The Importance of Adult Family Home Consulting
AFH Consulting Services
AFH consulting or support services serve to ease the confusion that often clouds the Adult Family Home industry. One may ask, what’s the benefit of such support services? And couldn’t one do all of the processes required for an Adult Family Home by oneself? This short article aims to tackle this in three short answers.
An adult family home owner may consider hiring a AFH consultant if they find themselves struggling to maintain state guidelines. As an adult family home owner, you’ve invested a lot into your home from a monetary perspective and non-monetary perspective. That investment has to show for something. Is it worth it to hire someone who has the experience of putting the necessary systems in place to make sure that the AFH runs smoothly? Would that be something that could set the home up for a prosperous future from a longevity perspective? The aim here is not to say that one couldn’t do these things themself, but it’s to highlight that benefit of not having to do it yourself and allowing your company to grow by adding well trusted and experienced individuals on your team.
The second not so often mentioned reason is to give you as an AFH owner a peace of mind. Running a care home can be mentally exhausting at times. So, what’s important is to strive to have constant systems put in place that allow you to relax and focus on more important matters. What we mean to say, is that by stressing about miscellaneous aspects of your business, that then takes away from other much more important things that you can be putting your full attention towards. Wanting to do it by yourself is respectable and commendable, however, how long can that last? When will you take a break/vacation? If you aren’t there does the business run or not? This is what we aim to ask AFH owners. Being in this business for more than 20 years plus, we want to give well-informed advice and help our fellow AFH owners.
The last but most important reason, is the residents. What do the residents have to do with any of this? AFH owners often lose sight of being a care home and not the wolf of wall street. We understand the importance and the need to make money in this industry, however, we’d like for home owners to have a resident-centric model and not a “what makes money” model. You as an owner may be willing to take on all these daunting tasks yourself, but the primary goal shouldn’t be to save money, but it should be to see what’s in the best interest of the residents. Saving money is definitely important for your business to keep your business running, however, over and above that is tailoring your business to client needs/wants. A necessary entailment of this model is the long-term prosperity of you business.
We at Kora Senior Living would love to help out with that. We’d love to give you a free consultation to discuss your business needs, map out some sort of plan, and continue to help you grow your business. Our expert Mariama has experience building and maintaining many Adult Family Homes. She’s been consulting currently now for nearly a decade. Please feel free to give us a call anytime.