As they currently place their parents into assisted living homes they are wanting more personalization and less grandeur, more ability to influence the care and less of a crowd, and clearly more qualities that are inline with the life they are currently living.  They want to remain independent till the end.  In the eyes of a Boomer, independent does not only mean being physically able, but more importantly, it means having influence and some control on the surrounding environment.  Boomers are mentally ready for physical limitations – they are not, however mentally ready for a loss of influence on their world.  Many Assisted Living Facilities do not allow for true independence.  Resident and family influence on the activities, meals, and schedules is very limited.  They are large and inherently impersonal, full of strangers, and unable to offer consistent, home-like, personalized care.

As the boomers research the best possible place for their parent, they cannot help but look into their own future.  They are looking for homes that not only say they will conform to their parents needs, but actually have the capacity to handle the requests for personalization that the boomers themselves make.  At Bee Hive Homes Assisted Living Franchises we clearly see the resident and their family as the greatest resource to our care.    Our staff becomes an extension of their family.  With no large facility to hide in; they are constantly accessible without the typical red tape for care requests.  Bee Hive Homes family staff welcomes the input, as they are looking for the personal touch that only a family can provide.  This level of care is not just part of the franchised method of our homes – it is an inherent outcome of the accessibility of our staff, the ratio of our staff to our residents, and the very design of the home.

All businesses have what are called barriers to entry – conditions that make starting into certain markets extremely difficult. These include high funding requirements, high technological or trade learning curves, unknown or little-known business practices, tightly controlled markets, stringent government licensing procedures, the need for highly skilled or trained employees, long lead times, and specifically designed facilities.

To create a successful Assisted Living home, one would need to know senior health care, including special needs issues like Alzheimer’s and dementia, government health and welfare policies and procedures at the state and federal levels, administrative and practitioner licensing, senior care marketing, and many other senior care issues including how to create an approved dietician meal plan for the various needs of residents and then cook it for them.  Obviously, one would also have to figure out where to put the structure, and then acquire the normal business skills like accounting, business planning, employee management, banking, employment law, employee training, contract law, planning and zoning law, architectural design and engineering, senior care construction design, and construction management just to name a few of the big ones!

Each one of these facets of creating a quality Assisted Living business requires substantial funding and time. Alone, each of these represents a very significant barrier to entry that few if any businesses are able to overcome. Combine these elements into one business model, and the likelihood of success is very slim and very costly.

Bee Hive Homes Assisted Living Franchises represents the newest frontier in franchising in an industry that desperately needs solutions to the coming of the baby boomers.  Operating as a franchise, Bee Hive Homes reduces the barriers to entry while at the same time increasing the quality of senior care.  Our way of doing business allows a potential franchisee to focus more on senior care and less on all of the other practices that would normally be required to open and operate a quality home.  This is classic franchising applied to our greatest natural challenge – the aging of America.

These towns benefit by creating local jobs while not losing the very people who helped build their community to larger cities where appropriate care is available.  The families and residents benefit by eliminating the long, single purpose drive that inhibits loved ones from visiting more often. In these towns the activities in the our Bee Hive Homes become a point of pride for the town.  One town changed their parade route to go past the new Bee Hive Home franchise.

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