Senior Helpers

Specialties

We are a unique agency comprised of best of breed experts that bring many talents to our service. This allows us to connect seniors and medically fragile adults with the life they had before they needed us.

Senior Helpers enlists the help of a nationally renowned dementia expert, Teepa Snow, and a training program called the Senior Gems. Senior Helpers caregivers receive the specialized Alzheimer’s and dementia training soon after being hired.

Senior Helpers caregivers can visit a client for as little as a few hours a month for «peace of mind» check-​ins, or as much as 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Services are customized to address each individual’s changing needs, including personal hygiene, medication reminders, walking assistance, companionship, shopping, errands, meal planning and preparation, transportation, housekeeping, laundry and many other non-​medical home care needs.

Working with Senior Helpers starts with a quick phone call to ask questions, and a free in-​home assessment to figure out each client’s needs and desires.

History

Established in 2008.

Senior Helpers was founded by Tony Bonacuse with the help of Peter Ross after their firsthand experience in caring for their respective family members. From their experience, Tony and Peter saw a huge gap that was not being filled properly by the other companies providing care for the elderly in the market. In dealing with these other caregivers, they found that either they couldn’t get caregivers to answer their inquiries or that the companies that would respond left something to be desired in their level of professionalism. It was clear to them that someone needed to address these deficiencies — the result being Senior Helpers.

Using Peter as a sounding board, Tony set out to create an organization that would be a trusted leader in senior care, and that would provide the type of professionalism he found to be lacking in other organizations. Tony opened the first Senior Helpers office in Baltimore, MD in 2002 to gauge the potential need for such an organization. As it turns out, ther