Senior Care Live

Send us Fan Mail Tune in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek from Home Downsizing Solutions. Ben discusses the five connected services that typically accompany selling your house and moving to a senior care community.  With Home Downsizing Solutions, it’s much more than a real estate decision and transaction. Ben explains this transition is such a majo...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South. JC explains the difference between “homecare” and “home health care”, they are two very different services. He also reviews how Seniors Helping Seniors can help a person remain independent in their own home without needing to move to a sen...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with David Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care and Bill Riek, Associate Director of Gift Planning at KCHPC to discuss Estate Planning Awareness Week. Bill reviews the top-3 components of an estate plan and the importance of each one. Spoiler alert: If you don't specify your...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with David Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care and Caryn Hohnholt, Chief Development and Communications Officer, with KCHPC.  David shares that KC Hospice earned Hospice CAHPS Honors recognition from MatrixCare for the 5th time, based on the experiences and feedback shared...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in to a SPECIAL 13TH ANNIVERSARY EPISODE of Senior Care Live as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Bruce Glenn, Senior Wealth Manager and President of Rally Wealth and Benefits. Bruce provides an economic overview and market update and discusses new investment and planning trends.  Steve discusses how Senior Care Live began 13 years ago and e...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek, owner of Home Downsizing Solutions. Ben discusses how to determine the value of your house comparing values of a house in pristine condition to a house requiring upgrades and repairs.  Ben also discusses how to find a trusted cash home buyer.  Pro tip: compare the time to close with a legi...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South.  JC shares how Seniors Helping Seniors can help you remain independent in your own home with a little help from one of their amazing caregivers and avoid having to move to a senior care community.  Learn about what every family should ask...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with David Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care and Kristin Dow, Chaplain with KCHPC.  David recognizes and thanks all the dedicated KC Hospice staff and other healthcare workers who will be working throughout the Independence Day holiday weekend, they really are heroes! Dav...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, reviews the Top 10 Reasons you could be discharged from Assisted Living and how to avoid an unwanted discharge from your chosen community.  Don’t miss the Consumer Alert regarding some seriously incorrect and inaccurate information being shared in the market!  Then, Steve and Darren Wilhite (the producer of Senior...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, reviews what to determine BEFORE beginning your search for a senior care community.  Spoiler alert: this will decrease your time spent by at least 50%!  Then, Steve reviews the primary levels of care and their associated monthly costs. #SeniorCare #SeniorCareLive #SeniorCareConsulting #SeniorLiving #KansasCitySenior...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South. Steve shares his Home Care Provider Screening Tool and JC addresses how Seniors Helping Seniors responds to many of the great questions included in the questionnaire. Spoiler alert: JC goes way above and beyond in every category of the scr...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, celebrates the 24th ANNIVERSARY of his firm Senior Care Consulting. Tune in to the top of the program to hear from a special guest, a celebrity appearance in studio, all we can say is there may have been a song written by this guest for the 24th Anniversary show!   Then, Steve addresses his most frequently asked q...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek from Home Downsizing Solutions.  Ben reviews the many FREE resources available at www. HomeDownsizing.com and his new FREE ‘stress-free home downsizing workbook’ that can help with the downsizing process as well as the 5 different options available from HDS when selling your house.  Then, S...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with David Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care and Dr. Iman Williams Christians, Director of Grief Support and Counseling with KC Hospice.  Dr. Iman discusses the many grief support programs provided by Kansas City Hospice and you may be surprised to learn, all are welcome...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek, owner of Home Downsizing Solutions. Don’t miss the Senior Care In The News Report of a local home buyer scamming Kansas homeowners, according to a lawsuit from the State’s Attorney General.  Ben explains how to spot a service like this and compares that to how his firm does business, the r...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South.  Steve and JC discuss how Seniors Helping Seniors can help you remain independent in your own home for years to come.  Steve describes a typical day and many of the issues experienced in the life of SO many seniors who are struggling to li...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with David Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care and Patty Poore, RN, Director of Clinical Services with KCHPC.  David and Patty discuss their Veteran’s Program honoring every veteran’s service at the end of life, their involvement in Honor Flight, and the KC Hospice Nurse Ho...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, provides an overview of how the “free” referral services work.  Don’t miss the Consumer Alert where Steve shares publicly available better business bureau reviews of a “free” referral service.  Then, Steve explains an alternative with Senior Care Consulting, “a placement service with integrity”.  #SeniorCare #Seni...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, provides an overview of “how to pay for the high cost of senior care” including Medicare, Medicaid, Long Term Care Insurance, and the VA Aid and Attendance Benefit.  #SeniorCare #SeniorCareLive #SeniorCareConsulting #SeniorLiving #KansasCitySeniorCare #SeniorCarePlacement #SeniorCareAdvisor #Franchise #SeniorCareF...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek, owner of Home Downsizing Solutions. Don’t miss the Senior Care In The News Report of a local home buyer scamming Kansas homeowners, according to a lawsuit from the State’s Attorney General.  Ben explains how to spot a service like this and compares that to how his firm does business, the r...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with David Wiley, President & CEO of Kansas City Hospice.  David addresses mainstream media stories on fraud in hospice and the impact it’s having on the industry as a whole, and while some bad actors are exploiting regulatory gaps, Kansas City Hospice works hard every day to preserve access to high-qua...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Bruce Glenn, Senior Wealth Manager and President of Rally Wealth and Benefits. Bruce addresses the Sandwich Generation and answers the questions; “What’s the biggest financial mistake people make when trying to support aging parents while still planning for their own retirement?”, “How can someone help...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South.  Steve and JC discuss how Seniors Helping Seniors can help you remain independent at home for years to come.  JC introduces Margie Burton, Caregiver of The Year for Seniors Helping Seniors KC Metro South.  Margie shares stories of how she...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with Ben Souchek, owner of Home Downsizing Solutions. Ben discusses how his company buys houses “as is” from individuals who value the convenience of this service, shares a story of helping a recent client, and compares and contrasts the HDS model to that of the wholesaler’s model. Don’t miss the Consumer A...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as host Steve Kuker, President of Senior Care Consulting, visits with JC Pfeister, Owner of Seniors Helping Seniors - KC Metro South.  Steve and JC discuss how Seniors Helping Seniors can help you remain independent at home for years to come.  What makes Seniors Helping Seniors different than other homecare providers?  It’s in the name, it’s their caregivers.  With an av...