Eldercare Screener

 

Add the Eldercare Screener widget to your website

 

Convert more of your website visitors to residents.

 

The Eldercare Screener is an easy-to-use screening tool that:

  • embeds directly into your website
  • engages your website visitors by allowing them to take a free eldercare screening
  • accurately identifies those who are candidates for assisted living
  • encourages those determined to be assisted living candidates to forward their screening results directly
    to your staff for follow-up
  • notifies your staff via email each time screening results and a request for contact is received; and
  • facilitates a "needs-based" dialogue with pre-screened prospects

 

It’s as easy as adding a link to the Eldercare Screener on your website!

 

How It Works

You create a graphic or widget on your website home page where your site visitors can access the Eldercare Screener (View Sample).

 

Your site visitors who click on the graphic/widget to take the screening will be redirected to the Eldercare Screener’s 12 item Assisted Living Questionnaire. The questionnaire accurately identifies those who are candidates for assisted living, while filtering out those who are not (see questionnaire)

 

Screenings can be self-administered by individuals who want to know if they need an assisted living arrangement, or by friends or family members on behalf of a loved one about whom they are concerned.

 

To view a video of the Eldercare Screener, click here

 

Additional Marketing Opportunities

In addition to making the Eldercare Screener available to your website visitors, you can also use it to build a marketing campaign to encourage public screenings and drive traffic to your website. Links to the Eldercare Screener can easily be embedded into any internet-based display ad, pay-per-click ad, or print ads.

 

Platform Features

12 Item Questionnaire (details)

 

Contact Requests Inbox (details)

 

Staff Notifications (details)

 

Client Capture (details)

 

Analytics (details)

 

For details, or to arrange a remote tour of the Eldercare Screener via GoToMeeting, call:

 

 

Retrieving Screening Results

Assisted Living Questionnaire (ALQ-12)

 

Instructions: Select the response that best describes the current circumstance for each of the 12 sections listed below. When you have completed all 12 responses, click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the page to obtain your results.

 

1. Personal Care- Bathing/Grooming

Includes:

  • Taking baths or showers
  • Dental/mouth care
  • Hair care
  • Shaving
  • Toe/fingernail care

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

2. Personal Care-Toileting

Includes:

  • Ability to use the toilet, commode, bedpan, or urinal safely
  • Ability to cleanse self, flush toilet, and change protective garment, if applicable
  • Ability to manage an ostomy or catheter, if applicable
  • Ability to wash hands

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

3. Dietary

Includes:

  • Meal preparation
  • Ability to follow special diet, if applicable
  • Ability to remember to eat regularly
  • Ability to maintain a healthy weight
  • Ability to cut reasonably-sized portions, and ability to chew and swallow safely
  • Ability to opt for soft or liquid foods when chewing or swallowing is problematic

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

4. Mobility

Includes:

  • Ability to get around
  • Transfer to/from bed
  • Transfer to/from chair or wheelchair
  • Ability to evacuate in case of emergency

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

5. Housekeeping

Includes:

  • Ability to clean bedroom, make bed
  • Clean up after meal preparation
  • Clean up bathroom after use
  • Doing laundry
  • Emptying trash

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

6. Behavioral/Mental Functioning

Includes:

  • Orientation to time, day, place
  • Memory/Ability to recall
  • Ability to exercise good judgment
  • Ability to follow instructions
  • Sociability
  • Ability to control outbursts, disruptive behavior

 

Excellent behavioral/mental functioning
Some mild degradation of behavioral/mental functioning
Increasing degradation of behavioral/mental functioning
Substantial and increasing degradation of behavioral/mental functioning

 

7. Finances

Includes:

  • Ability to pay bills on time
  • Ability to balance checkbook
  • Ability to do banking
  • Ability to manage assets such as real estate or securities
  • Ability to keep track of money when shopping
  • Ability to exercise sound financial judgment
  • Ability to avoid senior financial fraud

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

8. Medication

Includes:

  • Ability to take medication when scheduled/required
  • Ability to take correct dosage
  • Ability to get prescriptions re-filled when necessary

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

9. Safety

Includes:

  • Ability to be alone
  • Ability to operate household appliances
  • Ability to use gas or electric cooking appliances
  • Ability to lock doors/windows at night, or to set an alarm system

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

10. Communication

Includes:

  • Ability to use the phone or computer
  • Ability to look up phone numbers or email addresses
  • Ability to call 911, if needed
  • Ability to communicate clearly and make needs known to others

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

11. Transportation/Driving

Includes:

  • Ability to operate a vehicle safely, if still driving
  • Ability to hail a cab, catch a bus, or use the subway
  • Ability to discern/follow a travel schedule/itinerary
  • Ability to select correct destination

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

12. Doctor Visits

Includes:

  • Ability to make and keep doctor appointments
  • Ability to get to and from the doctor’s office
  • Ability to communicate health concerns to doctor
  • Ability to comprehend and follow doctor’s instructions

 

Performs independently
Requires some supervision
Requires physical assistance
Totally dependent

 

 

Results for Assisted Living Questionnaire (ALQ-12)

 

For scores ranging between 0-5:

Assisted Living is not indicated at this time. However, watchful waiting is recommended. Feel free to take this questionnaire in the future, particularly if you notice any immediate or significant change in the areas of functioning covered by this questionnaire.

 

For scores ranging between 6-10:

Assisted Living is not indicated at this time. However, it is recommended that you re-take this screening in 6 months, or right away if you notice any immediate or significant change in the areas of functioning covered by this questionnaire.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us, and a staff member will be happy to assist you.

Our contact number is: 800-000-000

 

For scores ranging between 11-20:

Assisted Living may be indicated.

 

For scores 21 and above:

Assisted Living is indicated. Depending upon the degree of need, access to skilled nursing may also be indicated.

 

Below is a sample graphic that would be installed by your webmaster on your website home page to encourage your site visitors to take a screening. Note that this sample graphic includes a $500 admissions credit as an incentive to get visitors to complete the screening. This is just a suggestion. You can create any incentive you wish, or none at all.

You can select which addictions to screen for, and only those screeners you select will be displayed to your website visitors
Each time one of your website visitors takes a screening and screens positive for an assisted living arrangement, they are given the option to share their screening data with, and request contact from, those of your staff members who have created an account on the Eldercare Screener administration site. The screening data and contact request park in the Contact Requests inbox. Staff members can log in any time to the admin site from any internet-connected device to retrieve the screening data and contact requests from the inbox.
Each time screening data, and a request for contact is received from one of your website visitors, your staff members who have created an account on the Eldercare Screener administration site will be notified via email of the pending request. This in turn will prompt them to log in, review the screening data, and make contact with the prospect.
This feature allows a staff member who has access to the admin page to "capture" a prospect. Upon doing so, all other staff members with admin rights will be notified for the capture via email. This helps avoid more than one staff member attending to the same prospect.
Our Analytics application tracks number of click-thrus, screenings, and contact requests.