Idea 347 of 500. Cluster 17: Health, care and the parents of Sri Lankans abroad
Physiotherapy at home for the elderly, subscription-priced
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
Find one qualified physiotherapist willing to make home visits in the evenings, and agree a price per visit between you. Ask a family doctor or a ward sister which older patients go home after a fall or an operation, and leave a card with a monthly package: 4 visits and a written note to the family. The first family to buy a month tells you the price works.
- Who pays first
- A child abroad whose parent has come home from hospital with exercises to do, and who wants a professional to supervise them without flying back.
- What leaves today
- Qualified physiotherapists leave for jobs abroad; home visits paid for by Sri Lankans abroad give them a reason and a wage to stay.
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
- 342Assisted-living homes for the parents of Sri Lankans abroad, with the standard published and inspected
- 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
Idea 347 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.