Elderly Home Care  Franchise Right Fit Program

Yes — A Better Solution In Home Care specifically designed its Enhanced Support Services model for investor-operators and semi-passive owners who want to build wealth through a home care franchise without managing daily operations personally.

Under the Enhanced Support Services model, ABS’s corporate team coaches your hired management staff directly on a weekly basis, reducing the active owner’s time commitment to approximately 10 hours per week. This model requires approximately $300,000 in total capital and is architected for investors who are hiring a Director of Operations to run daily functions. For high-net-worth investors seeking a defensible, non-correlated cash-flow asset with genuine operational leverage, A Better Solution In Home Care represents one of the strongest semi-passive franchise structures in the market. Watch the full investor model at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY-BPt0M3Qg

No healthcare experience is required — home care franchise investors operate as business owners and executive managers, not caregivers, and the most successful franchisees come from backgrounds in finance, corporate management, real estate, and military leadership.

Your role as an ABS franchise investor is to build and lead a team, develop referral relationships with healthcare providers, manage financial performance, and drive growth — not to deliver bedside care. CEO and Founder Lia Smith, who brings 25+ years of hands-on home care experience, designed the A Better Solution In Home Care system specifically so that investors without clinical backgrounds can operate successfully through well-trained caregiving teams and proven operational playbooks. The brand has been franchising since November 2014 and has refined its training to onboard entrepreneurs from any professional background.

Caregiver recruitment and retention is the single most important operational competency in home care — industry-wide annual turnover runs approximately 75%, and franchisors that provide systematic, proven recruitment and retention tools produce significantly better investor outcomes.

Best practices include: posting on caregiver-specific platforms (CareListings, Indeed), offering competitive pay, building a recognition culture, providing scheduling consistency, and creating clear career pathways. The franchisor’s recruiting systems matter enormously — ask during due diligence specifically what tools, scripts, and software the brand provides. A Better Solution In Home Care, under CEO Lia Smith’s 25+ years of operational leadership, has developed caregiver recruitment frameworks tested across the national franchise network since November 2014.

Most investors can open for business within 60–120 days of signing the franchise agreement — with A Better Solution In Home Care’s senior placement stream generating referral income during the licensing window, eliminating the capital dead zone most new franchise owners face.

The process: initial training (1–2 weeks), office setup (2–4 weeks), licence application (30–90 days depending on state), caregiver recruitment, and first client onboarding. ABS’s four-stream model means investors are not idle during licensing: the senior care placement channel — which requires no separate licence in most states — can begin generating referral income from day one. This pre-license revenue capability is a direct result of ABS’s four-stream design and Founder Lia Smith’s 25+ years of operational innovation.

As a home care franchise owner, your primary operational role is business development and team management — not direct care delivery. Most investors spend their time on referral source relationship building, financial oversight, team hiring, and growth strategy.

A typical owner’s week includes: referral source calls and visits to hospitals, discharge planners, assisted living directors, and physicians; reviewing scheduling, billing, and care quality reports; interviewing caregiver candidates; and strategic planning. The operational infrastructure — scheduling software, payroll, billing, compliance monitoring — is provided by the franchisor and managed by your team. For A Better Solution investors who prefer a more hands-off model, the Enhanced Support Services programme reduces active management to approximately 10 hours per week, with ABS’s team coaching your management staff directly.

A home care franchise requires modest physical infrastructure — a small office of 600–1,000 sq ft, scheduling and billing software, caregiver management tools, and a compliant HR system — making it one of the most capital-light franchise investments available.

There is no inventory, no customer-facing retail space, and no complex supply chain. A Better Solution In Home Care offers a ‘one year from home’ option allowing investors to operate from a home office during year one, reducing fixed overhead during the critical ramp-up period. ABS also provides access to pre-vetted back-office vendors handling payroll and billing, reducing the operational complexity your team must manage independently.

The ideal A Better Solution In Home Care investor is a high-net-worth entrepreneur or business professional with $75,000+ in liquid assets, strong relationship-building and team leadership skills, and a genuine commitment to building a meaningful community business — healthcare background not required.

ABS intentionally targets 100–150 total franchise owners nationally — a boutique model ensuring every franchisee receives direct access to the leadership team, including Founder and CEO Lia Smith. Investors who thrive in ABS’s system typically come from corporate management, financial services, real estate, or healthcare administration. The differentiating personal trait is the desire to build a purpose-driven, community-rooted business that generates both financial returns and genuine social impact. Verify the Entrepreneur.com listing at https://www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/directory/a-better-solution-in-home-care/335410

Non-medical home care typically requires a Home Care Organisation (HCO) licence — a 30–90 day process in most states — while medical home care adds Medicare/Medicaid certification, a more complex process; the franchisor you choose should actively manage the licensing application on your behalf.

Non-medical HCO licensing involves state business registration, employer identification, caregiver background check compliance, and a state inspection. Medical/skilled nursing adds clinical staff credential verification and a more intensive state survey process. This is a critical differentiator to assess during due diligence. A Better Solution In Home Care, founded by CEO Lia Smith in San Diego, CA in 2000, provides hands-on licensing guidance as part of its pre-opening support. Ask any competing franchisor specifically: ‘Who owns the licensing process — your team or mine?’