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Principles and Core Values

Person-centered care is an approach to healthcare that focuses on the individual patient’s needs, values, and preferences. It emphasizes: Patient Empowerment, Respect for Values, Holistic Care, Collaboration, and Continuity of Care. Thus, person-centered care aims to provide compassionate, supportive, and effective healthcare that is tailored to the individual patient’s needs.” (3).

These beliefs are the foundation of our principles of service, and it serves a core value that guide the focus of caregiving for seniors being cared for in a family care home. The principles of service are hinged on the fact that we believe the patient/residents’ comfort matters. Therefore, attention to good quality care, good health, and spiritual well-being is the hallmark of quality care.

Source of Data:

(3) American Association of Colleges of Nursing: Person-centered Care

Reasons Why We Care

Simply put, there is a need for more family care homes whose focus is on caring for the aging population. According to current statistics, the aging population is projected to result in nearly double the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease by 2050. (1). Nearly 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million. (2). Today, there is an alarming segment of seniors who cannot stay at home alone and who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Many retire with only social security funding as their means of security and stability. However social security funding does not meet the costs for admission in an assisted living facility. Thus, these seniors are marginalized. While many seniors have worked two jobs most of their lives and received a higher amount of social security funding, this disqualifies them from receiving additional needed aid such as Medicaid to help cover the costs for admission in an assisted living facility as a Medicaid recipient. This segment of seniors is then considered as a “private pay” resident. However, private-pay rates oftentimes are priced three or four times the rate of what Medicaid will pay a facility for a resident’s room and board. This presents a very tough problem for residents who need PP placement. It places the responsibility on the patients’ families to supplement the costs of the patients’ rooms and boards.

The rising costs of assisted living care outpace by far what Medicaid will pay the facility for the resident’s room and board costs. Thus, many seniors cannot afford placement in an assisted living facility to receive adequate care. Families are affected and often must come up with an alternate solution to this dilemma. The senior needing care often gets shuffled between family members or suffers inadequate care while staying home alone. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed in our communities.

Administrator In Training For Family Care Homes, LLC is a consortium of healthcare practitioners and academics who have come together to help seniors teach family members who struggle with the arduous task of caring for their aged family members. We teach the community not only how to care for the aged but also inform families on how to obtain those resources. We also help educate the family on how they can best help this dilemma by utilizing their own residence by obtaining licensure for that home so that the senior can have the option to age gracefully at home in a non-institutionalized environment. Moreover, as a licensed residence, the home can open its doors, welcoming other seniors in the community to become engrafted as “family.” This is the true identity and purpose of what it means to be a family care home.

We, as healthcare practitioners, also love the idea of helping people working across the medical professions embrace the idea of seniors receiving healthcare and aging gracefully in a non-institutionalized environment. We feel our mission is three-fold in that not only do we seek to engage family members and healthcare workers but also help those with an entrepreneurial flair to embrace the idea of becoming an owner/operator of an assisted living facility, a family care home.

Source of Data:

(1) Alzheimer’s Association’s “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures” report.

(2) Alzheimer’s Association’s “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures”
Report.