Senior Care Live: April 11, 2026

Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South.  Steve and JC discuss how Seniors Helping Seniors can help you remain independent at home for years to come.  What makes Seniors Helping Seniors different than other homecare providers?  It’s in the name, it’s their caregivers.  With an average age of 62, they are simply more relatable and more reliable.  JC explains the type of caregiver they’re looking for and how you can reach out for an interview and join this amazing team.  Don’t forget to check out JC’s new podcast “Aging Well in KC”, coming soon!  Then, Steve answers his most frequently asked question “when is the right time to consider moving from home to a senior care community?”.  #SeniorCare #SeniorCareLive #SeniorCareConsulting #SeniorLiving #KansasCitySeniorCare #SeniorCarePlacement #SeniorCareAdvisor #Franchise #SeniorCareFranchise #HomeCare  

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Speaker 0:23

Hello and welcome to Senior Care Live. I'm Steve Kuker, your senior care consultant, and I really appreciate you tuning in today. We have a wonderful program with my friend and special guest in studio, Mr. JC Pfeister. He's the owner of a wonderful company called Seniors Helping Seniors, KC Metro South. And JC, welcome back to Senior Care Live. Hey, thanks for having me back, Steve. I really appreciate it. You bet. You bet. And for those of those of you who are listening, and maybe this is gonna catch your attention. You may need home care assistance now. Maybe you're gonna need a little bit of help down the road. Maybe you have home care right now, and maybe you're not happy with that service. Maybe you want to explore some options. Write this phone number down. 913-407-7550. That's 913-407-7550, or visit online at seniorshelping seniors.com. Spell it just like it sounds, seniorshelping seniors.com. And then JC, that you just put your location in there, and then you're gonna pop up as KC Metro South. That's exactly right. Okay. All right. So let's talk about let's just remind our listeners about all the services that you are able to provide helping someone remain independent in their home.

Speaker 3 1:50

Yeah, absolutely. So seniors helping seniors. We're an in-home care agency. We focus on hiring seniors to care for seniors, and the services that we provide, companionship, lighthouse work, meal prep, we'll run errands for folks, we'll take them to appointments. We do all the personal care, so toileting, bathing, grooming, assistance with dressing. We do dementia care, Parkinson's care, respite care, all the way up to 24 by 7 care.

Speaker 2:18

All right, very good. And my church I tried to start this a long time ago and then it just didn't go anywhere. So we're redoing this again. We're gonna start a kind of a senior care ministry at my church. It's a pretty good sized church. And we had some family and friend caregivers in the room, and one of the things that kept coming up consistently was transportation. And we're stuck at home, and I need to be here with my wife, and, or if someone could be with my wife, maybe I could run, or if someone could run an errand for me, that would just make a huge, difference. So you can help out with those sort of things?

Speaker 3 2:56

Yeah, absolutely. And it's a great question. And I think one of the one of the glaring needs in Kansas City is transportation for seniors. You know, when we get calls, we tell our clients or pre potential clients is we're not like Uber. you know, we need to know what those schedules are in advance. Um, but if we do, we are able to provide transportation for our clients throughout the metro area. and you know, that can be that the caregiver is driving their car, the caregiver can drive the client's car. It's really dependent upon you know what the client um requests. And, you know, in that in that aspect, we have probably about a 50-50 mix, and sometimes our clients are riding along with our caregivers. Sometimes our clients just send our caregivers out to run errands, right? And maybe going to the grocery store and picking up a list of items that that they can utilize in their home.

Speaker 3:54

Okay, and you know what, folks, this is just such an important issue. According to the AARP, they had this massive study, and I think to no one's surprise, ninety percent of those responding to this survey said they would prefer to stay at home. Well, you could work with JC Pfeister and seniors helping seniors to do just that. And I'm not sure about some of the national statistics, but I think people who bring in, maybe have family and friend caregivers coming in, maybe you have a home care provider come in, maybe a combination of both, are staying in their in their house independently three, four, five years. And how much money is that going to save you potentially from moving to one of these care communities? And you may not need all 24-hour care. What what's your average case going on right now? Maybe four hours, six hours a week, a couple, two, three times?

Speaker 3 4:54

I would say it's probably closer to the 12 to 15 hours per client um per week. But, you know, it really is dependent upon the client and where we start in terms of the care needs. Okay.

Speaker 5:07

And so you were telling me this. We had lunch recently. Uh how many approximately, how many providers, home care providers, are here just in the Kansas City metro area? I think I undersold that one.

