What does Seniors Helping Seniors provide, and what does it charge for?
Seniors Helping Seniors gives new owners 32 hours of classroom training. That is below typical among home care systems.
Across 15 home care systems
Which systems train new owners longer than Seniors Helping Seniors? →
Classroom hours a new owner gets, across the systems that state them
Owner and principal-operator programmes only — audiences are never added together.
›View data & method
| System | Classroom hours |
|---|---|
| A Place At Home | Not stated in a form we could read |
| Amada Senior Care | Not stated in a form we could read |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | 13 |
| BrightStar Care | 49 |
| CareBuilders at Home | 41 |
| ComForCare | Not stated in a form we could read |
| Comfort Keepers | Not stated in a form we could read |
| Executive Home Care | 30 |
| FirstLight Home Care | Not stated in a form we could read |
| Griswold | 72 |
| Hallmark Homecare | Not stated in a form we could read |
| Home Instead | 25 |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | 54 |
| Homewatch CareGivers | Not stated in a form we could read |
| HomeWell Care Services | 40 |
| Nurse Next Door | 33 |
| One You Love Homecare | 56 |
| Right at Home | 85 |
| Senior Helpers | 43 |
| Home Matters Caregiving | 62 |
| Seniors Helping Seniors | 32 |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | 60 |
| Visiting Angels | Not stated in a form we could read |
Read from each filing’s own training table — its totals row, or the sum of its rows where every row states a number. A blank cell is never counted as a zero, and self-paced online study is not counted as on-the-job training, because the tables print them as different columns.
Where it happens, and who has to be there
How long: approximately seven days
Where: Wyomissing Hills, PA (Virtually)
All of it is delivered remotely.
Who must attend: the Designated Manager (which is you, unless you designate another individual)p. 33 ↗
What Seniors Helping Seniors says it will do for an owner
Every item below is described in this filing. A system that does not mention something has not necessarily withheld it — Item 11 is written by the franchisor, and silence is silence.
- Grand-opening / launch marketing
- Pre-opening guidance
- Site / office location assistance
- Business coaching / field support visits
- Initial training program
- Ongoing / additional training
- Operations manual access
- Financing assistance or referrals
- Intranet / franchisee communication network
- Quality assurance / client satisfaction program
Seniors Helping Seniors requires an owner to run 4 systems of its choosing.
The technology fee is $30/mo, below typical in this field. Website Fee: currently $30 per month (will not increase by more than $15 each year); Operations CRM Software: currently $9/Client per Month with $120 minimum; Care Academy: currently $168/month; WelcomeHome: currently $200/month; Augusta: currently $329/month — covers: Website; Operations CRM Software; Care Academy; WelcomeHome; AugustaSource ↗
- assistive technologiesNamed in the filing
- customized client management and scheduling programRequired
- point-of-sale hardware or softwareNamed in the filing
- TeleCareNamed in the filing
- QuickBooksRequired
- computer hardware compatible with our systemRequired
- Microsoft 365Named in the filing
- third-party vendor softwareNamed in the filing
- on-line intranet forums and teleconferencesNamed in the filing
- CareAcademyRequired
Seniors Helping Seniors requires its owners to attend the annual conference.
How to read what a system provides
- This is what each filing says it does, not a scorecard. We list the support a system describes. A system that does not mention something has not necessarily withheld it — Item 11 is written by the franchisor, and silence is silence.
- Hours belong to an audience. A filing states training hours separately for an owner, a manager and clinical staff, and those figures are never added together. Only the owner's hours compare across systems.
- Required is not the same as named. A system an owner must buy and use is a different commitment from one the filing merely mentions, and we keep the filing's own word for it.
›The numbers behind this page
What the filing says, in its own words
- Grand-opening / launch marketing: “We will provide you with guidance for conducting Grand Opening Advertising, and we will review and approve the materials you use in your Grand Opening Advertising. (Sections X.A. and X.D.)”p. 32 ↗
- Pre-opening guidance: “provide you with guidelines and specifications for the operation and management of the Franchised Business, which guidelines and specifications must be adopted by you, including sales and marketing your Franchised Business, computer software training, advertising and promotional techniques, and staffing. We will provide you with the names and specifications for equipment, signs, fixtures, opening inventory and supplies. We do not deliver or install these items. (Section III.A.1.)”p. 29 ↗
- Site / office location assistance: “If you have a potential site for the Franchised Business, you may propose the location for our consideration. We may consent to the site after we have evaluated it. If appropriate, we may allow you to operate the Franchised Business from a home office.”p. 32 ↗
- Business coaching / field support visits: “provide as much basic advisory assistance as we believe will be helpful to you in the ongoing operation, advertising and promotion of the Franchised Business, which assistance may (but is not required to) include, an annual on-site visit or telephonic conference, limited telephone support, on-line intranet forums and teleconferences (Section III.B.1.)”p. 30 ↗
- Initial training program: “provide an initial training program in the establishment and operation of the Franchised Business which must be successfully completed to our satisfaction (Section III.A.2.)”p. 29 ↗
- Ongoing / additional training: “From time to time we may require that previously trained and experienced franchisees, their managers, and/or employees attend refresher-training programs to be conducted at our headquarters. Attendance at these programs will be at your sole expense; however, we will provide you with instruction and training materials in connection with this additional training.”p. 34 ↗
- Operations manual access: “loan you a single copy of our Operations Manuals (collectively, the "Manual") as amended from time to time, which will include standards and specifications for procedures, management, and operation of the Franchised Business (Section III.A.3.). Said Manual consists of 322 pages.”p. 29 ↗
- Financing assistance or referrals: “use our best efforts to obtain on your behalf favorable rates for insurance coverage, vehicle financing, computers, or other equipment items for the Franchised Business (subject to any eligibility requirements established by the vendors for such products and services) (Section III.A.6.)”p. 29 ↗
What this filing does not disclose
- Nothing material to this question is missing from this filing.
Everything on this page is what Seniors Helping Seniors’ 2026 filing says it provides, in the filing’s own terms. Nothing here is a comparison except the training hours: the rest is a description a franchisor wrote about itself, and the absence of an item means the filing did not mention it. Source ↗
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