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Meet the Greater Dallas Office

More than 90% of seniors want to age in their own home with dignity, but getting the right type of care can seem daunting. At Senior Helpers Greater Dallas we believe that getting the best care for your loved ones should not be complicated. Bent Schoellhorn opened the Senior Helpers Greater Dallas office in 2007 because of his passion for helping others and his interest in the growing need for in-home care services. Bent is committed to delivering the best possible in-home care to seniors in the Greater Dallas community.

We take in-home care seriously and make it a priority to provide the highest level of client service possible. Over the past 13 years we have built an exceptional team of care professionals, each committed to remaining at the forefront of the in-home care industry through our proprietary ongoing training and education programs.

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 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 Greater Dallas was proud to join the system in 2007. 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.

Bent Schoellhorn was drawn to Senior Helpers shortly after his own father suffered a stroke and passed away. At the time, he "happened" to be reading a book called The Purpose Driven Life. Realizing he had a greater purpose in life, he sold his existing business to begin the venture of caring for seniors. Senior Helpers allows our clients to live at home safely and thrive with our care assistance. It has been his privilege to have helped hundreds of families and seniors maintain their independence for over a decade now.

Our team has grown to 9 team members, and 150 caregivers. 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!

Our process

The first step in the process is a complimentary, initial in-home care assessment with a Senior Helpers consultant. This assessment can help you understand the true needs of your loved one, and your options. Together we can discuss their needs, our senior care services and determine what’s best for your entire family.

We will cover:

Your family's specific goals

Your loved one's daily plan design and schedule

Pricing and payment methods

Implementation process

Ongoing communication and follow-up plan

Meet the Greater Dallas Team

Bent Schoellhorn

Owner, Alternate Administrator

Bent is the owner of Senior Helpers Greater Dallas. He is no stranger to owning top performing businesses in the Dallas area and his success with Senior Helpers has not been coincidental. Prior to entering the senior living industry, Bent was a franchise owner of two Sizzler Family Steak House locations as well as a 21-year franchise with Val-Pak in Eastern Dallas and Oklahoma City.

Growing from those experiences in business and searching for a greater purpose, Bent and his wife of 46 years, Vikki, became owners of Senior Helpers of Greater Dallas and began operations in 2007. In their 13 years in business, they consider it a true honor to have helped more than 800 families. Helping seniors is not only their passion, it’s their purpose!

Robin Trenary

Director of Operations, Agency Administrator

Robin adds her 25 years of management experience to our team by overseeing the daily operations of Senior Helpers Greater Dallas. Before moving to Dallas in 2016, much of her career was spent in key management roles in quality assurance in the Underwriting and Agency Administration Departments of American and National Income Life Insurance Companies in Waco, Texas. She is an MCC Alumna with an Associate’s Degree, focused in Business Administration and has earned her ACS and UND designations with Life Office Management Association.

Robin came on board as our Billing and Payroll Manager and promoted to her current position in 2018. She is passionate about living a life of servitude and found her niche helping seniors when she joined our team. She has served as a Loaned Executive for United Way, Partners in Education Coordinator, American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Committee Member and Team Captain for 8 years and our Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s Team Captain for the past three years.

Carolyn Webster

Director of Human Resources, Caregiver Manager

With 16 years in the home care industry, as both a direct caregiver and a staffing coordinator, no one is better suited to manage our increasingly complex human resource dynamic than Carolyn. She is a Detroit native who came to Texas to escape the cold winters. She has an uncanny ability to discipline with love and that has affectionately earned her the office nickname of “Velvet Hammer.”

Carolyn lost her own mother to Alzheimer’s in 2017 and is an incredible advocate for our clients and caregivers alike, having spent much of her time devoted to her care. She will celebrate 6 years with Senior Helpers Greater Dallas this August and in her current role as Director of Human Resources, she helps drive HR policy, as well as direct recruitment, retention and training of a fluid field of exceptional caregivers and the critical staff members who support their work.

