Caregiving

How to Start a Small Business of Providing Personalized In-Home Care Service

by Romwell Martinez Sabeniano, MBA.HCM


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 11/23/2009

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 8.25x11
Page Count : 204
ISBN : 9781449045098
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : E-Book
Page Count : 204
ISBN : 9781449044961

About the Book

Are you looking for a part-time business or an alternative to what you already have besides your current jobs? Well, you can stop looking and get started. To those who are very motivated to embark on a new business or a career but discouraged by their limited available funds for start-up capital, or perhaps lack the experience in operating a small business, this book is for you. The DOT.COM era is almost DOT.GONE. Enter the new business of the 21st century by providing personalized non-medical care to the aging and the ailing population. Actually, this business is anything but new. It has been around for so many decades now. Caregiving has hundreds of success stories and gross billions of dollars in annual revenues for the nation. It once was an unpopular business in the early 1960s and late 1970s but made a great come back  in the mid 1990s to early 2000s meeting the needs of more than 87 million Americans that belong to the baby boomer population in desperate need of this personalized service. With these recent global development, people's attitude towards caregiving business have shifted for the best. Others are taking advantage of the dynamic trend in aging, health care, medicine and technology by gradually trading-in their lucrative careers and professions to a more personalized care and non-medical type of business such as health care and other caregiving related careers.


About the Author

Romwell Martinez Sabeniano, MBA.HCM has an interesting background in the health care field which include his extensive experience as a  Case Manager/Social Worker for the physically and developmentally challenged population in the Inland Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino, California. He was an educator and founder of Health Care Training and Staffing Services, a school workshop that provided training resources, tapes, CDs, DVDs and books, certification training classes for caregivers, facility administrators. He provided private consultation on facility program planning and design. His interest in health care services started in 1992 when he volunteered for a non-profit foundation for disabled children, later became a member of the support staff and counselor in a group home setting. He went on to pursue his interest in providing care for children and adults with severe behavior and mental health issues when he became an administrator for two 6-bed Residential Care Facilities in the Los Angeles County. Upon completion of his Masters Degree in Business Administration, Health Care Management in 2000, Romwell wrote a research study on caregiving business and was overwhelmed by the growth potential of providing personalized non-medical care services in a private in-home setting. He went on to establish his first caregiving business and named it Angel Care Respite and Home Support Services, a private in-home caregiving business that served the needs of the physically and developmentally challenged children, adults and seniors who prefer living independently at home instead of an institutional setting.

 

This book is also available in Spanish. Romwell's first book "An Easy Guide on How to Establish Your First Residential Care Facility" as well as his other books are now available at your local bookstores, publisher AuthorHouse and through the Internet.