Seniors Helping Seniors: Reviews and Costs in 2025
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February 13, 2025
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Like other home care agencies, Seniors Helping Seniors provides both personal care assistance and specialized dementia care to older adults in their homes. What separates this company, however, is that caregiving staff are all seniors rather than people of all ages.
If you’re looking for a qualified caregiver with a wealth of experience and compassion, Seniors Helping Seniors might be a great in-home care option.
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Seniors Helping Seniors Pros and Cons
Pros
- Safety and fall prevention: In addition to in-home care services, Seniors Helping Seniors offers safety and fall-prevention assistance. It includes looking out for potential fall hazards, helping you avoid injuries, and providing overall support and recommendations for correcting fall hazards.
- Respite care: Seniors Helping Seniors provides respite care for family caregivers to help them avoid caregiver burnout and recharge during their time off. The company’s caregivers can provide intermittent or ongoing respite care.
- 24-hour care: Seniors Helping Seniors can provide round-the-clock care if needed. Its in-home care services are available 24/7 for personal, specialized, or overnight care.
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s care: Caregivers can assist with specialized care for individuals with memory loss, dementia, or Alzheimer’s. They can provide social stimulation, compassion, and report any worsening conditions to family members or doctors if necessary.
Cons
- Limited services: Services from Seniors Helping Seniors are limited compared to other care agencies. Caregivers cannot provide medical care such as hospice support, palliative care, or rehabilitative care.
Seniors Helping Seniors Review
Background
Founded in 1998 in Pennsylvania, Seniors Helping Seniors aims to provide compassionate home care to aging adults in their homes, allowing them to age gracefully and independently. The company operates in 37 states in the U.S. and also has offices in the United Kingdom and Malta.
Services
Powered by a caregiving staff of older adults, Seniors Helping Seniors offer the following types of in-home care:
- Companionship/socialization
- Light handyman services, including common household repairs such as fixing a wobbly table
- Light housekeeping
- Long-distance check-ins to family members
- Meal prep
- Medication reminders
- Memory care for patients with dementia or Alzheimer’s
- Personal care including help with dressing, eating, bathing, walking, hygiene, oral care, etc.
- Pet care such as litter box maintenance or walking a dog
- Respite care
- Running errands
- Safety and fall prevention
- Specialized care for people recovering from a hospital stay
- Transportation
- Yard work, including planting flowers, weeding, lawn mowing, and more
Customer Experience
Each Seniors Helping Seniors location is independently owned and operated, so your experience may differ from ours. Here’s what we learned from our time with the company:
- Seniors Helping Seniors can cost between $25 and $38 an hour.
- Some locations have weekly or per-shift minimums, and some do not.
- While some locations undercut local market prices, some are slightly more expensive than the median cost.
We found the reps from Seniors Helping Seniors to be patient and friendly, helping us navigate the often complicated territory of home care and taking the time to suggest appropriate options for our situation.
Third-Party Reviews
As a franchise, each Seniors Helping Seniors location will vary in terms of customer experience. We looked at Yelp ratings for three locations across the U.S. to gauge clients’ experiences:
“Seniors Helping Seniors matched my Mom with a wonderful person who enriched her time during the day. Our helper was knowledgeable of the area, PATIENT, understanding and unflappable. We requested companion care and seniors helping seniors provided the exact type care we were looking for. The office responded to our inquiries in a timely manner and were exceptionally polite.”- New York, New York
“I have had the pleasure of working with the Seniors Helping Seniors team. I must say that they are truly wonderful folks. My mother whom they were supporting loved the folks that they sent. In her words they were kind and were great and caring helpers. She was comfortable with each and everyone of the support team. The Seniors Helping Seniors office staff was always available and was even able to send additional support staff when needed. They were a great support system when needed. I highly recommend them.”- Pennsylvania
“My 93-year-old mother needed some light assistance one or two days per week (not medical). We contacted a few various agencies and decided to give Seniors Helping Seniors a try. I don't live in NJ, but my brother and his wife do. They met with Dolores, the owner, at my mother's home and assessed her needs.
Within a week, my mother was paired with a woman named Joan. My mother liked her a lot; they have gotten along very well. First Joan came only once per week for a few hours to help my mother with errands or take her to appointments. Eventually she came twice a week.
My mother is moving out of state to NY (to be closer to my brother, who is also moving). Joan has been helping my mother to go through her closets and drawers to consolidate her stuff before the move.
Overall, it has been a very positive experience for our family. I'm in California so it's not like I can drop everything and come to NJ to help my mother on a constant basis. My brother and his wife are busy with their own stuff. It was wonderful to know that my mother could rely on Joan to help out.
I would definitely recommend Seniors Helping Seniors. Thank you, Dolores and Joan!!!!”- San Carlos, California
Check your nearest locations’ listings on review sites, as experiences vary.
Cost and Pricing
Each Seniors Helping Seniors location is independently owned and operated, you’ll have to contact your nearest location for pricing information. Our clients in Boca Raton, Florida, for example, paid only $25 per hour, which is way under the $30-an-hour median cost of home health aides in the state, based on data from Genworth. This location has a two-hour minimum, while the industry standard is four-hour minimums.
In Warminster, Pennsylvania, our clients pay $34 an hour and need to book a minimum of nine hours per week. The nice thing about this location is that they don’t have a per-shift minimum number of hours. And the rate is the same no matter what day of the week it is, although it’s a bit higher than the state’s $31 per hour median.
Finally, in Arizona, the rate is $38 per hour, with no minimums. That’s slightly higher than the state’s median of $36 an hour.
Areas Served
Seniors Helping Seniors has locations in the following states:
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
To find a location near you, enter your ZIP code, city, or state on the Seniors Helping Seniors website. Or if you prefer, call 610-898-0090.
Bottom Line
Given the variability of franchise businesses, Seniors Helping Seniors may be cheaper or more expensive than your state’s average cost of care. But we love the idea of people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s helping other seniors, so it’s worth calling your nearest location to find out what they have to offer. To learn more about our favorite home care agencies and strategies, check out our guides:
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Frequently Asked Questions
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How much does Seniors Helping Seniors cost?
Seniors Helping Seniors’ hourly rate is around $25 to $38 an hour, but the cost varies by location.
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Does Seniors Helping Seniors require a minimum time commitment?
Some Seniors Helping Seniors locations require minimum time commitments but some don’t, as each location is independently owned and operated. A location in Boca Raton, Florida, for example, has a two-hour minimum, while another location in Tucson, Arizona, has no minimum at all.
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How can I find Seniors Helping Seniors?
To find Seniors Helping Seniors:
- Call 610-898-0090.
- Or, enter your location on the company’s website: https://locations.seniorshelpingseniors.com/
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Does Seniors Helping Seniors offer skilled nursing services?
No, as of February 2025, Seniors Helping Seniors does not offer skilled nursing services.
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Does Seniors Helping Seniors accept Medicare and Medicaid?
Whether Seniors Helping Seniors accepts Medicare and Medicaid depends on the location, as each is an independently owned and operated franchise. The location in Bethesda, Maryland, for example, does not accept either Medicare or Medicaid. Instead, most clients pay privately or with long-term care insurance.