About Us

Help With My Parents is a non-profit corporation that is committed to improving access for caregivers to information and local resources that impact the care of our older adults.

HISTORY

The effort was started in 2006 by Tony Morrison, founder of Help With My Parents after a visit from his good friend and colleague John Bowling. John and Tony have both worked for many years in the senior care industry - at first together as psychologists and later separately. John went on the work as an administrator and corporate officer for Silverado Senior Living and Tony operated outpatient psychiatric programs for seniors.  John is now at Southern Oregon University where he continues to advance the cause of senior services and Tony, in addition to his work at Help With My Parents, is running an outpatient mental health clinic in Salt Lake City.

When John and Tony got together they would spend a lot of time talking about ideas and solutions to problems that they observed.  During that visit in 2006, one of the things they discussed was the difficulty the children of aging parents had finding comprehensive and coordinated information to help them with their parent’s needs. It was shortly after this that Tony started working on HelpWithMyParents.org. His goal was, and remains, to provide a single website that can provide comprehensive informative content and information about service providers across the whole country.   The idea is that a person who lives anywhere in the country can know all of the options that are available to them, and their aging parent(s), who may live on the other side of the country.  

This is an enormous task, and it was two years before the site was published to the web. The thing that finally allowed Tony and his team to feel comfortable publishing the site was the decision to make all of the content pages into wikis (pages that can be edited by users), and to allow service providers to submit their own information to the site. In the time since the site was launched steady progress has been made, but there is much that still needs to be done.

A decision was made early in the project that a website like HelpWithMyParents.org is only useful if it can provide free comprehensive and unencumbered access to users. Therefore the site does not require people to log in to use the site and there is no charge for providers to be listed on the site. The management team feels strongly that having free unencumbered access is the strength of Help With My Parents.  The commitment to those who use the site is that they will never be charged to use the site and that all legitimate businesses and organizations will be listed on the site at no charge.

About the Advertising

Help With My Parents, through its advertising partner Universal Advertising Solutions, offers advertising opportunities in order to generate the revenue needed to advance this important effort.  The revenue generated from the advertising will allow Helpwithmyparents.org to be self-sustaining and not reliant on the generosity of its donors to sustain the service.  It is anticipated that enough revenue will be generated, from the banner ads that are available on the site, to continue to fund the ongoing development and maintenance of the site.  There is also the assumption that users will contribute to the content and provider information.