Start with Placement

By Allen Chaney

Most people who enter senior care start in the wrong place.

They launch a home care agency. They open an assisted living home. They build a team, acquire a license, sign a lease - and then spend the next two years discovering the truth that should have come first: senior care runs on trust. And trust flows from relationships you don't have yet.

Start With Placement is the book that changes the order.

Written by Allen Chaney - founder of a licensed assisted living and home care operation in Maryland and creator of the ASPC model - this is the operational guide for anyone who wants to build a senior care business the smart way. Not the hardest way. The right way.

A senior placement agency costs almost nothing to launch. No staff. No caregiver callouts. No scheduling software, no compliance audits, no facility lease. What it does require - and what it builds, from day one - is the exact network of relationships that every home care agency and assisted living home depends on to survive.

Social workers. Discharge planners. Elder law attorneys. Case managers. When you're a placement agent, these people want to know you. You solve their problem. You become a trusted resource before you become an operator. And when the time comes to expand - to add home care, to open your own AL home, to build the full stack - you expand into a market that already knows your name.

Inside this book: Why senior care is a trust economy - and why marketing dollars alone will never fix a referral problemThe five startup advantages that make placement the superior entry pointHow to build your first 10 community partnerships and your referral network from scratchThe family intake process - how to assess, guide, and place with confidenceExactly how placement fees work and how you get paidWhen and how to add home care, assisted living, and consulting to your portfolioThe full ASPC stack: Placement → Home Care → AL → Consulting
Whether you haven't started yet, you're already operating and wondering why growth feels hard, or you've been around long enough to know the referral network is the real asset - this book will reorient your strategy around what actually works.

Start with placement. Build on ground that holds.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H26RZ1F4
• ISBN13: 9798197411327
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"