When it comes right down to it, it’s hard to believe the senior home care industry hasn’t grown even more than it has.

Begun in 1880s, home care constitutes a growing industry of more than 33,000 providers serving an estimated 12 million clients. In 2009, the annual expenditures for home health care topped $72 billion, according to National Association for Home Care & Hospice based in Washington, D.C.

“There are 78 million baby boomers that will becoming the majority – 11,000 a day [turning 65] for the next 19 years. That will change every facet of society,” association President Val Halamandaris said. “America is going to go so far as to be a geritocracy.”