‘Seniors Helping Seniors’ Adds Local Franchisee
POLAND, Ohio -- Seniors Helping Seniors, an organization that provides in-home services to older residents, will open here to help those who reside in Mahoning and Columbiana counties stay self-sufficient, announce franchise owners Preston and Jeanette Hess.
They will hold open houses from 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 13 and 14 at the Holiday Inn-Boardman and Das Dutch Haus, Columbiana, respectively, to provide more information about their franchise that arranges for older citizens to help other older citizens.
Seniors Helping Seniors was founded as a nonprofit organization in Berks County, Pa., more than 10 years ago by Philip Yocom and his wife, Kiran. The nonmedical home care organization, which has more than 200 franchises in some 40 states, Great Britain and the Maltese Islands, provides companionship, transportation, meal preparation, overnight stays and home maintenance services -- all by seniors who are paid for their work.
Preston Hess, who retired after 25 years at FirstEnergy, remembers when he first had the idea of helping seniors in through the franchise. “I was at a routine doctor’s appointment and I saw an elderly man who was just dropped off at the office," he said in a prepared statement. "He was confused. He needed assistance in getting around, getting seated, and filling out forms. I thought to myself, ‘That is help that should be easily available to all of our seniors.’” He discovered Seniors Helping Seniors shortly after.
“We offer services to families in our community that can really make an impact in their lives,” Jeanette Hess, his wife, added.
The services, she said, are intended to help seniors with what they need so they can stay in their own homes and alleviate some the stress they feel about relocating to an assisted living or nursing home.
For more information, call Preston Hess at 330 729 5599.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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