Idea 342 of 500. Cluster 17: Health, care and the parents of Sri Lankans abroad
Assisted-living homes for the parents of Sri Lankans abroad, with the standard published and inspected
The mechanism, from the book
Sri Lankans abroad have parents at home whom they cannot look after from Melbourne. They will pay, and the money stays.
Every idea in cluster 17 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Write a one-page standard for the residence you would run: staff per resident, meals, visiting hours, what gets inspected and by whom, and a monthly price range. Send it to 20 Sri Lankans abroad through a Sri Lankan association's newsletter and ask one question: would they pay a refundable deposit to hold a room for a parent. The deposits, or the objections, become your design brief.
- Who pays first
- A child abroad whose widowed parent lives alone, who wants a published standard to point to before asking that parent to move.
- What leaves today
- Sri Lankans abroad already pay for care they cannot inspect; a published, inspected standard is the proof that turns that money into a building, jobs and fees on the island.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. EightWhat It Costs to Go First
Remittances and what it costs the first one to go - Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
The institutions already in existence that could carry value back
More from cluster 17
- 341Home-care agencies with trained, vetted carers, booked and paid from abroad
- 343A daily check-in service: a nurse's visit, a photograph, a message to the child abroad
- 344Medical escort services: a nurse takes the parent to the appointment and reports back
- 345Pharmacy delivery with the prescription managed and the refills tracked
- 346Dementia day-care centres, which hardly exist yet and are needed everywhere
- 347Physiotherapy at home for the elderly, subscription-priced
Idea 342 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.