Speaker 3 5:22

Oh, I think there's a hundred plus, Steve. Yeah, over a hundred. A hundred plus, yeah, home care providers.

Speaker 5:27

Yeah. And so first of all, that's kind of scary. So I'm just telling you, skip the other 99 plus and just call JC. He'll take very good care of you. But let's talk about so with over a hundred home care providers, how does seniors helping seniors stand out? How are you different from all of these others? Because it's I think it's really important to define that difference.

Speaker 3 5:59

That's a great question. And we are unique. We are the only agency that's out there that hires seniors to care for seniors. We get the questions a lot of times is well, what does it mean to be a senior? We don't put a specific age on it. We look for people who have got great life experience, caregiving experience, relatability, reliability to add to our roster. We have CNAs that are on our team, we have retired nurses that are on our team. Although I want to clarify, everything that we do is non-medical. Non-medical, yeah. Non-medical based upon our licensing. And then we just have a very good pocket of do-gooders, and those are people who have maybe volunteered at their church. They've volunteered at Meals on Wheels. And this is a way that they can give back to the community in serving seniors and earn money along the way. All of our caregivers are what we consider casual part-time employees, but they are W-2 employees. And so it's a fantastic group that that we have on our team.

Speaker 7:08

All right. And you talk about, you know, they have these life experiences. What's the average age of your caregiver? Right at 62 years old. 62. That's right. Okay. So we were all 18 and 19 and 20, once upon a time. That was a long time ago for me. But my thought is you're caring for this sweet little 80-year-old lady, just as sweet as she can be. What kind of life experience, what are you going to talk about as an 18-year-old with this this 80 to 82-year-old? There's such a gap that I have to think that would become or could be an issue when you're maybe not providing care, but you're trying to develop a relationship, you're trying to develop trust and in this, you know, ongoing conversations and all of those sort of things. If you're 18, are you going to talk about your date this Friday night or how college is going? I mean, that you have you're very limited. And I'm not throwing 18-year-olds under the bus. We were all 18. But if you're 62, you have a career. You have multiple experiences, you have a lot of things in common with someone who is a little bit older than you. And so I just think I say it every time. I just think it's a brilliant approach.

Speaker 3 8:29

Yeah, absolutely. And I've got I've got two girls. one of them is 22 years old, and one of them is 20 years old, right? And so can definitely understand that relatability component. But you are you are absolutely right. Our senior caregivers and the model that we have, people love the fact that there's that life experience that comes into the home, and that really translates in terms of building relationships with our clients because you know, the services that we provide, we really we're not looking for a transactional service, we're really looking for a relationship-based service and, you know, how we can help folks age in their home. And, you know, you mentioned 90% of people want to do that. and so, you know, we really feel that we're providing a fantastic service here in Kansas City.

Speaker 9:21

Well, in caring for someone in their home, it doesn't get any more personal than that. So I love the fact that you just you distinguish transactional versus relationship. So it's again every time I just think this is just amazing. So we talked about kind of an average you know number of hours per week. is there a minimum number of hours that you can provide a client? Because sometimes, maybe in the beginning, maybe they don't need a lot of help, but they need a little bit of help here and there. How does that work?

Speaker 3 9:58

We'll have a conversation two hours, two hours, starting with a two-hour daily minimum. And that is lower um than other home care agencies. Um what we see is really that that best starting point is right at three hours. But depending on dependent on where people are in the metropolitan area and dependent upon their needs, um, we can start services as low as two hours per day.

Speaker 10:25

Two hours. That's a really low minimum. And JC, let's pick up that conversation right after the break. But first, the Senior Care Live question of the week. You must be licensed to provide home care in the state of Kansas. Is that statement true or false? What do you think?

Speaker 2 10:43

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Speaker 11:40

You're listening to Senior Care Live on the Senior Care Broadcasting Network. For more information, visit SeniorCareLive.com. All right, back to the Senior Care Live question of the week. You must be licensed to provide home care in the state of Kansas. Is that statement true or false? And the answer is True. The answer is true. And JC, you're a Kansas-based provider, and so you are licensed through the state of Kansas.

Speaker 3 12:40

That's correct. We are licensed as a home health agency, non-medical, non-skilled by the KDHE and the state of Kansas.

Speaker 12:47

Okay. So what about Missouri? Do they have I don't think they have licensure there yet, do they?

