Tag: VGM Live at Home

The home accessibility product category remains strong and continues to provide business opportunities for HME providers. It’s also a market that has been accelerated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic and an influx in aging baby boomers, specialists in the field say.  “From summer 2021 to 2022, the industry was growing at 20% above previous periods,” said Jim Greatorex, vice president of Waterloo, Iowa-based VGM Live at Home, a division of VGM Group. “There has been...

WATERLOO, Iowa – VGM Live at Home has a number of new agreements lined up that will help to position the home accessibility market for “rapid growth” by the end of this year, says Jim Greatorex.  “The home accessibility market is at a turning point,” said Greatorex, vice president of VGM Live at Home. “There’s going to be real, rapid growth by the end of this year and into 2022, where’s it’s going to be really noticeable.”  Here’s...

COVID-19 kept everyone home during the pandemic’s ascension, triggering a strong interest in home modifications and jumpstarting demand for home accessibility products and services. A year later, that demand hasn’t waned, specialists in the field say; if anything, they say, it continues to escalate.  “Demand for home accessibility is not slowing down but growing,” said Jim Greatorex, vice president of Waterloo, Iowa-based VGM Live at Home. “Things were a little...

WATERLOO, Iowa – VGM Live at Home has developed a select member program to help standardize the process of connecting home access companies with insurers and other organizations. The program provides insurers and other organizations with home access companies that all provide a certain set of services and that all have at least one master certified environmental access consultant on staff. “In talking with our members – we’ve had talks with big, kind of regional companies...

WATERLOO, Iowa - VGM Live at Home is slated to launch an upgraded digital platform for home accessibility companies at the Heartland Conference this week. A number of companies were beta testing VGM Live at Home Pro 2.0 prior to the conference, in April and May. “We had 26 companies sign up to beta test it and, although not all of them became active testers, it shows how much interest there is in the tool,” said Jim Greatorex, vice president of VGM Live at Home. The first change...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - AccessNSM, a division of National Seating & Mobility, has joined the VGM Live at Home nationwide community of home accessibility providers and certified modification contractors. NSM says the partnership will connect AccessNSM with VGM's network of business tools and resources, as well as vendor programs. “The new partnership with VGM is a natural fit for AccessNSM,” said Kalen McKenzie, vice president of the division. “VGM has made great strides bringing...

The home medical equipment industry is poised to benefit from the “aging in place” movement, especially on the home modification front. If Congress approves a proposed $30,000 tax credit for seniors to modify their homes, it could serve as motivation for more HME providers to enter the business, manufacturers say. Currently being considered in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senior Accessible Housing Act (HR 1780) would “amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide...

On potential need “We're going to have 8.3 million people over 80 in 2030,” said Jim Greatorex, vice president of Accessible Home Improvement of America, a division of the VGM Group, “and we have homes for less than half of them that they can be safe in and live in and thrive in in their senior years.” On potential savings “For 75% percent of people over 65 who go to the ER, the cause of their visit is a slip or fall, something home modifications can help...

WASHINGTON - A bill in the House of Representatives that would give seniors a $30,000 tax credit for modifying their homes to help them age in place now has some firepower behind it. A new group called HomesRenewed has been created, in part, to help raise awareness for the “Senior Accessible Housing Act,” which was introduced in late March by Reps. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., and Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine. “H.R. 1780 is a starting place to make this a national issue,” said...

WATERLOO, Iowa - Look for an amped up presence from The VGM Group's Accessible Home Improvement of America in 2017. Jim Greatorex, formerly of VGM's Retail Services division and before that the owner of an HME company that worked with local contractors on home modifications, took the helm of AHIA in December. “This is a really good opportunity for providers,” said Greatorex, vice president of AHIA. “The home modifications market is going to be faster growing in the...