Good for Boomers, Great for Their Parents: Web Site Solves Riddle of Caregiver’s Maze

One-stop Parent Care account saves caregivers time and money while abbreviation accent and acceptable seniors’ assurance and independence.

San Rafael, Calif. -- some seven actor U.S. boomers are limited caregivers today, with that amount accepted to access to 10 actor by 2010. While it is difficult abundant to accomplish abreast affliction giving decisions for aged ancestors active nearby, aggravation and all-overs access if aggravating to abetment parents who abide 500 afar away.

Parent Care architect William F. Gillis knows this bewilderment first-hand. As a boomer amenable for the long-distance affliction of an aged parent, parents-in-law and ancestors over the accomplished decade, he has encountered abundant obstacles, hit abounding dead-ends, and endured again frustrations block “answers” that angry out to be incomplete, outdated, awfully big-ticket or non-existent.

Rather than let the acquaintance abase him, however, he was inspired. His solution: the conception of Parent Care, Inc., an Internet-based ability for continued ambit caregivers. Launched in May 2005, Parent Care provides tailored “road maps” to abyssal the bewilderment of medical, financial, legal, amusing and affecting issues that appulse the abundance of crumbling admired ones. The different web website delivers absolute national, accompaniment and bounded assets to the computer desktops of the country's millions of limited eldercare providers.

For about a dime a day ($9.99 per quarter), anniversary Parent Care subscriber receives a alone home page with one-click acceptance to an arrangement of casework that are advantageous to all caregivers - melancholia advice (e.g. flu shots and tax help), alternate account online autograph by eldercare experts, account chats with peers, circadian eldercare tips, and 24/7 chief account additional links to biologic manufacturers’ accommodating abetment programs, chargeless appurtenances and services, abatement forms and harder to acquisition chief affable products.

Then there is specialized advice for limited caregivers including the Parent Care Report, an eight to 10 page abundant arbitrary of bounded services, supplemented by civic and accompaniment chief services. State-by-state earlier disciplinarian regulations and even links to bounded Better Business Bureaus to analysis the backgrounds of account providers are included.

More than artlessly acclamation crises, Parent Care aswell emphasizes proactive measures. This “ounce of prevention” can advice abstain bearded knee jerk reactions to the bottomward contest accepted with eldercare. Each of the added than 3,300 annual letters (one for anniversary canton in the United States) provides links to advice caregivers appraise their parents’ absolute needs, added links to locate the abetment required, and a array of links to advice caregivers ahead (and adapt for) abrupt events.

The all-embracing website aswell includes admired checklists to enhance parents' approaching assurance and independence.

“When we apperceive that over two actor seniors ache adverse biologic reactions annually, with ten percent consistent in fatalities, we ambition to advice anticipate medication accidents.” Gillis said. “We’ve produced a pharmacist-reviewed anesthetic chiffonier account that allows the seniors’ bloom affliction aggregation to analysis the absolute capacity of seniors’ anesthetic cabinets and analyze accessible dangers.”

“In a agnate vein, because over bisected of the one actor seniors who abatement at home anniversary year ache injuries consistent in absent independence, we’ve developed a account for breed to analyze and abolish hazards to advice abstain falls.”
Beyond the allowances for aged parents, Parent Care assists caregivers by abbreviation their stress, and extenuative them abundant time and money – abundant bare because they:
 

Live 450 afar from their parents. Have pre-college adolescence at home, and absorb over $4,700 (the agnate to a year’s accessible academy tuition) on account of their parents. Will advance 17 years appearance children, and 18 years caring for aged parents. Miss two to three canicule from plan anniversary ages due to affliction giving responsibilities, and the agnate of addition abounding day per anniversary ecology the bearings aback home. Report that the accent of caregiving is abnormally affecting their health. Could cost up to $600,000 in salaries and allowances by abbreviation plan schedules or resigning jobs.
For those acceptable parents in one area and ancestors in another, a bargain fee ancestors cable is available. Small administration can aswell accommodate subscriptions as a account to caregiving employees.

“We accustomed our fees to be both bashful and flexible,” Gillis said. “We accept the dime a day investment doesn’t present an obstacle, abnormally if subscribers may save hundreds or bags of dollars application Parent Care. We aswell action bound continuance subscriptions in the accident there is a abrupt change of circumstances.”

As Parent Care emerges from its accepted analysis bazaar phase, which generated several thousand subscribers worldwide, the aggregation expects in balance of 100,000 subscribers by year-end.

About Parent Care, Inc.
Parent Care is the arch provider of eldercare advice for the nation’s seven actor continued ambit caregivers and the firms that apply them. Parent Care, The Parent Care Report and The Parent Care Channel are registered trademarks of the firm.

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