How long is an owner signed up for?
Terms run from 5 to 10 years; the typical agreement is 10.
22 of 23 systems disclose this.
Where each of the 22 systems that disclose it sits
Each dot is a system. The rule is the middle value.
A Place At Home runs its agreement for 10 years, matched by 18 other systems
Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.
5 systems between the highest and lowest are not drawn here. The full field is in the data table below.
›View data & method
22 of 23 systems disclose this. Figures are read from each system’s own 2026 franchise disclosure document. How this data is built
How many years the franchise agreement runs before it has to be renewed.
›How to read it
Agreement term — How many years the franchise agreement runs before it has to be renewed.
Longer means more years locked in on today's terms. Shorter means an earlier decision point, and an earlier renewal.
The term is not a commitment the owner can walk away from freely.
Every system on this measure
Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.
| System | Agreement term | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A Place At Home | 10 | 50 | Emerging |
| Amada Senior Care | 10 | 261 | Scaling |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | 10 | 232 | Scaling |
| BrightStar Care | 10 | 396 | Scaling |
| CareBuilders at Home | 10 | 28 | Early |
| ComForCare | 10 | 271 | Scaling |
| Comfort Keepers | 10 | 619 | Scaling |
| Executive Home Care | 10 | 79 | Emerging |
| FirstLight Home Care | 10 | 238 | Scaling |
| Griswold | 10 | 198 | Scaling |
| Hallmark Homecare | 10 | 59 | Emerging |
| Home Instead | 5 | 626 | Mature |
| Home Matters Caregiving | 10 | 31 | Emerging |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | Not disclosed in the 2026 FDD | 7 | Early |
| Homewatch CareGivers | 10 | 260 | Scaling |
| HomeWell Care Services | 10 | 201 | Scaling |
| Nurse Next Door | 5 | 71 | Emerging |
| One You Love Homecare | 10 | 24 | Early |
| Right at Home | 10 | 566 | Scaling |
| Senior Helpers | 10 | 394 | Scaling |
| Seniors Helping Seniors | 10 | 224 | Scaling |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | 5 | 626 | Scaling |
| Visiting Angels | 10 | 541 | Mature |
HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems’ 2026 disclosure documents. Listed alphabetically until you sort it.
1 of 23 filings does not disclose this
Not disclosed by HomeCare Advocacy Network. A blank in the table means the filing is silent. It is never a zero.
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How to read this data
- These are each system's own disclosures, not our opinion of them. Every number on this page comes out of a filing the system published itself. Where we calculate something — an effective royalty, a fee load, a growth rate — we show the inputs and the formula alongside it.
- A blank means the filing did not say, never zero. Systems disclose different things, so most measures are filed by some of the field and not all of it. Where a figure rests on part of the field, we say how much of it.
- Nothing here is a ranking. Most of these measures have no better direction: a lower royalty is not automatically a better system, and a bigger territory is not automatically a better deal. We show where a system sits and leave the judgement to you.
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