Visiting Angels Senior Home Care

Our Services 

You Select Your Caregiver. You select  as few or as many of our caregiving services and as many hours you or your loved one wants or needs.

Hourly, Morning, Midday, or Evening 24 hour Live-in Overnight Temporary or Long term Weekends and Holidays

Our Hands-On Personal Care and Disability Services

Hands-on Care:Caregiver Assistance with  Activities of Daily Living

Hygiene Assistance: Individuals often require assistance, but are embarrassed to request it of family members.  Your loved ones will  have  improved hygiene, improving their health, without losing  privacy or dignity.   Meal Preparation: Proper nutritionis important to good health. Frequently seniors  have difficulty maintaining a healthy nutritious diet.   Our caregivers prepare healthy nutritious meals and provide positive influence for good dietary decisions.  Many times  just the availability of  balanced meals  allows  your loved one the ability to make better dietary decisions.    Light Housekeeping; Maintaining a healthy environment can be as important as maintaining a healthy body.  The physical, mental and emotional health are all influenced by our surroundings.     Community Involvement Often, seniors become isolated.  Activities and social interaction in the community, if possible, provides mental stimulation and  a positive outlook   Companionship Living alone without social interaction is demoralizing.  Caring companionship is an most important  service our caregivers provide. Your loved ones will have  caring companion focused on their interests.

Assistance with Bathing or showering Foot Baths Facial Cleansing and Shaving Oral Care Hair Care Assistance with Dressing and Personal Grooming   Planning Menus Shopping Putting Groceries Away Cooking Serving Feeding Assistance Storage of Food Leftovers Cleanup     Vacuuming Dusting Glass cleaning Sweeping sidewalks Tub/toilet/sink cleansing Mopping Laundry (including linens and ironing) Trash and recycling removal   Running Errands Shopping Walks Movies Transportation to Social Activities  Transportation to Doctor Appointments     Playing Cards or Games Helping with a Crossword Puzzle Reading Newspapers, Magazines or Novels Sorting and Organizing Photos Retrieving and Reading Mail Writing Correspondence hearing stories about the  accomplishments of their grandchildren and great grandchildren

Our Companion Services

About Us 

At Visiting Angels, Our Goal is to provide our clients unequaled care, enhancing their mental and physical well-being, maximizing their independence, safety, and quality of life. 

We know it isn't easy to make the decision to invite a stranger into your home to provide  Home care. That is why we focus on personal service and those intangibles that build trust and l asting relationships -- all on a schedule that meets your needs. You are in charge of everything; you tell us what your schedule will be. It is our job to adjust to that schedule so you remain comfortable in your own home.

Our focus is to provide services and recommend community resources to minimize traumatic and disruptive life changes.  

Our Objectives are to create "Gentle Transitions" for our clients and their loved ones, allowing them to comfortably and safely "Age in Place," and to provide our  loved ones the comfort knowing  that their family members are safe and content.

Our Goals are to

• Minimize traumatic and disruptive life changes.
• Enhance our client's independence, safety, and quality of life.
• Provide our client's loved ones comfort knowing, that their family members are safe and content.
• Provide family caregivers a break or respite.
• Provide assistance to a spouse or significant caregiver when providing needed and necessary care   becomes very difficult.
• Assist a terminally ill loved one under hospice care with personal assistance to provide comfort, companionship and needed support.
• Provide caring companionship, reducing loneliness and isolation.

Sometimes, nursing homes or retirement centers seem to be the only options for care. On the other hand, Visiting Angels Homecare provides services that enable people to continue enjoying the independence of their daily routines and familiar surroundings. We can help  avoid the emotional trauma and distress  associated with leaving their cherished home.

Rochelle Landy is the owner of the Hopkins Visiting Angels Office.  This office serves the entire seven county Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.  She is a Licensed Social Worker with over thirty years of extensive experience working with seniors as a Nursing Home Social Service Director and as an Assisted Living Housing Manager. Throughout  her career, she became critically aware of the trauma families and their loved ones face when, because of declining health, are faced with moving to a  more restrictive environment. Her mission was to work where she could help seniors  safely achieve as much self-determination and self-reliance as possible  in their familiar surroundings. 

This office of Visiting Angels is  six years old and is located in Hopkins, Minnesota.  Visiting Angels was founded in the 1980's by Jeffrey Johnson, a nursing home Social Service Director in the Baltimore area. He heard families express frustration about the few alternatives other than in the nursing home placement. In the summer of 1991, Jeffrey resigned from his position in the nursing home and started a home care agency. Jeffery's passion has led to over 360 Visiting Angels agencies. 

Our Caregivers

It is most important to put your needs first

At Visiting Angels, we know it isn't easy to make the decision to invite a stranger into your home to provide non-medical homecare.

You will have the opportunity to interview any caregiver that we refer to you. You will only accept a caregiver that you feel comfortable with. All of our caregivers are are certified by our R.N.  and have extensive hands-on experience.

Our personalized screening system is the best in homecare. It is designed to maximize your peace of mind -- we do extensive reference and national criminal background checks.

In our selection process, we seek to find caregivers that share your desire to build a comfortable lasting relationship. When you meet one of our caregivers, you're going to be pleased to see that at Visiting Angels, character matters!

Caregivers with Character! 

Signs That a Loved-One May be Needing Home Care

 There are a number of signs indicating that a person may need personal  assistance in the home.

 This checklist is intended to assist you in identifying if there is an immediate need for care. Review the checklist and if you identify that any of these changes have occurred, you should arrange for a consultation about home health care.

We can assess the situation and advise you or your loved on about available options.

Changes in Personal Care and Mobility

1. Difficulty with bathing, improper grooming or lack of proper hygiene
2. Incontinence and improper or incomplete bathing/cleansing of self and home
3. Forgetting to eat, not eating nutritious meals, sudden weight loss or lack of hydration
4. Increasing unsteadiness and/or falling down, or trouble getting out of a chair
5. Difficulty doing laundry, dishes, and doing grocery shopping

Changes in Health Care Status

6. Mismanagement of medications, confusion about what to take and when.
7. Recently diagnosed with life altering or chronic illness
8. Recently discharged from hospital, or going home after surgery
9. Frequent hospitalizations or trips to the Emergency Room
10. Recent physical impairment, including stroke, loss of limb or other major injury

Changes in Life Management

11. Trouble paying bills or handling correspondence, or changes in purchasing patterns
12. Unable to use the telephone or does not answer the phone, or respond to messages
13. Expressed need for help at home, things becoming too much too handle
14. Leaving the stove or other appliances on, letting bathtubs or sinks overflowing, creating  safety hazard

Changes in Attitude/Behavior

15. Sadness, loneliness, isolation, or confusion
16. Appearance has changed/deteriorated
17. Sudden mood swings, anger, anxiety or depression
18. Getting lost easily or starting to wander
19. Difficultly understanding others/remembering names or situations and locations

Changes in Family Situation

20. Recently lost a spouse or primary support/caregiver
21. Caregiver works and cannot respond to the client's needs on a regular basis
22. Family is overwhelmed by client's circumstances
23. Family is in conflict over how best to meet client's personal needs
24.  Caregiver or family is geographically distant or has recently moved farther away from client