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title: "Home Health Care News: The Threat Climate Change Poses to Home-Based Care"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/a1b1c098-04b7-4591-a642-85d1ce5490f9
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/trubluehomeserviceally/home-health-care-news-the-threat-climate-change-poses-to-home-based-care-2716723
category: "Home Services"
industry: "Home Services"
published: 2021-09-22T14:09:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:13:30.801Z
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# Home Health Care News: The Threat Climate Change Poses to Home-Based Care

**TL;DR:** TruBlue Total House Care, a home maintenance and handyman franchise, is considering the impact of climate change on its business, with a rise in extreme weather events leading to increased demand for its services. The company's president, Sean Fitzgerald, believes there are opportunities to innovate and expand services related to climate change.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-09-22. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/trubluehomeserviceally/home-health-care-news-the-threat-climate-change-poses-to-home-based-care-2716723).*

## Story

In an interview with Home Health Care News, Sean Fitzgerald, president of TruBlue Total House Care, a 60-plus unit home maintenance and handyman franchise with a particular focus on senior services, talked about the impact that climate change has had on the home services industry. According to Fitzgerald, climate change is a factor that TruBlue, along with many other home care brands, is starting to consider more and more.

With a rise in extreme weather events, Fitzgerald said that TruBlue has seen a rise in business in affected areas. “Not having your home well maintained — with clean gutters, downspouts cleared out and sump pumps functioning properly — can have adverse effects,” he told Home Health Care News. “A lot of times seniors can’t do these things themselves, and their homes withstand something like a hurricane.”

Fitzgerald believes that TruBlue has only “scratched the surface” on the type of services it can offer related to climate change and will look to continue to innovate new ways to help seniors safely age at home.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Home Services (sector)
- Sean Fitzgerald (person)
- TruBlue Total House Care (company)
- home maintenance (topic)
- Home Health Care News (publication)
- senior services (topic)
- climate change (topic)
- extreme weather events (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/trubluehomeserviceally/home-health-care-news-the-threat-climate-change-poses-to-home-based-care-2716723). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/a1b1c098-04b7-4591-a642-85d1ce5490f9).