Leads from the Ohio Care Planning Council website

This website is designed to attract Internet users who are looking for specific eldercare services. These users can fill out a form that goes to the National Care Planning Council or they can call an 800 number to make specific requests. These requests are assigned to appropriate State Council care providers or advisers in the geographic area where the request is being made. Because of the design, listings on our state websites come up near the top of the list on Internet search engine requests.

We create for you, your own landing page (sample) on the State Council website. This page provides a description of you, your services, and can include a your picture and logo. A form is also provided for the public to request your services. These requests go directly to your email. Even though you may have your own website, we create this page for you to enhance the usability of the state website for the public.

Leads from direct referrals and phone call requests

Many calls for help are made to the National Council 800 number from persons who have heard about the State Care Planning Council through friends or relatives. Other requests come from brochures that have been distributed in the community or from referrals by senior support groups such as State aging services, hospital discharge workers, senior centers, the Alzheimer's Association and so on. These calls are processed by employees of the National Care Planning Council and any leads that result are given to appropriate State Care Planning Council members in the geographic area of request.

Membership in the National Care Planning Council

About the National Care Planning Council
The National Care Planning Council is a nationwide alliance of eldercare experts, advisers and providers who support and promote long term care planning.

Our statement of purpose:

• To promote a public awareness of the need for long term care planning.
• To provide materials to educate the public on how to plan for long term care.
• To provide training to member eldercare experts who help the public plan for long term care.
• To promote the services and expertise of our members.
• To provide a forum for members to share ideas and marketing strategies.

Listings on the national website to advertise your services
Your membership includes a listing (sample) on our websites -- "Long Term Care Link . Net and .Ai" -- as well as your own landing page (sample). If you do not want a landing page, we will instead link directly to your web site. If we link directly, it is up to you to keep track of your statistics. We will show up as a "referrer" to your site.

We track the number of visits each month to our members’ landing pages and we publish these statistics on the site. Last year, each landing page on our site received on average about 500 unique visits. With that many Internet users making the effort to link through and learn more about what you offer, it is likely a number of them will take the next step and contact you for services. Our websites, like longtermcarelink.net, longtermcarelink.ai, and this council site, combined receive over 400,000 unique visits each year.

Advertise your membership and use our logo
You may advertise your affiliation as a "member" or advertise your "membership" with the National Care Planning Council and use our logo (samples). Use the following description if you need to further clarify your relationship with us: "The National Care Planning Council is a nationwide alliance of eldercare experts, advisers and providers who promote and support long term care planning." If you use our logo on your web site please create a hyperlink from that logo back to our web site.

Networking with other members

The field of eldercare planning encompasses about 25 different specialties. Most of these services complement each other and overlap very little. There is a natural tendency for professional caregivers to collaborate and refer their services to each other; but, it is not common for financial advisers, attorneys, mediators, reverse mortgage specialists, senior real estate and other non-caregiver specialists to network with caregiving specialists. As our membership grows, it is our intent to bring these two "camps" together to provide comprehensive, "one-stop shopping" solutions to families dealing with the challenge of long term care.

Unlimited use of articles

As a member, you have our permission to reproduce and distribute the articles stored in our member section. You may use this material for commercial purposes relating to the promotion and support of long term care planning. Since it is our intent to make this information freely available to the public, you may not profit from the sale of any reproductions of our site material. We do not give you permission to publish any of this material in book form or as a pamphlet.

Special noncompetitive resource site for your clients

We have created a special resource web site for your clients that does not list any competitors or any competing services. This site includes our popular "Guide to Long Term Care Planning" as well as numerous lists and links to useful web site services. The domain for this special site is longtermcarelink.net/a13information_guide.htm. You may link to this special resource from your website or refer your clients to it.