Speaker 3 12:53

They do not. So it's very different. The areas of Kansas City that we service, primarily Johnson County and Miami County on the Kansas side, and Jackson County and Cass County on the Missouri side. But there is not a license requirement in Missouri. I will say that we follow all of our Kansas licensing if we're servicing Kansas or Missouri residents. And that Kansas licensing, there are multiple background checks that we run our caregivers through, there are reference checks that we take our caregivers through, a health assessment that's done by a nurse, as well as an up-to-date TB test. So it is very rigorous in terms of onboarding caregivers. It takes usually five to seven days for us to onboard a new caregiver. And there's also the fact that we do re-assessments, we do supervisory visits, and we don't have to do that in Missouri, but we do do that. We feel that that's the right thing to do. And it also really creates less questions for our clients, it creates less questions for our caregivers, is that they know that everything that we do is consistent based upon our Kansas licensing.

Speaker 14:04

It's a higher level of care. It's definitely a better approach compared to, yeah, I can hang up my sign on the door and Billy Bob's home care, and I'm gonna go out and that that just blows my mind. By the way, you could do that, and I'm sure it's done, but not seniors helping seniors. If you appreciate that level of thorough vetting and background checks and training and all of it, reach out to JC Pfeister at Seniors Helping Seniors, KC Metro South 913-407-7550, or online at seniorshelping seniors.com. And JC, you had talked about a two-hour minimum, three-hour would be preferable, but you could talk to someone and work that out. And then and then people can increase that number of hours per week as they as they become more comfortable with with the care, with the caregiver. I assume that probably happens pretty frequently.

Speaker 3 15:02

It does. It it really does. I mean, there's a lot of cases that we have that start at those lower amount of hours, and it does grow into something more significant in terms of the hours that we're caring for our clients on a on a weekly basis. One of one of the stories that always sticks with me is that you know, it was a Friday afternoon and I answer the phone and the lady on the other end says, Wait, you're JC. And I said, Yes, and she said, You own the company, and I said, Yes, and she said, Wow, I just wanted to call in and I wanted to thank you for the differences that you were making and your caregiver was making in my mom's life. And, you know, I also wanted to talk with you about increasing hours for my mom next week in care. And you know, that really shows the difference that our caregivers make, the difference that our office staff makes on a daily basis. And what a great way to end your Friday, right? And go into the weekend, knowing that your teams are making such a difference in in Kansas City.

Speaker 16:05

Well, a lot of companies turn their phones off Friday afternoon. They don't want to be bothered with, oh no, not another, you know, not more people needing our services. Well, but you do not, and I testify to that because I've called you at least twice on a Friday afternoon, and you're like, yep, we've got we've got that.

Speaker 3 16:24

And you're just boom, you're just on it. We do. We have somebody that's answering the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And as we continue to grow and people really love the model and the service that we're providing in Kansas City, we know that there's more of a need that you know that we're there to answer um the questions and the calls that we're getting from folks.

Speaker 16:44

Excellent, excellent. So there are so many people at home with dementia at at one level or another. And in my mind, that always brings in a safety issue or potential safety issue or risk of some type. So are you able to help someone at home if they have dementia?

Speaker 3 17:05

Yes, we are. And the other thing that I'll say is that for us it's very important that our caregivers continue to have ongoing training. And you know, that training is in part to, you know, how do we how do we care for somebody that has dementia in their home? And so that's something that that we're always we're always thinking about. But absolutely we're able to we are able to care for clients with dementia.

Speaker 17:32

Okay. And that's huge because frankly, not everyone can do that. And it does, it takes a special caregiver to be able to do that as well.

Speaker 3 17:40

So and that's why it's so important, you know, we've talked about this on previous shows, is that you know, one of the things that we do is that we're gonna come out, we're gonna do a home assessment, we're gonna do a visit, we're gonna understand is that situation safe for our caregivers, is that situation safe for our clients? We're gonna tell you if it's not, right? Yeah, we don't just take hours to take hours, right? Yep. Um and if it's if it's not the right situation, it is not a safe situation, we're gonna let we're gonna let you know that.

Speaker 18:11

Okay. All right, excellent. And then I'm assuming so you're growing, and you're I mean you're really growing well. Uh I'm assuming that you could use some more caregivers. You're always looking for more additional caregivers to add to your team.

Speaker 3 18:27

We are always looking for additional caregivers. We have been very blessed, right, in terms of adding to our roster. And we do that through job boards, we do that through social media posts. But the really cool thing as we continue to grow is caregivers referring other caregivers.

