We have all heard the stories of the overnight successes that took decades to come to fruition AND Continuing Care at Home programs seem to fit in that narrative well. Congrats to the programs for building their memberships, giving those who refer to stay home an elegant solution, and banding together to learn and grow faster. Cudos to LeadingAge for sponsoring the first CCaH Network to gather that tribe and share those lessons learned.
I was humbled to be included as one of the speakers at the first CCaH Network conference and wanted to thank that team for pulling off a great virtual conference. Thanks as well to Brad Paulis from Continuing Care Actuaries for presenting with me on how to GROW Continuing Care at Home programs. It was good to hear voices from the programs, AV Powell, Love & Company, and Varsity echo the suggestion to better connect the long-term care risk pools. Creating new agreements that serve the families living at communities can give them the choice to have the same benefits as the program members…mainly that 95% of people never move to facility-based care. People who move to senior living communities have same desire to stay in their homes as long as it is safe and wise financially. The sooner we connect these services and risk pools the better our customers and our balance sheets will be served.
It is exciting to work with so many new programs and communities… and with so many who are ready to embrace and find ways to try these new concepts. Thanks to all those good presenters and good organizations.
Safe travels and stay well.
Looking forward,
Perry