Home Instead Senior Care Began from Personal Experience
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 that made him realize the need for non-medical home care and elder companionship services to help seniors live independently at home.
Fulfilling a Growing Need as Our Population Ages
In June 1995, the company began franchising. By 1998, Home Instead Senior Care had grown to 99 offices 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 an international partner relationship in Osaka, Japan with Duskin Corporation.
Offering In-Home Care Worldwide
Today, the Home Instead Senior Care franchise network is the world's trusted source of companionship, Alzheimer's and home care for seniors, with more than 900 franchises in the United States, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Taiwan, Switzerland, Germany, South Korea, Finland, Austria, Puerto Rico and Northern Italy. The network employs nearly 65,000 trained CAREGiversSM who provide millions of hours of elder care services annually.
Philanthropic Endeavors
In 2003, the Hogans established The Home Instead Senior Care Foundation as a means to further enhance the lives of older adults. 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.
We are dedicated to sharing our success by giving back to our community. Locally, we continue to support the community through our active participation and involvement with organizations such as, the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, the Arthritis Foundation Walk, and Partners in Care, while also participating and supporting a variety of Area Office on Aging Programs.
Five (5) years ago, we developed The Home Instead Senior Care Presidential Service Awards. An annual award program designed to acknowledge and reward those businesses and individuals who have done the most to best demonstrate the ideals of excellence, service, and integrity in serving our senior community. Through this awards program, over 40 organizations have been presented with awards including over $6000 in donations to area non- profits.
Our Be A Santa To A Senior Program, was established in 2003. Since then, we have delivered over 10,000 gifts to local area finacially challenged and isolated seniors. We partner with local non-profit and community organizations to identify seniors who might not otherwise receive gifts this holiday season. We then work with local businesses and retail stores to help facilitate the purchase and distribution of gifts by placing trees and ornaments within their various locations.
Outstanding Achievements
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.
The American Society on Aging also recognized Home Instead, Inc. as the Small Business of the Year in 2003 for it's exclusive CAREGiver training program designed by the world-renowned experts of The George G. Glenner Alzheimer's Family Center.