Speaker 18:46

That's the best way to do it. You get a great caregiver, and then he or she would recommend their friend, hey, you need to come over here. This is great. And so it must does most of it come through that or kind of an all of the above?

Speaker 3 18:58

I would say it's all of the above, but it's really started to shift over the last six months, Steve, yeah, as we're starting to see more caregivers referring their friends, right? Other caregivers to come work for seniors helping seniors.

Speaker 19:10

Okay, and if someone is interested in so someone just raised their hand and they're like, yeah, this sounds fantastic, and you know, I am you know X years old. I mean, I mean I fit that kind of that description. How do they go about should they just give you a call or what's the best way to start that process?

Speaker 3 19:27

Absolutely. Give us a call, go to our website, there's information we can definitely talk you through that process.

Speaker 19:35

Okay, and then you are also starting a new podcast, and I definitely want to mention that for all of our listeners. Check it out. It's called Aging Well in KC, and that's just about ready to drop here any day. Is that correct? Anywhere you can watch or listen to a podcast, Steve. Okay, so Aging Well in KC, and that's audio and video. You've got the video going. We do. Okay. All right, that sounds good. So you had to kind of get kind of cleaned up for video. I absolutely I had to comb my hair that morning, Steve. I hate it when that happens. All right, reach out to JC Pfeister, fantastic person, fantastic company, 913-407-7550. That's 913-407-7550 or online at SeniorsHelpingSeniors.com. And don't forget to check out Aging Well and KC Podcast. JC, thanks for so much for being here today. I appreciate you, my friend.

Speaker 3 20:36

Appreciate you, Steve. Thanks for everything that you're doing for seniors in Kansas City.

Speaker 20:40

All right, thank you. We'll have more coming right up.

