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How much classroom training does a new owner get?

Classroom training runs from 13 to 85 hours; the typical programme is 43 hours.

15 of 23 systems disclose this.

Where each of the 15 systems that disclose it sits

Each dot is a system. The rule is the middle value.

Across the 15 systems that disclose it
Assisting Hands Home Care: 13Home Instead: 25Executive Home Care: 30Seniors Helping Seniors: 32Nurse Next Door: 33HomeWell Care Services: 40CareBuilders at Home: 41Senior Helpers: 43BrightStar Care: 49HomeCare Advocacy Network: 54One You Love Homecare: 56SYNERGY HomeCare: 60Home Matters Caregiving: 62Griswold: 72Right at Home: 85
Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs

Right at Home gives new owners 85 hours of classroom training — more than any other system here

Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.

Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs
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15 of 23 systems disclose this. Figures are read from each system’s own 2026 franchise disclosure document. How this data is built

Instructor-led hours in the initial training programme for a new owner, as printed in the filing's training table.

›How to read it

Classroom training hours — Instructor-led hours in the initial training programme for a new owner, as printed in the filing's training table.

Higher means more taught hours before opening. Lower means a shorter programme, or more learning on the job.

Hours are not quality, and self-paced online time is counted separately.

Every system on this measure

Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.

Classroom training hours for every home care franchise system, from 2026 franchise disclosure documents
SystemClassroom training hours
A Place At HomeNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD50Emerging
Amada Senior CareNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD261Scaling
Assisting Hands Home Care13232Scaling
BrightStar Care49396Scaling
CareBuilders at Home4128Early
ComForCareNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD271Scaling
Comfort KeepersNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD619Scaling
Executive Home Care3079Emerging
FirstLight Home CareNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD238Scaling
Griswold72198Scaling
Hallmark HomecareNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD59Emerging
Home Instead25626Mature
Home Matters Caregiving6231Emerging
HomeCare Advocacy Network547Early
Homewatch CareGiversNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD260Scaling
HomeWell Care Services40201Scaling
Nurse Next Door3371Emerging
One You Love Homecare5624Early
Right at Home85566Scaling
Senior Helpers43394Scaling
Seniors Helping Seniors32224Scaling
SYNERGY HomeCare60626Scaling
Visiting AngelsNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD541Mature

HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems’ 2026 disclosure documents. Listed alphabetically until you sort it.

8 of 23 filings do not disclose this

Not disclosed by A Place At Home, Amada Senior Care, ComForCare, Comfort Keepers, FirstLight Home Care, Hallmark Homecare, Homewatch CareGivers, Visiting Angels. 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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