Helping Hands Group

Specialties

The creation of Helping Hands derived from the founder who had a very strong desire to help his own mother with day to day fundamental living challenges. It became apparent she needed even more assistance when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer Dementia in 2009.

He began attending seminars on aging and Alzheimer’s in particular, as wanted to be sure she was living a fulfilling safe and happy life. With his own family to take care of and busy siblings, he realized she needed a network of trusted, reliable people to drive her places; go shopping for her; do her laundry and help clean up around her house.

In addition, she has multiple medications that she takes first thing in the morning, during the day, and at night. It was critical to be sure the correct dosages were dispensed in their distinctive containers for specific times of day. And to make it even more complicated like many other senior’s, her medication required someone to be there everyday to exchange her medicine patch and assist in loading and dispensing her inhaler medication.

All of these varied yet vital needs proved to be difficult for the Helping Hands founder and his family to manage every day, he realized there is a large senior community and their children that face these same need every day. Helping Hands is committed to providing critical services for the senior community and temporary or permanently physically challenged individuals.

My Mother is doing great with her own Helping Hands team…

History

Established in 2011.

Local– Helping Hands Group is a local Santa Barbara business. The founder is a 3^rd generation Santa Barbara native. We know our community and make recommendations based on our own experience of knowing the people and companies in Santa Barbara county. In addition, since we are a local company we are not burdened with large overhead costs of being a franchise company based in Santa Barbara, this allows us to pass on our savings to our clients. Thus we provide first class services at affordable prices.

Meet the Business Owner

Rick O.

Business Owner

I promised my senior mother who was diagnosed with Dementia that I would do all I could to allow her to stay in her home. I began to learn all I could about Dementia from the Alzheimer’s Association and being a native of Santa Barbara I sought out contacts and friends that were involved in the care of seniors.

I determined I could create a local care organization that would act like a large family taking care of their mom and dad. In 2011 Helping Hands was launched and for the first 2 years of the company I worked 7 days a week doing care. What I discovered was I absolutely loved it! It didn’t feel like work at all, and the satisfaction that came from helping our senior community was amazing. Today we employ 30 of the best and most caring senior care professionals from Santa Maria to Carpinteria.

It feels great to make a positive impact on the lives of our seniors and have them join the Helping Hands family.