Let us help you with the one you love. Introducing Respite Care! Are you a caregiver taking care of an elder parent or spouse? Could you use a break? We now offer individual 4 hour caregiver respite care with 48 hour notice. Call 770-736-7977 for a free telephone assessment.

Do you know a caring entrepreneur? Someone looking for an exciting career opportunity? Earn a thousand dollars when you refer a new franchisee to us!  Alternative Home Care for Seniors is a growing business. And we’re looking for partners who want to grow with us.

The person you refer:

• will have ALL of the new franchise territories available to them in: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennesee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.
• will have the option to negotiate a larger territory either in population or geography.
• will receive unsurpassed training and ongoing support from Derrick Merchant, a home care industry expert with more than 20 years experience in operations and marketing.
• will have the opportunity to launch a successful business venture that is priced within reach.
• will be assured of priority listing on hospital, rehab and other major referral lists with our branding and established name.

Fee to be paid upon qualification and finalizing of the franchise sale w/ a referred buyer. This does not constitute a broker arrangement or offer to sell a franchise. The actual AHCS franchise presentation will be accompanied w/ full disclosure to a franchise buyer thru a UFDD. Contact derrick@alternative4seniors.com or call 770-736-7977 for details.

Our friends are not on Facebook alone! I just got back from dropping off more of our AHCS magnets to Joyce at the bank. (Can you see the one she has in her window?) You see, Joyce likes helping people. She knows there’s a need for home care in our community. So when a customer drives up and asks her about it, she gives them one of our magnets. (I also gave her some of our logo’d pens and notepads to hand-out, too.)

Since many of our clients come from referrals we want to thank Joyce for sending her bank customers our way.

She truly has that special touch when it comes to caring for her clientele. This explains why so many cars line-up in Joyce’s drive-thru lane each day — just to say hi to her. It’s also why last week, the bank president personally stopped by to shake her hand and proclaim her as “Teller of the Week.”

Of course, in our minds, it’s more like “Teller of the Century.” Thanks for all you do Joyce.

Earlier this year, AHCS signed up again  (2nd year in a row) to exhibit at Gwinnett’s largest road race, Run The Reagan. At the time, we knew that the race benefits a great cause, Gwinnett Community Clinic. But what we didn’t know is that mother nature had some special plans for that day, too.

Laying 5″ of snowfall at our feet in Atlanta the night before, the race did indeed go on. And so did its Family Festival of which we were a part of.

So, we loaded up the truck and stocked our booth with our new logo’d notepads, pens and magnets to greet the winter runnerland.

While the snow provided a bit of frost to our toes, the sun warmed our noses as we greeted many a 1 mile, 5k and 10K finisher who stopped by our booth to say hello.

We also met booth neighbor, Aysha Cooper of the new Sarah Care Adult Day Care Center in Snellville.  Aysha is excited about helping our community with her new day care center for seniors. For more information, call her at 770-685-6971. Or visit her website.

If you were planning to run or drop by and see us, but just couldn’t dig out, who knows? Maybe we’ll see you next year! Until then, thanks to everyone who stopped by.

The W.O.W.'s hold up a few of the sweaters they gave me last Thursday for Gwinnett County Seniors.

Last February, I met Mary Anne Lamb (shown back row on the left) at Run The Reagan 5K in Snellville, GA.  AHCS had a booth at the race and Mary Anne stopped by. I remember telling her about our “Sweaters For Seniors” program. She told me that her women’s group at Brookwood Baptist might be able to help us collect some sweaters.

Lo and behold! She was right as last Thursday AHCS was invited to the “Girl Friends’” meeting at Mary Anne’s Lawrenceville home.  It was a chilly winter night but you’d hardly know it thanks to the hospitality of these women. Warmly welcoming me in, I was given the floor to discuss our “3rd Annual Sweaters for Seniors” program.

Martha McCance (back row 3rd from left) introduced me to the W.O.W.s and pledged that they’d help next fall. One of my requests is that we get more Gwinnett County Schools involved this year. It seems that K-5 aged kids in particular love to collect sweaters for seniors. Martha explained, “We have some members who work at  Gwinnett County Schools and we’ll ask them to help.”

A huge thanks to Mary Anne, Martha, Lori and the rest of the “GF’s.” (I hear they also help seniors at Sunrise Assisted Living on Five Forks Trickum.) So with all they have on their plates, we appreciate their help with S4S all the more!