Home Care Industry
Standard costs, and international trends in the senior population.
Starting a home care business with heart Gold Coast locals Lauren Macdonald and Glen Parsons celebrate the opening of Queensland’s first Nurse Next Door Home Care Services location this week, launching a new model of care for the aged and disability sectors that focuses on the company's core purpose of Making Lives Better. Lauren and [...]
Why it’s so important that franchise partners are the “right fit” When I talk to potential Franchise Partners I have always, and continue to stress, that Nurse Next Door is a business that is just as much about passion as it is about profit. We are not “selling” franchise opportunities but rather, awarding opportunities to [...]
It is true that home care owners come from all walks of life. Nurse Next Door franchise partners come from a variety of backgrounds including accounting, non-profit organisations, firefighting and even ex-service men and women. They all thrive, and bring different skill sets to running their business. However, not surprisingly, many healthcare professionals, in particular [...]
How Baby Boomers Will Impact Your Home Care Business If you're in, or thinking of joining, the Home Care industry, the term Baby Boomer - the generation born between 1946 and 1964 after the end of World War II - is one you are most likely quite familiar with. Boomers have been reaching the age [...]
"Over eight million people live, work and raise a family outside our capital cities, and this number is growing every day." In a recent article in Inside Franchise Business, Mary Aldred, Franchise Council Australia (FCA) CEO spoke about the FCA's campaign to "support regional revitalisation by highlighting franchises as an efficient, innovative tool to address [...]
The Australian home care industry is growing rapidly due to an ageing population. There are two aspects to this demographic trend : first, the structure of Australia’s population is changing, driven largely by our sizeable Baby Boomer cohort who are estimated to be 5.5 million strong - our largest demographic group. Born between the years [...]