Senior Living Company Solinity Expands Into Home Care With Hawaiian Legacy Partnership

Senior living development company Solinity has partnered with Hawaiian Legacy to launch a new home care agency — the first step in a broader strategy to expand home-based services.

Solinity ultimately plans to ensure that every one of its community living facilities is integrated with a home care offering to meet the rising demand for in-home services.

“We hope to be able to coordinate a lot of those services to allow people to remain in their home as long as safe for them to do that, and long as they want to be able to do that for as long as they want,” Josh Crisp, founder and CEO of Solinity, told Home Health Care News. “Then, if the needs or the preferences arise, we would have a smooth transition for them into the community, and they would already be in our systems.”

Knoxville, Tennessee-based Solinity is a senior living development, management and marketing company. Solinity’s involvement in home care began when Jacob Chan reached out to Crisp with a vision of how to better support native people on the Hawaiian islands, where he is from. The Solinity family of companies helped Chan and his wife, Lindsay, flesh out their ideas and provided marketing, operations and systems support.

Hawaiian Legacy, and its home care arm, Hawaiian Legacy Home Care, was born. 

Hawaiian Legacy Home Care emphasizes personalized care, Crisp said, and offers assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), respite care and specialized support for different types of frailty and disabilities. The provider currently only accepts private pay but hopes to work with insurance providers in the future, Crisp said.

The home care agency currently has eight clients and employs four caregivers and operates on the island of O‘ahu. Ultimately, Hawaiian Legacy aims to operate in every Hawaiian island.

“From a big picture vision, that’s the focus, to create a quality model that can be scaled to all the islands,” Crisp said.

Hawaiian Legacy is currently preparing to open a senior living community in addition to its home care offerings – a process that is more complicated than its home care launch, according to Crisp.

“In Hawaii in particular, it’s very difficult to develop any real estate from the ground up,” Crisp said. “It’s very time-consuming. Jacob has been working on this vision for about a year, and we’ve been able to expedite that for him, but we’re still several months away from being able to break ground.”

In the meantime, the home care agency can meet the needs of people who will likely eventually want or need to live in a community setting, according to Crisp.

In the long term, Solinity plans to expand its involvement in the home care industry and have home care options near every one of its future community properties. Crisp said that he never imagined that his company’s first venture into the home care world would be in Hawaii, but that it has so far worked out “really well.”

“Our global mission is to change the way traditional senior living providers view senior housing and care,” Crisp said. “It doesn’t just have to be provided in a community setting. We should be able to pivot and meet people where their needs and preferences are.”

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