Jean Griswold

Jean Griswold (born July 30, 1930) is an American entrepreneur. She is the founder of Griswold Home Care, a corporation founded in 1982 to provide non-medical, in-home care for the elderly and infirm. She has been the subject of ongoing press attention because she founded a successful corporation despite using a wheelchair because she suffers from multiple sclerosis.

In 1982 Griswold founded a home care company for the elderly and disabled. Initially called Overnight Sitting Service prompted by her discovery that there was no company offering overnight companionship for the frail elderly. The first caregivers Griswold hired when she started the company working from her dining room table were seminary students who stayed nights with the elderly. According to Inc. (magazine) by 1989 the company was a $10-million, multi-state business.

The company was soon renamed Special Care Inc., then renamed Griswold Home Care. In 2005 it was described by the Philadelphia Business Journal as, "the nation's largest, privately owned nonmedical home-care company." By 2006 the company had 87 franchises in 16 states and some outside the United States. In 2009 it had 103 franchises. Griswold, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was in a wheelchair when she founded the company, and continues to work from her wheelchair.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society presented Griswold with the 2002 MS National Achievement Award.