Speaker 22:07

Welcome back. You're listening to Senior Care Live on the Senior Care Broadcasting Network. For podcasts of the program, visit SeniorCareLive.com or wherever you get your podcast. So I have been asked this about a million times here recently. I think, and well, maybe not quite a million, maybe a hundred thousand. so every time I get the same question many times in a short period of time or a short time frame, I always feel like that's a little bit of a nudge. Like I need to talk about that on Senior Care Live. How about that? So let's jump into the most commonly or frequently asked question I have received since 2002. And that is, Steve, when should we move? When should we consider moving from our home to a senior care community? Okay, so sometimes it's pretty obvious. And something happens and it kind of forces your hand, or it's just it's just incredibly obvious. Most of the time it's not that obvious. It falls into that gray area. You know, and like I was just speaking with our friend JC Pfeister, and so many 90%, 90% of us say we would rather stay at home. And we're able to do that by having you know family caregivers, friend caregivers, I just generally say family and friend caregivers, just kind of lump those two groups together. And then you can also, again, bring in the professional services of a home care provider, in this case, seniors helping seniors. Maybe there isn't enough family members available to help out, or maybe they're very limited. So you bring in seniors helping seniors, and you're able to accomplish that and remain independent in your home for I mean it could be for years to come, years and years to come. But at some point, you may need to make a move. So when do you do that? And I like to say that the following things should trigger at least having a conversation of considering moving from your home to a senior care community. So, number one, and this is kind of a no-brainer, when it is no longer safe to live at home. So a lot, and and you'll notice that a lot of these examples really fall in line with someone who has dementia at home. They're forgetting to do things and that sort of thing. So you you don't may not have dementia and still have some of these safety issues, but the one that I hear about most often leaving the stovetop burners on, either electric or I think even worse, gas, because you got that exposed open flame. I can't tell you how many times people have said, Yeah, mom, mom left the stovetop burners on and caught the kitchen on fire, but we we got it, but oh boy, there's a lot of damage, and you know, you hear about these things all the time. I have a client recently, very recently, in fact, I get this call on Christmas Eve morning. Steve, my sister is out of her apartment, she had something cooking on the stove, she ran in to take a quick shower, she came back out to a full-on fire. So we're assuming somehow leaving something cooking on the stovetop turned into this fire. I don't know, I don't know all the details if there was maybe like a dish rag or something too close or a paper towel, and that thing lit up, and she's in here taking a shower. She comes out, lost literally everything, like burnt the whole place the whole apartment complex down. Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve. So I had to figure out a placement in literally no time at all on Christmas Eve. And guess what? We got the job done. That was tough. Kind of pulled rabbit out of the hat, but we got it done. So leaving the stovetop burners on. One of my clients, this has been for quite a while ago, we two daughters living like within a block of mom. Mom had dementia, so they put cameras up all over the house, and they're constantly checking in on mom, making sure she's taking her medicine at the right time, or maybe calling her to remind her to take her medicine, then watch her do it, because they have these cameras going. And they checked in on mom, and mom was walking over to the burner. She had already turned it on, it was literally glowing red hot, and they're like, oh, that that looks kind of scary, kind of dangerous. And mom had opened a can of hormel chili. She loved her chili. Now she had dementia, so keep that in mind. She poured the can of chili directly on the burner. She forgot to put the pan on the burner and then poured the chili in the pan because she had dementia. She knows how to do this. This is dementia talking here. They watched her do this and they're like, ah. So they go tearing down the down the street. They're like a block away. And they went in, they're like, no, no, mom. And it was smoking and just it didn't catch on fire, just made a huge mess. But the stovetop burners, I just I just can't, I have dozens of stories about stovetop burners. Now the good news is they're super easy to take care of. You unplugged this the electric oven and stovetop, or you flip the breaker to disable it. If it's gas, usually there's a gas shutoff. If there isn't, hire someone to come out to put a gas shutoff on and shut the thing down. So that one's pretty easy to take care of. Uh wandering away and you just can't find your way back home. Two types. Well, Steve Dad goes out for a walk every day. He walks around the block, a couple of different blocks, comes back, no problem. Well, today he didn't come home. So we had to call the police, and they found him about a half mile away. And dad said, I got a little confused and I wasn't quite sure where I was, so I just kept on walking. So you did you can't have that? That's a major safety issue. The other flavor of that one is driving away and not finding your way back home, ending up in another state or two away. One of my clients recently, they weren't sure when to engage senior care consulting to help them find a senior care community for their mom who did have who does have dementia. They weren't sure when to do this until one day, mom ended about a hundred miles away. And they had put out a silver alert. The police had her license tag number and you know description and a picture of her all throughout Kansas. And on a Saturday night, and the family, they were they were just scared to pieces. And they get this call about, I don't know, midnight, one o'clock that Saturday night. We found your mother, she was lost, she's okay, and we're gonna bring her home. I get a call the next morning. How fast can you help us find a place? Because I mean it's it's a huge deal. And sometimes these silver alerts usually they end up okay, but not always, unfortunately. Uh malnutrition and dehydration. These are some of the more obvious ones. Just not eating properly, not drinking properly, not taking care of yourself in in that way. Unsanitary living conditions due to the inability just to take care of things. And the house is a mess, and food's out, and the bathroom is just a wreck, and you know, the whole thing. Just because it can't take care of it. Injuries at home, frequent falls, frequent hospitalization. Steve, my dad's been in and out of the hospital five times in the last three months. Okay, these are some of the more obvious ones, right? Okay, well, you you better get someone to come in to be with him, or he's going to need to move to a senior care community where there's 24-hour supervision. This one flies under the radar pretty big time, but this is a major safety issue. Not taking your medications on time, maybe not taking your medications at all. So as we get older, it's more and more important, maybe more important than ever before, to take your medications properly. That is a huge, huge safety issue. And then, of course, you have elder financial abuse, the on the finance, obviously, physical abuse, mental and emotional abuse, all of those things. If and and that, oh, that one makes me see red. And I've heard way too many stories about that. But the bottom line is when to consider moving from your home to a senior care community. Number one, when you have a safety issue at home, it's no longer safe to live at home, and that should definitely trigger the conversation of considering moving from your home to a senior care community. And coming up next, I'll have more examples of when you should consider moving.