Scott Wagley

Scheduling Coordinator

Arguably the toughest job in the company, Scott handles the ins and outs of scheduling with great pride. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with minors in psychology and philosophy. He has owned several businesses in his first “two careers.” Now in his “third career” with us here at Senior Helpers since late 2016, he strives to do a chaotic job in an often-chaotic industry with minimum drama and maximum humor! We get his jokes – sometimes.

Megan Guerrero, CNA

Billing & Payroll Manager

Endearingly dubbed the “Jack of all Trades,” Megan has been in the home care industry for 15+ years. After being out in the field for 7 years as one of our top caregivers, Megan accepted her current position and joined our A-Team here in the office. She moved here from Corpus Christi, Texas and brought her bubbly personality with her! Megan helps with practically anything we need and serves as our office “runner.” If we need her to fill in for a shift until we can get a caregiver in place, she is happy to do it.

Megan’s passion for helping seniors stems from caring for her great-grandmother, whom she lost to mixed Dementia in 2012. With both her hands-on and behind the scenes training, Megan can continue doing what she is passionate about, helping others.

Debbie Rucker

Client Care Manager

Debbie is an accomplished healthcare professional with over 25 years of experience in customer service. She graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Christian University and is a loyal “Horned Frog”.

In 2010, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease; this has strengthened her to empathize with those with disabling conditions and to encourage them to press on with a smile, laughter, and love. With a heart to serve others, she counts flexibility as one of her greatest talents. Debbie is a team player and jumps in to do whatever is needed.

In 1992, Debbie and her mother cared for her grandmother with dementia, then in 1999, her family took in her sister-in-law who died six months later from an autoimmune disease. In 2012, her fifteen-month-old niece needed a home after her dad died, and Debbie eventually was able to adopt her niece in 2017. Last year, she cared for her mother who died from an aggressive form of cancer. She believes that the many patients and families she has encountered have added immeasurable value to her life.

She is a Dallas native and is busy in her after hours loving her husband, ten-year-old daughter, two sons, daughters-in-law, four grandchildren and two big dogs. She is a volunteer greeter with Prestonwood Baptist Church and the 5th grade prayer coordinator, at Prestonwood Christian Academy.

Bailey Ford

HR Coordinator/Recruiter

Bailey graduated from Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in Strategic Communications. Immediately after college, she started her career at an Assisted Living and Memory Care Community as the Lifestyle & Leisure Director. When she moved to Dallas four months ago, she knew that she still wanted to be in the Senior Care Industry. She just had not figured out exactly where her next fit would be, which is why she applied to be a caregiver here at Senior Helpers. We immediately saw extraordinary potential and heart when she interviewed, and it was an easy decision to bring her on as an internal staff member.

Her passion for caring for seniors came from her experience with her grandmother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2017. She helped her grandfather and family care for her for as long as they could to keep her at home. Unfortunately, when safety became an issue, Bailey’s family had to move her into a Memory Care Community in 2018. Her grandmother died recently in 2020 and knowing what she and her family went through is what drives her to be the best in the career she has chosen. If there is anything that she can do to help these families and their loved ones struggling with this, she absolutely wants to do just that.

Mariah Orosco

Administrative Assistant

Mariah brings to the team her welcoming smile and personality. Born and raised in Dallas Texas, Mariah has a big heart for serving her community. Her career started off as an account executive for a large school photography company and continued as a pre-school teacher for five-year-old’s in the Richardson area. Her background in customer service and teaching has helped mold her into the compassionate, hardworking, and patient person she is today.

Mariah’s love for senior care comes from being a caregiver for her grandmother when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016. She decided to switch her career from teaching to senior care after her grandmother died. Her heart for our company reaches far beyond her role in the office. She strives to give the clients and caregivers the best and highest quality of care possible. We are glad to have Mariah on our team!

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