How Home Instead Senior Care Began in Anne Arundel County
Our local office was founded in 1998 by David Dickens. Prior to starting the local office, David had owned a manufacturers' rep business. He was ready for a career change, sold the business and embarked on a months long research project to find a new business which offered the promise of growth, but also which would contribute to the community. At the time, Home Instead Senior Care was still in its infancy but he took, as he puts it, a "leap of faith". Now 11 years later, we have grown to be the area's largest provider of non medical in home care.
The History of Home Instead Senior Care
Paul and Lori Hogan founded Home Instead, Inc. and began serving seniors in Omaha, Nebraska as Home Instead Senior Care in 1994. It was Paul Hogan's own family experience caring for his grandmother for 12 years that made him realize the need for non-medical eldercare and companionship services to help seniors live independently at home.
In June 1995, the company began franchising. By 1998, the Home Instead Senior Care network had grown to 99 franchises and was recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing franchise companies in the United States.
In 2000, Home Instead Senior Care began international development with the opening of a Master Franchise in Osaka, Japan. Today, the Home Instead Senior Care franchise network is the world's trusted non-medical source of companionship and home care for seniors, with more than 800 franchises in the United States, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Spain, New Zealand, Taiwan, Switzerland and Germany.
In 2003, theHome Instead Senior Care Foundation was created to further the philanthropic mission of franchisees. The Foundation's focus and objective is to provide financial assistance to non-profit organizations specializing in projects and programming that improve the quality of life for seniors. To learn more, visit The Home Instead Senior Care Foundation website.
In 2007, Paul Hogan was recognized as the International Franchise Association's Entrepreneur of the Year. This most prestigious honor has been bestowed on past recipients including J. Willard Marriott of Marriott Corp., Frederick A. DeLuca, CFE of Subway Restaurants, and Russell Umphenour of RTM Restaurant Group.
Today, the Home Instead Senior Care franchise offices employ nearly 50,000 trained CAREGivers who provide millions of hours of elder care services annually through more than 60 home care activities that include companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping, errands and shopping.
Dependability, quality of care and accountability have earned Home Instead Senior Care a deep level of trust with clients, their family members and friends, and thousands of home health care, assisted living, medical and social elder care organizations throughout the world.
Our Anne Arundel County office is operated by HICare, Inc. by David Dickens, Owner. The office opened in Arnold, Maryland in 1998 and has operated under the same ownership at the same location since then. Since its opening, David's vision has been to establish the office as the leader in home care in the area. This goal has been achieved by the firm's devotion to consistently providing more reliable, dependable care that exceeds expectations. Our "secret" is simple: 1. Experience, our management staff is the most experienced in the area. 2. Selection: We hire fewer than 1 in 20 caregiver applicants and then provide them with the most intensive training (drawing on our national resources) in the business. 3. Management. In a crowded field, our superior staff makes us truly stand out.