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September 2006 Ezine for Health & Elder Care Professionals
September 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!

Alpine Home Health Care - Now Certified Senior Approved

Alpine Home Health Care, a full service medical and non-medical homecare provider, is now one of only three home care companies in N.E. Ohio Certified as a Senior Approved Service.

This distinction clearly separates Alpine from other home care companies in the surrounding area. Only those that achieve a 90% (or higher) customer satisfaction rating receive Certification.

Alpine is owned and operated by David Patel. David, along with his staff, offers over 25 years of experience within the home care and nursing industry. Care beyond Comparison is not just a tag line – it is a company directive. Continue Reading

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Announcement: New Resource for NC Health and Elder Care Providers

Senior Approved Services has served over 8,000 seniors across the United States since 2003 at no cost to the senior and without asking or expecting supportive dollars from Federal or State funding. Thanks to a N. Carolina entrepreneur, an active advocate for the elder population, Senior Approved Services is now represented within the state of N. Carolina.

N. Carolina resident, Mr. Dan Taylor, has generously agreed to sponsor Senior Approved Services for the entire state. Please see North Carolina Senior Approved Services. Mr. Taylor is an attorney, creator of ‘The Parent Care Solution’, and author of ‘The Parent Care Conversation’, Penguin publishing. Continue Reading

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How to Establish Yourself As an Expert in Your Field

How to establish expert status ... Have you found the key to being recognized as an expert yet?

If you’re like most small business operators, you know what you’re doing in your chosen field. (The ones who don’t usually are not in their field for very long.) You’re all set for your big break - - - when the magazines or TV crews come calling on you looking for a big interview. But so far, your phone’s not ringing and no one is looking at you as the expert in your profession.

Stop waiting for it to happen! Continue Reading

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Continuing Education Links

Fulfilling continuing education requirements and solving a universally overlooked healthcare stressor ...

There are few professional industries that do not require their employees to obtain continuing education hours. The continuing education demands for healthcare professionals are more diverse and unique from other professions. Continue Reading

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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.

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.

Thanks to a North Carolina entrepreneur, an active advocate for the elder population, SAS is now represented within the state of N. Carolina. 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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In Honor of Labor Day - Work-Prison - Words of Wisdom Submission

Submitted to Words of Wisdom by 'Grandpa Rocker'.

Just in case you get these two environments confused, work-prison, this should help you keep it straight....

Work-Prison?

IN PRISON.......you spend the majority of your time in an 10X10 cell.
AT WORK.......you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.

IN PRISON......you get three meals a day.
AT WORK......you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.

IN PRISON.......you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK.......you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON.......the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK.......you must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself.

IN PRISON.......you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK......you could get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON......you get your own toilet.
AT WORK.....you have to share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat.

IN PRISON.......they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK.......you aren't even supposed to speak to your family.

IN PRISON......all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.
AT WORK.......you get to pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON.......you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK ......you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

IN PRISON ......you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK......they are called managers.

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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. 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

Happy Birthday!

I am taking personal liberties here. Please excuse me for being a proud grandma.

My grandson is turning SIX on September the 4th! Happy Birthday Zachary!
See you soon!
Love, Grandma

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