reading
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The Parent Care University

Parent Care University was created to train professionals from various disciplines such as accounting, financial services, law, social work, medicine, and nursing in both the structure and technology of the coming care environment. Attendees upon successfully completing the training will be awarded the designation of Parent Care Specialist.

A Parent Care Specialist will act as the facilitator and coordinator of the myriad of assessments, services, and administrative capabilities that are needed to manage the affairs of aging parents. Parent Care University encourages a team approach using all the disciplines. Continue Reading

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Resources for Your Business

Our list of resources continues to grow! See Health and Elder Care Business Resources Directory

If you have a B2B offer then you want to take advantage of our 500,000 unique web visitors each month and our growing ezine subscribers. See Advertising to the Health and Elder Care Industry You will not find advertising fees - anywhere on the Internet - this affordable!

Featured B2B Advertisers:

Free Newsletters from 123Greetings Want a weekly dose of fun and joy? Subscribe to the online email newsletters at 123Greetings.com! This free weekly newsletter service is your one-stop fill for interesting updates on coming events, free ecards and exciting offers from our partners and sponsors. Just go get it and make your loved ones smile.

Capture Web Visitor's Email Addresses Picture this. An adult child is surfing the net trying to find a suitable elder care service on behalf of a loved one. She comes across your site and thinks she will remember to come back to it later. She leaves and continues surfing - now she can't remember where she found your site. If you had a Refer a Friend Button, then she could have easily sent herself a note - or - and this is extremely valuable - quickly referred your site to her friends that also may be in search of your service. For less than a half of a penny a day - you will be amazed at the increase of web visitors. AND - you will capture the email address of the person sending the note - and each email address the note was sent to.

Call anyone in the world free of charge! Hold meetings, conference calls, web cam conferencing, email chat and share documents! Free software! Skype

Take control of your web site! Webmaster holding your site hostage? Do you have to pay every time you want a change or update? Are you limited to the amount of pages, do you have to pay extra for an ezine, or to submit to search engines? Then you may want to consider Site Sell

See Health and Elder Care Business Resources Directory for more great resources.

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Giving Great Presentations at Work

Public speaking is many people's greatest fear, yet sooner or later most people will have to speak in front of a group at work. Whether you're training new employees, giving a presentation to management, or offering a toast at a company dinner, being an effective speaker can help you get ahead at work.

So, who do you think rates higher?

(a) A speaker with fabulous information and so-so delivery
(b) A speaker with fabulous delivery and so-so information Continue Reading

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Submit Your Articles - And Calendar of Events

Don't forget to use the Calendar of Events to locate events in your local area - you are also welcome to post your events - free of charge!

Articles wanted! This is a Free Service to all ezine subscribers! Your submissions to inform, educate and entertain our ezine audience of Health and Elder Care Professionals (7,000 plus and growing!) - are greatly appreciated. It helps you, helps others in the field, and it keeps our ezine interesting. We certainly don't want to have an ezine that only includes the exciting news occuring within Senior Approved Services.

ATTENTION CERTIFIED SENIOR APPROVED SERVICES: Surely your company has something newsworthy to share! Why not take advantage of the FREE method to further promote your business!

Please review Article Submission Guidelines You receive free exposure in exchange for 2 simple requests. One - you must subscribe to one or both of our ezines. Two, once we've created a page within our website featuring your article, we will send you the link to your article page. You will be required to link from your home page back to the article we publish for you.

FYI - Did you know we are now in the top 1% of Internet traffic within our category?

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Networking Group for Health and Elder Care Professionals

Networking online with other health and elder care professionals is a convenient method to communicate, share information, learn from experts in your field and grow your business through referrals. If you are too busy to attend networking groups in your local area then you will love the idea of meeting business owners in your industry without leaving your office!
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Exclusive offers for Certified Senior Approved Services

Certified Senior Approved Services are part of a large and growing network of other health and elder care resources that join us in advocating for senior citizens. We continue to expand on our marketing opportunities. A Certified Senior Approved Service is automatically promoted by us, by other Certified businesses and by our collaborative partners that have agreed to recommend and endorse SAS to their valued clients.

And now - sponsors within each state and local community are also promoting our network of Certified Senior Approved Services to their target audiences as well. See Exclusive Promotions

Did You Know?
In order to be a Certified Senior Approved Service, a business contracts with us to conduct a customer satisfaction survey. We must know, before we endorse a business and recommend it to seniors and family caregivers, that it is a safe reliable company and these surveys provide this information. Each adheres to a higher code of ethics while serving our elder population.

A business pays us for the survey. No one in these respective industries require the survey. We applaud our current Approved Services for being the leaders in the health and elder care industry.

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Employment - Health and Elder Care

Ezine subscribers are now welcome to search and post health and elder care employment offers directly from our site. We average 500,000 unique first-time visitors each month - and we are only charging a small administrative fee to post. See Health and Elder Care Positions

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