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 realise the need for non-medical home care and elder companionship services to help seniors live independently at home.
In June 1995 the company began franchising. By 1998, Home Instead Senior Care had grown to 99 offices and was recognised 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. 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 800 franchises in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.
In October 2005 Trevor and Sam Brocklebank opened the first Home Instead office in the UK. Having proven that Home Instead is as much in demand in the UK as in the United States, more franchise offices started opening around the country in 2006. Home Instead were voted Best International Franchise Expansion Programme in 2008 and won the NHS NW Dignity In Care Award in the same year.
In 2007 Paul Hogan was recognized recognised as the International Franchise Association's Entrepreneur of the Year. This most prestigious honour 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, 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 organisations throughout the world.
The Home Instead Senior Care network's mission is a passion to be the world's trusted source of companionship and home care for seniors.
