Long Distance Care Giving

Help Is Available in Minnesota for Long Distance Care Givers

In this 21st century, more and more adult children are accepting positions that take them to locations far away from parents.  Long distance care giving is a  growing phenomenon.  Many large businesses now contract with organizations that take care of employee assistance including finding help for parents who live in another part of the country.

Organizations like the Alzheimer’s Association (www.alz.org,) the Arthritis Foundation (www.arthritis.org,) and various online resources about caregiving are available with help for family members who are caregiving at a distance.

 Seniors’ Choice at Home, a Minnesota-based, non-medical home care agency helps many seniors whose children live far away.  Caregivers have, at the request of a daughter living in California, made an Easter dinner and spent the afternoon with a Mom who would otherwise have been alone on that holiday.  In another instance, a Seniors’ Choice caregiver, picked up a client and her sister early in the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and drove them to a cousin’s condo, so they all could spend several hours together.  They arranged to be picked up early that evening.  We have accompanied a client to the airport, arranged for a gate pass, and actually stayed with the client at the gate until airline personnel saw the client safely on the plan and on her way to visit her daughter.  

Help is available for the long distance family caregiver, whether in terms of a range of home services or just for ideas and support through a website.  For more information, call us at 763-546-1599, or e-mail Marilyn at crseniors@usfamily.net.