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 […]

Top Home Care Trends For 2025

The spotlight on personal home care has gotten brighter in recent years, and that will continue in 2025. The population will continue to age, while payment models, regulatory policy and technological innovation will continue to enable more people to receive care in their preferred setting – their own home. But despite these tailwinds, the path […]

Red Light, Green Light, Yellow Light: Where Home Care Franchises Stand With Company-Owned Locations

Company-owned — or corporate-owned — locations are generally a staple at home care franchise companies. These locations are largely associated with experimentation. In recent years, some franchise companies have chosen to double down on these locations, while others have not. Some have even gone in the other direction, and begun to re-franchise former company-owned locations. […]

How Home-Based Care Providers Are Approaching The GUIDE Model

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model on July 1, which aims to create more comprehensive, coordinated dementia care. Some home-based care providers have been named participants in the program, and many more plan to get involved. CMS hopes the GUIDE Model will improve the […]

‘We Need To Try Different Things’: How 6 Home Care Providers Stand Out In A Crowded Market

In a crowded home care ecosystem, companies are constantly looking for ways to stand out. For some that means putting innovative solutions in practice that will enhance operations and care services. For others, that means developing deep local roots to strengthen services in various communities. On top of this, home care companies are rolling out […]

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 […]

5 Things To Know About The Waud Capital-Backed Senior Helpers

One of the biggest home-based care deals of the year thus far was Waud Capital’s acquisition of Senior Helpers. The Maryland-based franchise – which was previously owned by the health system Advocate Health – will be the foundation of Waud Capital’s home care platform moving forward. Overseeing that platform will be Steve Jakubcanin, the home-based […]