What does an owner commit to at A Place At Home?
A Place At Home gives an owner a territory of about 40,000 residents aged 65 and over. That is higher than most among home care systems.
Across 17 home care systems
How big are other systems' territories, next to A Place At Home's? →
How long you are in, and what leaving looks like
A standard A Place At Home territory holds about 40,000 residents aged 65 and over.
Standard territory size, across the systems measuring it the same way
Every system here sizes on residents aged 65 and over.
3 systems between the highest and lowest are not drawn here. The full field is in the data table below.
›View data & method
| System | Residents aged 65+ |
|---|---|
| A Place At Home | about 40,000 |
| Amada Senior Care | 32,000–42,000 |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | at least 25,000 |
| BrightStar Care | at least 15,000 |
| CareBuilders at Home | 30,000–40,000 |
| ComForCare | 25,000–35,000 |
| FirstLight Home Care | about 25,000 |
| Griswold | 25,000 |
| Home Instead | 10,000 |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | 30,000–50,000 |
| Homewatch CareGivers | 38,000–40,000 |
| HomeWell Care Services | 30,000–40,000 |
| Nurse Next Door | about 9,000 |
| One You Love Homecare | about 50,000 |
| Right at Home | at least 15,000 |
| Senior Helpers | 25,000–35,000 |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | about 20,000 |
Only systems that state a 65-and-over population are drawn: a system sizing on the whole population has measured something different, and the two are never ranked against each other. Where a filing says “at least” a number, the qualifier travels with the value.
No exclusive territory: Territory is not exclusive
about 40,000 people 65+p. 12 ↗
What an owner has to hit, and what happens if they miss
What an owner may not do
- Franchisee may only sell approved services and products as specified in the Manuals or approved in writing, and only those required by the franchisor.p. 48 ↗
- No limitation on to whom franchisee may sell, provided sales are made exclusively within the Operating Territory and as required by the franchisor.p. 48 ↗
- Franchisor reserves the unlimited right to change the products and services the franchisee must offer.p. 48 ↗
A Place At Home’s filing discloses 1 proceeding.
That is 2.0 per 100 locations, against 1.3 per 100 locations across the whole field. A count of proceedings mostly measures how large and how old a system is, which is why it is shown as a rate and never as a score.
- 2024 · decided by a court · CI 24-6579
Plaintiff served a Temporary Restraining Order seeking an injunction to prevent immediate and irreparable harm from the former franchisee's operation of a competing brand; claims that defendants breached eight franchise agreements and violated post-termination restrictive covenants including the covenant not to compete, and infringed plaintiff's trademarks.p. 12 ↗
How to read these terms
- Contract language does not summarize. Where a filing states a term in words, those words are what we publish, with the page they are on. Only the handful of terms that are genuinely numbers get compared with other systems.
- A territory is only comparable to one measured the same way. Some systems size on residents aged 65 and over, some on the whole population. We keep those apart and never rank one against the other.
- Disclosed cases are not a score. A count of proceedings mostly measures how big and how old a system is. We publish what each filing discloses, in its own words, with a rate per hundred locations so the count is not mistaken for a verdict.
›The numbers behind this page
What the agreement says about the minimums
- Brand fund you must pay: “Note 4: Brand Development Fund – The brand development fund fee is a continuing fee equal to an amount of up to 2% of your monthly Gross Sales, subject to a minimum of $150 per Territory per month (the "Brand Development Fund Fee").”
- Local marketing you must spend: “Note 5: Franchisee Directed Local Marketing – On a monthly and on-going basis you are required to spend not less than the greater of 2% of your monthly Gross Sales or $150 per Territory per month toward the marketing and promotion of your A Place At Home Business.”
- Royalty you owe regardless: “Renewal Term – During any applicable renewal term, the Monthly Minimum Royalty Fee shall be not less than the Monthly Minimum Royalty Fee applicable during Month 37 and shall be subject to increase as determined by us”
- Sales you must reach: “On-going, you are required to meet the following minimum annual Gross Sales requirements (the "Annual Minimum Gross Sales Requirements"): $200,000 in Gross Sales in the first year following the opening of the Franchised Business; and $400,000 in Gross Sales in the second year following the opening of the Franchised Business and each and every year thereafter.”
The proceedings, as the filing describes them
- “the Court issued an Order Granting Default Judgement against the defendants”
What this filing does not disclose
- Nothing material to this question is missing from this filing.
Every term on this page is read from A Place At Home’s own 2026 disclosure document, and the wording is the filing’s rather than ours. Territory sizes are compared only with systems measuring on the same basis. Disclosed proceedings are shown as the filing describes them, with their status where the filing states one. Source ↗
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