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Customer Retention App for Adult Day Centers
A customer retention app for adult day centers keeps families enrolled by reminding them about physician forms, attendance changes and holiday closures before those things become a problem. SIZ Group would build it for iOS and Android so the reminders read as if the center's own staff wrote them.
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How family follow-up happens today, and where families drift away
Retention at an adult day center usually sits with the intake coordinator or the director, who calls when a family is late paying or when a participant has been absent for a while. Nobody sends a reminder that a physician form expires in March, so the family finds out when the center asks for a new copy.
Attendance drift is the quiet loss. A participant who attended three days a week can drop to one after a household routine changes, and the center may not notice for a month. The family then moves to another program, or to a home setting, without a conversation that could have changed the outcome.
- Physician forms that lapse without a reminder
- Attendance falling from three days to one, unnoticed
- Holiday schedule questions that get no reply
- Discharge planners who never hear how a referral turned out
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How families and referral partners choose, and what that means here
Families looking for adult day care often start with a discharge planner, an Area Agency on Aging or a friend who has used a program. They compare the schedule, the transport offer, the cost and how staff speak about the participant. Many visit two centers before choosing, and the tour often settles the decision. Families who go quiet rarely complain first, so the agency has to notice the silence itself.
The retention app is part of that relationship. Families who feel informed about schedules and forms are more likely to stay and to recommend the center. For this project, the app keeps those small moments of attention going without adding work to the front desk.
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What the marketing manager needs proven before signing off
The marketing manager should see whether families stay enrolled longer, whether attendance holds through summer and holiday breaks and whether referral partners keep sending people. We would agree the measures before launch: renewal forms completed before the deadline, attendance days per participant each month and re-enrollment after a break.
Messages must sound like the center, not a sales team. Each reminder names the form or schedule change it refers to, comes from a named staff member and is easy to stop. The center approves every template before it goes live. Staff should be able to see which reminder went to which family, so no two people contact the same family with conflicting messages.
What you get
Key features
Schedule change prompts
When attendance drops, the app offers a quick way to review the schedule with the intake coordinator.
Holiday and break planning
Reminders ahead of closures and summer breaks, with a short way to book the days a family wants.
Welcome-back messages
A short note from the family's staff contact after a break or hospital stay, with an offer to call.
Preference controls
Families choose which message types they receive and can change that at any time.
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Consent, health privacy and funder rules that apply
Retention messages can touch health information. A reminder that mentions a missed medication-related appointment can reveal care details, so messages should stay generic, such as a request to call the office. Text messages need recorded consent, and email must follow opt-out rules.
Centers should also check the contact rules of any funded program they work with, since some payers restrict how participants are contacted about services. The center's compliance adviser signs off the message rules and the retention period for family contact data before anything goes live.
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What drives cost and timeline, and how to keep scope under control
Pricing follows four things: how many kinds of reminder the center sends, which channels carry them, how much history the app keeps for each family and how far it reads from attendance and forms records. Mobile apps start at $4,500, and the scoping call turns those four answers into a figure.
A short reminder list tied to real events, such as a form expiry or a closure, makes the best first release. Referral dashboards, reward ideas and broad campaigns can wait for a later release, and updates to wording and new reminder types are covered by post-launch support.
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How to measure whether the app is working
Track the figures the center already reports to its board: enrollment, average attendance days per participant, renewals completed on time and the number of referrals that become enrollments. Record the last twelve months before launch, so the first real comparison is fair. Compare the first months against a pre-launch baseline rather than against a target set by anyone outside the center.
Review the numbers each month. If a reminder does not change behavior after several sends, rewrite it or stop it. The goal is fewer, better messages that families welcome, not a steady stream they learn to ignore.
- Renewals completed before the form deadline
- Average attendance days per participant each month
- Enrollments returning after a summer or holiday break
- Referral partners receiving a status note each quarter
Will families see this as a sales message?+
They should not, and the content is built to avoid it. Each message refers to something the family needs to do, such as a form or a schedule, and it comes from a named staff member. Families can switch off any type they do not want.
How do we know a reminder worked?+
The app records whether a reminder was opened and whether the form was uploaded or the schedule changed inside the window. That shows a link, not proof of cause. Where practical, we recommend comparing against families who did not receive the reminder.
Do we need our attendance system to connect to the app?+
It helps. Reminders work best when they use real attendance and form dates, so we check what your records system can share. If it cannot share them, the center can upload a weekly list instead.
Can the app help us win back families who left?+
It can send one or two respectful follow-ups, offer a call and record the reply. It should stop as soon as a family asks it to. We agree the number of follow-ups before launch, so the center does not overreach.
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Book a free call to match your reminders against your form dates, and receive the scope and price in writing afterward.