“What if we built a dementia care program ourselves?”

The short answer? Yes. Of course you and your team can work to build and roll out a dementia care program without outside assistance.

Here’s are 10 reasons you might want to think twice about doing that:

1. Everyone who works at your company already has a full-time job, and building and rolling out a dementia care program is an entirely separate job.
2. Hiring someone full-time to create and roll out a program is expensive—far more expensive, especially with benefits—than it is to bring on Dementia By Day to create and roll out the program for you.
3. This is all we do at Dementia By Day. You’re leaning on professionals who have done this many times over, successfully, for a variety of clients from all over the country. We have a proven process and a specific plan for how to make this happen.
4. We build the intellectual property for you, including the logo and brand kit. You get to keep all that IP. There’s no worry that we’ll be using your brand in the future—it belongs to you.
5. We built Dementia By Day School, a platform for your entire team to receive dementia care education. It’s included with our consulting packages. If you build your own program, you’ll also be looking for a training and education platform.
6. Most (if not all) of our clients have already attempted to build their own dementia care program before coming to us. Some have chosen another consultant’s pre-packaged dementia care program and tried to roll that out, but found execution at each building wasn’t the same.
7. We’re the only dementia consultants out there who do what we do. We’re the only consultants who will help you build a dementia care program that suits your company’s needs and is unique to what you offer. Every other consulting firm offers pre-packaged, pre-developed dementia care programs that you buy-and-apply to your buildings.
8. We’ll help you hire a corporate director (if that is on your to-do list!) to oversee the program after our contract ends. For many of our clients, we stay on as consultants and fill this role for far less than your team would pay a full-time hire. We also continue to provide access to Dementia By Day School.
9. We do all the heavy lifting. We’ll even help your buildings hire Dementia Care Directors. Your team can continue to do the good work they’re already doing, without worrying about overseeing the dementia care project.
10. We’re easy to reach. As one CEO said, “Rachael, when I call you, you answer. When I tried [another consultant], I never even spoke to them. I love that you answer the phone.” We’re incredibly hands-on and will work 1:1 with your team members at a building level to ensure your program rollout is the absolute best it can be.

If you’re thinking about bringing on team Dementia By Day to manage your program development, please reach out!