Michael Tenney knows from experience the hardship of caring for an aging parent at a distance. When his father-in-law fell sick last year, Tenney started driving to Portland every two weeks to help his mother-in-law with the split-level home she has lived in for decades.
“My mother-in-law has lost someone very dear to her, she’s going through a lot of pain,” he said. “And there are people like that out there, and there are adult children of those people who are also in the same boat, where they don’t know what to do, they don’t know who to call; they want to help, they don’t know how.”
With this in mind, and decades of experience caring for his own home, Tenney recently started GoodHelp Services, a handyman-esque service built around recurring appointments to help senior citizens maintain their homes…