What new training ideas for senior volunteers?  What do you suggest besides, medicare, LTC, legal  ser?
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How about inviting the local College/University over to talk to the Seniors about their "Senior Programs" including Degree Seeking?
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It depends on where you are located. If you live in India there are many new nonprofit organizations that could use your expertise. If you need suggestions, let me know your city and I can make recommendations. You can email me at this id @ yahoo
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first, how do you plan on getting paid? most will expect medicare or insurance coverage. you must have medicare provider number in order to bill medicare, are you going to provide concentrators, equipment etc. where will you get referrals? do you have a business plan? what insurers will accept your billing? do you have enough cash reserves to last until paid? insurers and medicare never pay within 30 days. who will maintain equipment? are you going to buy new or used? what other services can you provide besides respiratory? how much insurance will you need? are you going to buy or rent oxygen cylinders? how will you handle after hours emergencies when equipment breaks or elderly patient does not operate it correctly? someone has to be on call. how much equipment will you need and where can you get fast delivery when you begin to run short? if medicare goes to competitive bidding how will you compete against national chains...apria, lincare, american home patient etc? how much competition in area? find an area underserved.\n\nanswer some of these and you will have an idea...good luck, i just sold mine.
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Curb house number stenciling\n\nFirst aid kits (One troop made these themselves bying the basic supplies in bulk. They included a postcard for reordering. The kits came in several sizes and worked great for them!)\n\nSelling services works great with the elderly- yard cleaning, raking, etc. go really quickly with an entire patrol doing the work!\n\nA local troop did Christmas Tree removal- flyers stuck in doors and sent along from local tree lots advertised that they would haul your tree for $5. Mail in the coupon and you'd get back a ribbon to put on the tree. While in the neighborhood, they knocked on the doors of other people putting trees out and offering them the same deal- they made big bucks with this!
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Large groups of elderly people at various nursing homes or assisted living centers may have nothing to do all day while waiting to pass on. So they are online all day being useful and making good use of their masters degrees and former experience sharing their knowledge as mentors, teachers, and professionals. They are by large retired and were told their experience was no longer needed by anyone for pay. The family never visits. Why sit in the rocking chair and wait for hospice time? It's more useful to share experience and knowledge with those who need it. What else can people do when they no longer have the energy to be senior volunteers and greet people at the church doors?
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Try the small business association for your area.  They also offer retired professional that volunteer to help you.
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Check with your local community colleges and AARP organizations to see if anything has been set up locally. Also, if there is an Area Agency on Aging, check with them.
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I am signing up at my local YMCA. I promised myself I'd do it before age 40, so here we go.\nThey can also point in the right direction, like possibly the Boys and Girls Clubs.
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Try the book Marthoning for Mortals by John Bingham.  It has lots of helpful advice and training plans for beginners.
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first know what you want to do...a great place to start would be at a local hospital or your church. There is always the Salvation Army and the Goodwill. And don't forget the elderly neighbor who can't mow his or her lawn. That's also volunteering!
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Visit the nursing home and take an elderly for a walk. Become friends with them and make thier day and u will have a bright day too. So get active with an elderly. U be surprise how active one can be when they have some one to move more with. Have fun!!!
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Freecycle sites are a place to start and also check with AARP in your town/city, call the colleges or tech institutes and see if they have programs that might help.  In my town the tech schools will help with supplies if you qualify and they have lots of different programs. \nCall the disability office and ask about retraining programs. They would like for you to get back in the work force.
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get on the  web and look up "body recall".\nIt is an exercise program designed for older people by older people. It started in Berea, KY
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If they are over 65 its medicare time. I would try the organizations all affiliate with the nurses for those under 65. No matter what, it's expensive as hell and you would be subject to pre-existing conditions which there probably is at that age. Good Luck
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Go find a family or a senior who can use some help. Paint a house, food shopping, mow a lawn. Maybe just your company, kind word.  So many rewarding options. Give it a try.
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free? nothing is free. what kind of training do you want? If you telll me ill edit the post telling you what to get.
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I suggest you read the following books to give you some ideas on how to start, manage and operate a senior assisted living facility:\n\n- Senior Living Communities : Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing-Care Retirement Communities by Benjamin W. Pearce \n- Assisted Living: Current Issues in Facility Management and Resident Care by Kevan H. Namazi and Paul K. Chafetz \n- Assisted Living : Needs, Practices, and Policies in Residential Care for the Elderly by M. Powell Lawton, Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D. Sloane, and J. Kevin Eckert\n- Assisted Living Administration: Knowledge Base by James E. Allen \n- Seniors' Housing and Care Facilities: Development, Business, and Operations by Paul A. Gordon\n- Developing Active Adult Retirement Communities by Diane R. Suchman\n\nHere are some articles that may give you idea on the business:\n\nhttp://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/Copy_of_MA_SegArticle/0,4453,274124----13-,00.html\nhttp://www.helpguide.org/elder/assisted_living_facilities.htm