Company: Home Helpers Franchising Systems Inc. (Senior Care)

Locations: United States and Canada

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Suspected Spam or Scam (a): No

Job/Business: Business

Salary/Income Range: Data not available.

Website: www.homehelpers.cc

Description of Business:
Established in 1997, Home Helpers is an organization whose aim is to provide non-medical tending and company to its clients. The focus is not only on persons aged over 65 years of age but also new mothers, working parents and persons recuperating from poor health. In most instances, this will be done in the confines of one's own home. However, Home Helpers also work in hospitals, children's homes, hospices and homes for the elderly. Home Helpers Inc. operates one of the best rated franchises in North America. Unlike many franchise opportunities, Home Helpers has a well define step-by-step process that you are taken through before you are signed-up as a franchisee.


Pros:
1. Each franchisee is assigned a territory that covers a defined geographical area. Thus, reduced risk of "internal" competition.
2. Growing market - Persons aged over 65 years is now one of the fastest growing age group in the United States.
3. Training and ongoing support.


Cons:
1. Sensitive industry - The staff you hire in your franchise must have a genuine concern for care-giving.
2. Relatively high start-up costs (Upwards of USD 27,000)
3. Unique behavioral patterns of the elderly - As we all know, elderly persons can be headstrong and will often insist on things being done in a certain way. This can easily wear out persons that had not envisaged this form of resistance.


(a) Scam - illegal / unethical job or business opportunity designed to trick people out of their money.
Spam - marketing of job or business opportunity, which does not pay out or provides very little value to the job/business seekers.





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