6 Ways to Create a Better Training Program for New Caregivers
Training caregivers can significantly reduce caregiver turnover and helps boost agency operations overall. Here's how to successfully onboard your new employees.
Training caregivers can significantly reduce caregiver turnover and helps boost agency operations overall. Here's how to successfully onboard your new employees.
Life as we knew it has changed as a result of COVID-19. Now, home care agencies across the country are finding permanent ways to adapt to the challenges.
After surveying thousands of caregivers every month on behalf of their agencies, we’ve found a common thread. Here’s what they really want.
Home care agencies across the country are fighting to stay competitive. Here's how you can set your agency apart with specialized care.
Hiring a salesperson for your home care agency is an important first step to growth, but it doesn’t stop there. Even the best salesperson needs effective, ongoing training, a strategic plan, and accountability measures.
Many caregivers worked paycheck to paycheck before the pandemic. Now, the paychecks may be smaller, childcare costs (due to schools being closed) chip away at the budget. And it may not be easy to find a second job.
Our Caregiver Learning Ladder is a reliable roadmap designed to help you tailor your training program to meet the needs of your caregivers and serve your unique client population.
Choosing an online caregiver training program? Here are 11 questions you should ask to help you determine the right provider.
When you give your caregivers training that is recognized by the Alzheimer's Association, you position your organization at the forefront of quality Alzheimer's and dementia care.
How to Use a Learning Ladder to Motivate, Engage, and Retain Caregivers
Caregiving becomes a high-turnover job only when caregivers can’t see a place for themselves in it long-term. A learning path that keeps caregivers challenged and engaged is one of the key differences between a dead-end job and a lifelong passion.
Having good “People Skills” means your caregivers have empathy, self-awareness, flexibility, problems solving skills, time management skills, excellent communication, and strong work ethics.
The more your caregivers know about safe lifting, safe transfers, using assistive devices, mechanical lifts, and the effects of certain lifestyle choices on their risk for injury, the more power they have to prevent problems BEFORE they happen.