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Seeing a Need for Superior Home Healthcare, Couple Draws on their Medical Background to Make a Difference in the Lives of Seniors<\/strong><\/p>\n

As physical therapists, Jennifer and Richard Ueberfluss<\/a> understood how to alleviate physical pain in their patients and how pain impacted their standard of living. \u00a0After broadening their practices, they realized that while their contact with patients was confined to individual sessions, it did not paint the entire picture of all the factors that impacted their patients\u2019 physical and mental health.<\/p>\n

They began recognizing this trend while the couple was working in a rural critical access hospital in downstate Illinois. Richard was also an executive for the hospital, and began recognizing the importance of uniting a medical sense with a more wholistic care sense in the home.<\/p>\n

This led to Richard making the ambitious choice to begin his own business.\u00a0 He was attracted to franchising and loved the idea of helping people similar to his medical profession. But he didn\u2019t want to be a franchisee for a fast food outlet or a business in which he did not have a background.<\/p>\n

The couple wanted to stay true to their embrace of working within a caring profession and wanted to help people using their considerable talents.<\/p>\n

A friend of theirs recommended the in-home care business, reflecting the demographic trend that showed a large increase in elderly clients needing long-term care as they aged. It seemed like a perfect fit for their physical therapist backgrounds, since physical therapists are experts in many facets of senior care<\/a>: fall prevention, proper lifting, home safety and all the Activity of Daily living needs that caregivers and CNA\u2019s perform with their clients at home. They became an Assisting Hands franchisee in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n

During their time in various inpatient, outpatient and skilled rehab settings a general theme occurred to them about hospital readmissions.<\/p>\n

They realized two major factors that led to hospital readmissions<\/p>\n