I would like any information pertaining to starting a Home Care business. Any relevant grants or government agencies that are available for funding. Any particular qualifications that are associated for the owner and it's employees. Even any known loopholes.

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Originally Posted by Sam33242

I would like any information pertaining to starting a Home Care business. Any relevant grants or government agencies that are available for funding. Any particular qualifications that are associated for the owner and it's employees. Even any known loopholes.

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There are a lot of requirements of a home care business if it is to be run for the safety of the clients they have on board. You have to have at least a doctor and nurses on board, hire Personal Support Workers who are qualified to care for, if this is the case, elderly clients. Of course the loopholes are assuring your clients that you will care for them in any eventuality, that is why you need professional people on board who are familiar with these 'eventualities' meaning clients who are wheelchair, bed bound and need bed care, personal support. In other words your clients will have to be classed as one person/two person transfers, high risk for getting them out of bed and cleaned because there is liability involved in every aspect of caring for clients who are in varying stages of disability.

If funding is available, then it wouldn't be a proper home care business. Your running costs are provided by the fee you charge to go into clients homes and care for them on a personal level.

Is this the type of home care business you mean ?

ms. tickle

Tickle,
Yes, that is what I am interested in

Okay, Sam, then I have told you what you will have to do and what to expect and the type of people you need to help you run an agency of this type.

Here is a website with information similar to what I have outlined above. The cost and upkeep is tremendous because of exactly who you need:

www.bls.gov/oco/ocos173