--- title: "Seniors Helping Seniors Franchise Run by Mother-Daughter Team" url: https://burnaze.com/article/3c06609e-2e09-4fa4-84fa-824be3a8d2ba source: "1851 Franchise" original_url: https://1851franchise.com/two-generations-of-women-join-forces-and-find-success-in-business-ownership-with-seniors-helping-seniors-2725256 category: "Home care" industry: "Senior Care" segment: "Home care" published: 2024-03-03T13:08:01.000Z modified: 2026-11-01T01:07:41.753Z image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/2c1ce6faa7b531cd5e3704dc7e59ad4c2571.jpg --- # Seniors Helping Seniors Franchise Run by Mother-Daughter Team **TL;DR:** A mother-daughter team runs a Seniors Helping Seniors franchise, attributing their success to support from local women-owned business organizations. The team has grown their business over 12 years, with the mother retiring in 2018 but still providing support. *originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2024-03-03. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/two-generations-of-women-join-forces-and-find-success-in-business-ownership-with-seniors-helping-seniors-2725256).* ## Story I was perfectly okay with everyone knowing she was my mom because I was so proud of who she was and her part in the business. The two women have grown their business over the years and I show no signs of stopping. I attribute a great deal of my success to the support I received from local organizations that focus on women-owned businesses and advise other women to empower each other through these communities. - I would encourage women to go out and plug into other organizations for support. Our local women’s business groups and organizations here have been amazing and we are constantly fixing each other's crowns. Before I started this business, I worked in insurance for about the first 10 years of my career. Then I was a teacher in the Brevard County schools, and I taught kids with varying disabilities. After a while, I had taken a year off. My last position was with the really little ones and so I wanted to take a breather to get my patience level back to where it needed to be. During that time, I ended up being the one in the family that took everybody to their doctor's appointments, which made me see the need for this, but I was also enjoying it and having a lot of fun. One day, an ad for Seniors Helping Seniors came across my desk; I looked at it and thought: “That's perfect. That’s what we should have done for Great Grandma when she needed help.” I immediately fell in love with the idea and took it to my mom who had been in business for 30 years to ask her to help me do some research. She did her own little independent study and ended up falling in love with the concept as well. Next thing I knew, she was asking me “When are we going to do this?” I loved the “we” part, so we started it together and have had the business for 12 years now. My initial perception was negative. I used to think franchises were super expensive and hard to work with, but in reality, we've found that it's been great. I couldn't have done this on my own. I couldn't have built our franchise as quickly or as successfully without that support from the home office. When we were taking care of some of the people in my family, they were very feisty and didn't want to listen to anybody, but they would listen to their bingo friends. Seniors Helping Seniors really made a whole lot of sense to us for that reason because of the closeness in age and focus on building relationships between the caregivers and clients. We have added the electronic caregiver to supplement what we do to help keep people safe while we're not around in the home. We love looking at ways to continue growing what we already have. I am proud of the community I belong to. Here in Brevard County, we have a lot of support for women-owned businesses. I am part of weVENTURE which is through the Florida Institute of Technology. They have a Women's Business Center and we've had a lot of support through them from the very beginning, which makes me feel very lucky. It worked wonderfully for us. We tried to set rules and boundaries, which only worked sometimes, but overall, we made an incredible team. We know each other so well so we could fill in for each other’s weaknesses. I'm eternally grateful for her; she said she would give me three years in the business and she actually gave me six. She retired in 2018, but she still comes out and helps and remains a sounding board for me. ## Entities - 1851 Franchise (publication) - Senior Care (sector) - senior care (topic) - franchise success (topic) - Seniors Helping Seniors (company) - women-owned business (topic) - Brevard County (location) --- Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/two-generations-of-women-join-forces-and-find-success-in-business-ownership-with-seniors-helping-seniors-2725256). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/3c06609e-2e09-4fa4-84fa-824be3a8d2ba).