Franchise Facts

• Your local IKOR^® franchise can be a home-based business initially; though we expect that client and staff requirements will typically necessitate moving to office space at some point as your business grows.
  
  
• You will employ both Registered Nurses and Personal Needs Coordinators (staff with bookkeeping/accounting skills) to assist you in attending to your clients' needs.
  
  
• All advocacy services provided by your business are expected to be coordinated by Registered Nurses who are experienced and board certified in specialties specific to the needs of the elderly or disabled.
  
  
• As a franchise owner with IKOR, you provide advocacy services to the elderly and disabled, designed to empower clients to the greatest extent possible.
  
  
• When the role of professional guardian becomes necessary, IKOR^® adds another valuable and essential member to the team: a Personal Needs Coordinator, who follows the recommendations of the Registered Nurse in charge of the client account and can handle such tasks as paying bills, making required purchases for important life items, and more.
  
  
• You and your trained professionals will help determine the best options to handle all your clients' life needs, by meeting with a client, assessing medical and environmental conditions, and most important, listening to what your clients want.
  
  
• Objective information is collected and used to formulate recommendations that meet the emotional as well as physical needs of your clients.
  
  
• Then, your team creates and puts into action both short-term and long-term strategic plans. This is done by having your team interact with the client and a wide range of care givers and service providers, as well as others, to ensure that what is needed is being done.
  
  
• Your IKOR^® team will oversee this process on behalf of clients. And, they will continue to monitor clients to make sure they continue to receive a high quality of service and support, and will proactively recommend modifications when needed.
  
  
• Together, your dedicated team can analyze and monitor all important aspects of the client's life, such as configuration of the living environment, assuring availability of necessary items, and the coordination of all prior, current, and future financial demands.
  
  
• Though most of your business can be conducted during regular business hours, flexibility is key when dealing with the needs of a wide variety of clients. It's all part of the IKOR^® philosophy of putting the client first.
  
  
• You and your staff will never feel like you are on your own. The IKOR^® USA organization is dedicated to providing the start-up support and the ongoing assistance you need, in order to establish and operate an efficient and effective advocacy services business