Meet the Central Houston Office

Our History

Senior Helpers was founded in 2002 by Tony Bonacuse with the help of Peter Ross after their firsthand experience in caring for their respective family members. Tony and Peter identified a need that was not being filled properly by the other companies.  They realized that most seniors would prefer to age in their own home rather than move into an unfamiliar institution. Unfortunately, the options available to most seniors were very limited. Most seniors did not have access to well-trained, dependable and affordable in-home care. This was the mission-driven spark that started Senior Helpers.

The first office opened in Baltimore, and quickly developed a reputation for delivering excellent in-home senior care with their well-trained staff of professional caregivers. Based on the success of the Baltimore location, the company began to expand.  Over the past 13 years, the Senior Helpers family has grown to include a network of more than 300 locally owned and operated franchises across the United States.

Senior Helpers of Central Houston was proud to join the system in 2017.  Like every other owner, we too are fully-committed to the original goal of providing dependable and affordable in-home care with well-trained caregivers. Nothing is more important to us than being the best available resource for seniors and families in our community.  

Stuart and Chelsea were drawn to Senior Helpers because of their own experience of caring for senior members of their own families.

We have been lucky to serve hundreds of seniors in our community over the years, and we are committed to continuing to provide uncompromising levels of care to all our families.

We provide a range of services, including companion care, sitter services, light housekeeping, meal planning and preparation, medication reminders, transition assistance, respite care, and assistance with bathing, grooming, toileting and ambulation. Senior Helpers is a leader in the in-home care industry when it comes to Alzheimer’s and dementia care with the program Senior Gems®, developed with nationally renowned dementia expert Teepa Snow. We have also collaborated with staff at Johns Hopkins Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center to design a program that offers strategies and techniques for managing 

All of our caregivers are Senior Helpers employees and undergo rigorous screening, background checks, drug tests and training before they come into your loved one’s home. We treat them like our family, so they can become an extension of yours. Our goal is to enrich the lives of each client, and to exceed all expectations for care. We hope you will consider contacting us to learn more about our services. We believe we can make a positive difference in your life!

Some key commitments we make, include:

We never send a stranger. In our experience, one of the most difficult aspects of being the client of a home care agency was having caregivers show up at our door without being properly introduced or prepared, or in the case of having a substitute, not getting any advance notification of a change – then dealing with substitutes who were poorly prepared to provide appropriate care for your loved one’s needs. With Senior Helpers, this will not happen. A proper introduction will be made. Caregivers are supervised employees, not independent contractors. We are not a referral service or “nurse registry,” where workers are assigned to cases, leaving families to sort through the fine points themselves – whether taxes get paid, whether background checks have been performed, whether they’re bonded and insured. We do all these things in advance, along with testing skills, verifying credentials, speaking with families they’ve worked with before. 

Another way we communicate to prospective clients that we are the best choice for in-home care in the Houston area is by arranging for Listen360, an independent research company, to survey our clients- any client they wish, any time they wish.