Our beginning goes back to 2002. That year I was very fortunate to be one of 15 Long Term Care (LTC) experts selected to help start the Federal government’s Long Term Care Insurance Plan. This was the largest Long Term Care education effort in U.S. history.
I conducted over 200 classes on LTC for federal employees, retirees and their families throughout the western U.S. on behalf of the U.S Office of Personnel Management. The response to my classes was amazing! People desperately wanted information- accurate and impartial information- right now because they had found themselves unexpectedly throw into the role of caregiver and/or decision maker for an older relative. All too often with a sudden need for information on LTC ask simple and heartfelt questions and receive answers that are so complicated they make the confusion worse. Some people in the LTC arena love to use complicated phrases and jargon as if they are actually reluctant to share their knowledge.
Having a background as a newspaper reporter helped me greatly in figuring out how to simplify information that can be very complicated. I worked hard to give my information in a way that was easy for people to understand and I used stories to convey information and aid in memory retention.
After the great success of the Federal LTC effort in 2002 I founded a company that in time became LTC Education Specialists. In 2002 we were awarded a contract by the largest insurance company in the U.S. providing group Long Term Care Insurance. My company began to conduct LTC education classes for the employees of Fortune 500 firms, state and local governments and universities that were implementing their own Long Term Care Insurance.
The Women’s Long Term Care Project is a new effort to conduct live educational programs at the grass roots level available nationwide. These sessions could be open to the public or offered for members of a specific group or organization.
If you are involved with a group or organization that would like to sponsor or facilitate one of our classes please contact me at grimesltc@gmail.com or feel free to call me at 949-370-1464.
Thanks!
Don Grimes