What does an owner commit to at Seniors Helping Seniors?
Seniors Helping Seniors runs its agreement for 10 years.
Across 22 home care systems
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How long you are in, and what leaving looks like
A standard Seniors Helping Seniors territory is sized on the whole population, at 250,000 people.
This size is shown on its own: Seniors Helping Seniors sizes territories on the whole population, so it has not made the same measurement as the systems that size on residents aged 65 and over.
Protection: Exclusive territory
250,000 total populationp. 34 ↗
What an owner has to hit, and what happens if they miss
What an owner may not do
- Franchisor may allow certain unauthorized services/products to be offered locally or regionally based on factors it determines.p. 39 ↗
- No limitations on medical care/services provided franchisee has appropriate state licenses, hires licensed employees, and does not interfere with doctor-ordered care.p. 39 ↗
- Franchisee must offer the specified services and products in strict accordance with franchisor's standards, and may not sell unauthorized services/products and must discontinue any disapproved.p. 39 ↗
- Franchisor may periodically change required and/or authorized products or services with no limits on that right.p. 39 ↗
- Franchisee must operate in strict conformity with methods, standards and specifications in the Manual and may not deviate without written consent.p. 39 ↗
- Approved Location may only be used for the Franchised Business and not for any other purpose without written consent.p. 39 ↗
Seniors Helping Seniors’ filing discloses 2 proceedings.
That is 0.9 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.
- 2018 · settled · Case No. 18-80705
Both parties alleged breach of various provisions of the Master License Agreements.p. 12 ↗
- 2017 · settled · N17C-06-331-JAP
Franchisee claimed it had not been provided with a Franchise Disclosure Document upon renewal and that we had breached certain contract terms.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
- Royalty you owe regardless: “Commencing on the fourth month the Monthly Minimum Royalty Fee is detailed in the table below:”
- Sales you must reach: “If you fail to meet the Monthly Minimum Gross Sales requirement during any period outlined above, then you must pay us the Monthly Minimum Royalty Fee and we may establish or operate, or license others to establish or operate, SENIORS HELPING SENIORS Businesses or competing businesses within your Territory.”
The proceedings, as the filing describes them
- “the parties filed a joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice and the action is over”
- “the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed all claims”
What this filing does not disclose
- Nothing material to this question is missing from this filing.
Every term on this page is read from Seniors Helping Seniors’ 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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