Health Care Franchise Salutes the Selfless

Health care franchise kick-starts celebrationsFrom Send2Press: In honor of the nation's home care professionals and volunteers, Interim HealthCare will join health care franchises throughout the United States in kicking off the November celebration of National Home Care Month.

The month-long celebration pays tribute to the dedicated home care professionals and volunteers who enable elderly, disabled, and chronically ill individuals to live their lives where they want to most-in their own homes.

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Home Health Care Franchises on the Rise

From Time: In 1994, while keeping his grandmother company at his mom's house in Omaha, Neb., Paul Hogan hatched a business.

Barely mobile when her children moved the 89-year-old in, Grandma Hogan, newly pumped up by attention, would live to be a lively 100. What, Paul wondered, did families without available kin do? Providing that answer has propelled Home Instead Senior Care into an international franchising dynamo that reaped $661 million last year and projects a 2009 jump to $738 million on domestic growth of 10% and 26% growth internationally.

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Home Care Franchise Market Burgeons

From The Charlotte Observer: Caregiver Cal Adkins has stayed up nights monitoring a retired female pilot, a Pearl Harbor survivor and former police captain, all in their Charlotte homes.

Home care jobs, which range from helping a patient to bed to providing physical therapy, are among the fastest-growing jobs in the country. Nationally, the number of home care service employees grew by about 200,000, or 26 percent, between 1996 and 2006.

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Senior Care Franchise Poses Difficult Question

There's a growing trend towards eldery parents moving in with their children.

And Home Instead, the senior home care franchise, has launched a campaign, called "Too Close for Comfort?", to help people decide whether such an arrangement is suitable for them.

Read about this campaign on DesMoinesRegister.com