18 Home-Based Care Providers Rank On Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500 List

Eighteen home-based care companies managed to grab a spot on Entrepreneur’s recently released 2025 Franchise 500 ranking. Companies like Senior Helpers, Right at Home and FirstLight Home Care are making return appearances on the list after earning a spot last year. The fact that a number of home-based care franchise businesses are represented on the […]

Another State Faces The Pros, Cons Of Standardizing Home Care 

Home care providers are now required to be licensed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). These new regulations took effect on Aug. 20, 2024. By licensing these agencies, the state establishes standards that they must follow, as well as mechanisms for oversight and enforcement actions in cases of non-compliance. Additionally, there […]

Where Honor, Home Instead Want AI To Take Home Care

Three years after Honor acquired Home Instead, its goal is not to grow through franchise expansion or acquisition. Instead, it’s trying to find ways for current locations to double, triple and quadruple their current censuses. In part, it plans to open up that opportunity through advanced technology, including artificial intelligence. During a recent long and […]

‘Showing, Not Telling’: How Honor Has Repaired Its Relationship With Home Instead Franchisees

After Honor acquired Home Instead in 2021, many Home Instead franchisees were not sold on the strategic direction they were given. They believed Honor’s model lacked a “proof of concept,” and were unwilling to alter operations to appease their new parent organization. But, over the last few years, a lot of the friction between Honor […]

The Most Game-Changing Home-Based Care Blockbusters Of The Last Decade

Thanks to impactful, large-scale transactions over the last decade, the collective face of home-based care has changed forever. Traditional providers in both home health care and personal home care have merged. Payers became involved in the home-based care space like never before. Of late, retailers have too. But it’s often easy to forget how the […]

Home Instead Set To Hit Gas Pedal On Recruitment Efforts

After finding that one in five Americans saw a notable decline in an aging family member’s well-being during the holidays, Home Instead has announced that it’s looking to hire 30,000 care professionals nationwide. It is common for Home Instead to see a spike in care service inquiries soon after the holidays, according to Lakelyn Hogan […]

HCAOA Names New Board Members; Honor Appoints New Chief Communications Officer

Home Care Association of America names new board members The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) has made several appointments to its board of directors. Based in Washington D.C., HCAOA is an advocacy organization comprised of over 3,500 home care organizations. Earlier this year, Jason Lee took over as CEO of the association. Joining HCAOA’s […]