Senior Care
Right at Home Franchise
A non-medical in-home care franchise providing personal care, companionship, and specialized care coordination for seniors and adults with disabilities. Originally formed as a Nebraska corporation in 1999 (franchising since May 2000) and headquartered in Omaha, the same city as fellow in-home-care franchisor Home Instead, also in this dataset. Franchised unit count grew every year in the FDD's three-year window, its strongest growth (+31) coming in 2024.
Every franchisor has to file a document called an FDD before they can legally sell you a franchise. Buried in it are the two things a sales rep won't volunteer: what you'll actually spend to open, and whether existing locations are opening or closing. That's what's below, pulled straight from Right at Home's own filing.
What it costs to open
From the filing's investment breakdown -- not a "starting at" number a sales rep quoted you.
Franchise fee
$49,500
Total to open
$94,330–$176,239
Ongoing royalty
5% of gross sales
What you'd actually spend, over time
The upfront cost is only part of it. Plug in what you expect a location to bring in, and see the real total once royalties over a few years are added on top.
Defaulted to a rough senior care industry average, not a figure from Right at Home's own FDD -- change it to your own estimate.
Total cost of ownership over 5 years
$269,330 – $351,239
Startup investment
$94,330–$176,239
Royalty per year (5%)
$35,000
Total royalty, 5yr
$175,000
When would you break even?
Revenue alone doesn't tell you this -- it depends on what's left after rent, labor, and everything else. Right at Home's FDD doesn't disclose a reliable profit figure (most franchisors don't), so this starts from a typical senior care profit margin (~12%) and applies it to the revenue you entered above -- adjust the percentage to your own realistic estimate.
Defaulted to a general senior care industry benchmark, not a figure from Right at Home's own filing -- this is a starting point to adjust, not a promise about what franchisees actually make.
At that profit, you'd break even in about
1.1–2.1 years
Weigh that payback period against what you already know: Right at Home is opening more locations. A long payback period on a shrinking brand is a very different bet than the same payback period on a growing one.
Is Right at Home actually growing?
Franchisors have to report, every year, how many locations opened, closed, or changed hands. Most franchise sites never show you this. Here it is:
Locations opened vs. closed, by year
GrowingFrom Item 20 of Right at Home's FDD, the section franchisors use to disclose real openings and closings.
| Year | Franchised units, start | Franchised units, end | Net change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 496 | 508 | +12 |
| 2024 | 508 | 539 | +31 |
| 2025 | 539 | 566 | +27 |
Most recent year (2025): gained 27 franchised units, ending the year at 566 total.
How Right at Home compares to other Senior Care franchises
Across the 7 senior care franchises we've hand-verified so far, the typical range to open runs $112,135–$249,899, with royalties averaging around 4.8% of gross sales (based on the 7 of them that charge a flat %-of-revenue royalty).
Right at Home Franchise FAQ
How much does it cost to franchise a Right at Home?
Based on Right at Home's own FDD, total initial investment to open one location runs $94,330–$176,239, including the $49,500 franchise fee. Right at Home only files a Net Worth/Experience Exemption notice with California DFPI under its current entity (Right at Home, LLC, DFPI Regulated Entity ID 395118, all filings are exemption notices, no full registration/marked-FDD on file), so this entry is sourced from Minnesota's CARDS registry instead, matching this dataset's established practice for exemption-only franchisors: Clean FDD, Issuance Date March 31, 2026 (MN File No. 4053, document 35989-202604-08, filed 4/15/2026). Item 5: $49,500 standard initial franchise fee (as low as $37,125 under a VetFran discount). Item 6: royalty is a flat 5% of Net Billings. Item 7 TOTAL for a standard Franchised Business: $94,330-$176,239 (a separate Conversion Franchise table runs $81,955-$177,739). Item 20 Table No. 1, fiscal years 2023-2025 -- fetched directly from cards.commerce.state.mn.us and read from the PDF; company-owned outlets shrank from 28 to 6 over the same window as the franchisor sold them off to franchisees.
What is the Right at Home franchise fee and royalty rate?
The initial franchise fee is $49,500, and the ongoing royalty is 5% of gross sales, per the filing on record.
Is the Right at Home franchise growing or shrinking?
Growing. Across 2023–2025, Right at Home added a net 70 franchised locations, per its own annual FDD filings.
Keep going
- Right at Home and Home Instead are both senior care franchises; Home Instead's total investment starts about $1,690 lower than Right at Home's. Home Instead Franchise
- Right at Home and BrightStar Care are both senior care franchises; Right at Home's total investment starts about $7,134 lower than BrightStar Care's. BrightStar Care Franchise
Where this came from: Right at Home only files a Net Worth/Experience Exemption notice with California DFPI under its current entity (Right at Home, LLC, DFPI Regulated Entity ID 395118, all filings are exemption notices, no full registration/marked-FDD on file), so this entry is sourced from Minnesota's CARDS registry instead, matching this dataset's established practice for exemption-only franchisors: Clean FDD, Issuance Date March 31, 2026 (MN File No. 4053, document 35989-202604-08, filed 4/15/2026). Item 5: $49,500 standard initial franchise fee (as low as $37,125 under a VetFran discount). Item 6: royalty is a flat 5% of Net Billings. Item 7 TOTAL for a standard Franchised Business: $94,330-$176,239 (a separate Conversion Franchise table runs $81,955-$177,739). Item 20 Table No. 1, fiscal years 2023-2025 -- fetched directly from cards.commerce.state.mn.us and read from the PDF; company-owned outlets shrank from 28 to 6 over the same window as the franchisor sold them off to franchisees. You can pull the same filing yourself from the California DFPI's public franchise search. Filed 2026-03-31. None of this is investment advice -- get the franchisor's current FDD and talk to a real attorney or accountant before you sign anything.
If you see a different unit count elsewhere: franchisors only have to refile their FDD annually, so the numbers here can run 6–18 months behind a franchisor's own real-time marketing claims -- which often aren't independently verified, and sometimes count signed-but-not-yet-open locations. A gap isn't necessarily an error on either side; it's two different snapshots in time from two different sources.