Speaker 2 32:42

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Speaker 33:01

You're listening to Senior Care Live on the Senior Care Broadcasting Network. Have a question? Visit SeniorCareLive.com. All right, back to the number one asked question I've had since 2002. I have been asked this question maybe a million times. Maybe a couple million times. Steve, when should we consider moving? When what's the right time to move? We don't want to wait too long. We don't want to move too soon. We want to get it right. And you know what? I could just probably sum the whole thing up in this very basic statement. Move sooner than you think you need to, and you will never regret it. Let me state that again. This will keep you out of all kinds of trouble. As simple as that. Move sooner than you think you need to, and you will never regret it. I've not ever met one single person that regretted moving when they did. In fact, most people say we should have moved way sooner than that. And then wait too long. All right, so when should you consider moving from your home to senior care community? Number one, if there's a safety issue at home. Number two, this is a very close number two, or maybe a 1A. This one makes me crazy because it's completely preventable. When the caregiver's health and well-being are in decline, we're talking about the caregiver. And usually this is you know, it could be other examples, but usually it's an elderly spouse caring for an elderly spouse. But it could be the daughter caring for a mother or the or the son, you know, caring for a mom or dad. It could be a sister caring for a sister. Okay, when the caregiver's health and well-being are in decline, you cannot let that go. I'm gonna try not to scream and yell into my mic. You can't let that go on very long. When you see it happening, you gotta step in. You're gonna have to do something. We're talking about mental health, emotional health, spiritual health, and of course, physical health. So, as a caregiver, we love this person so much. We are 100% committed till death do we part. Okay, you place your own needs on the back burner. You stop going to your own doctor's appointments, you stop going to your social gatherings, you stop going to church, you withdraw from your friends and your family, and you're just zoned in, and you are an awesome, fantastic caregiver. No one could possibly ever do it better. But that comes at a price. Stress is a very powerful force. I get a call from a client, and this has been so many years ago, probably 10, 15 years ago. I'll never forget it though. And he was a character. He was a character. I love this guy. Steve, I served in the Korean War, and I've had a lot of difficulties in my life, but nothing like this. My wife had a stroke, and I I nursed her back to health. She bounced back, she did a great job. Boy, that took a lot out of me, but I I was I was happy to do it. I was proud. And I had my wife back. Well, she just had a second stroke, and this one was a massive stroke. And he said, Steve, I I can't keep up. I I can't do this anymore. And he said, I'm tired. And he said, I need you to help me find a care community, and then I'm out of here. And I said, Oh, okay, well, are you so we'll find a great place for her, and then are you gonna take a vacation, just kind of decompress? And he goes, No, Steve, I'm out of here. And then it dawned on me, and I'm like, oh my gosh. I now I understand what he's saying. And I panicked a little bit. I'm like, oh my gosh, what do I do with this? And so I said, sir, I understand, I understand that you're being literally crushed by the weight of being a caregiver. But let me tell you what, let's work together, and very quickly, I will find some excellent options. Once you choose one, get your wife moved into one of these care communities, your stress isn't going to leave immediately, it's going to shift. It's going to shift to the caregivers in this long-term care community. But once you see they're doing a good job, once you feel like you can trust them, then at that point, you're going to feel all of this stress start to melt off of your shoulders. And I I said, Sir, I'll guarantee you, you're going to change your mind. And I could hear hope coming into his voice. I heard it. And he goes, Really? Well, you think so? And so I could just hear this hope coming into his voice. And I said, Sir, I'm telling you, give me a chance here. I you're gonna change your mind. And he goes, Well, when can you come over? You think you can come over maybe next week sometime? And I said, How about tomorrow morning at eight o'clock? So he goes, Okay, okay. So I went over the next morning at eight o'clock. I jumped right on this. We found a great place. Hadn't gotten moved in yet, but we found a great place, getting ready to go. I'm in the grocery store. I'm at Price Chopper with my with my boys. I get this call. Hey, Steve, this is so-and-so, so-and-so's daughter. Yeah, yeah, how you doing? Well, not too good. Uh, my dad died. And I'm like, no way. And they found him passed away, laying on the couch, and they believed he suffered a massive heart attack from the stress. And now his daughters are coming in from out of town picking up the pieces. They said, We're so glad you worked with my with my dad. Let us get through the funeral and everything, and then could you help us? And I said, I'll do whatever you need, yes, I will help you. Right? So that man waited too long to ask for help. Help came just a little too late. Stress is a powerful force. Don't let that happen. Number three, if the cost of just bringing care into the home and landscaping and all these things, if that becomes cost prohibitive at some point, it could just be a financially driven decision. And then last but not least, when the care you provide is not enough, again, why not consider changing your role from the caregiver to the care manager? Together, we can go out and find a great place to provide excellent care for your loved one. And then you can go back to your original role of the loving spouse, the loving son or daughter. In my case, the loving grandson. I was the grandson with my grandparents, right? It's and we can help you. We can help you. This doesn't have to be daunting because we can do the vast majority of the work for you. We work for you and we work on behalf of you and your family and your loved one needing the care. At Senior Care Consulting, we offer a placement service with integrity. We work directly for you. We don't receive any reimbursement from any of the providers. If this is resonating with you, I would invite you to give me a call at 913-945-2800 or visit online at SeniorCareConsulting.com, and we can definitely help you. I'm Steve Kuker, and I wish you grace and peace. May God bless you and your family on this day and always. Join me next week, right here on Senior Care Live.