Do you have a senior loved one who lives hundreds or thousands of miles away and needs in-home assistance? Although phone calls, text messages, and FaceTime can help you stay in touch, you need more than a smartphone to deliver hands-on elder care if your loved one needs quality senior care.

Visiting Angels offers a solution — professional home care. While nursing homes are an option for some, in-home care has many benefits, like keeping your loved one in a comfortable and familiar place. Home care services often cost less than a facility. This also allows your loved one to get one-on-one care from in-home care services, which can make a huge difference in their quality of life.

Whether your elderly loved one lives 90 minutes down the interstate or a five-hour plane ride away, Visiting Angels will bridge the distance gap by providing compassionate home care services to accommodate their needs.

What Is a Long-Distance Caregiver?

A long-distance caregiver, usually a family caregiver, is someone who takes care of a loved one from at least an hour away. While they may not be able to provide the care themselves, they are often managing the finances, arranging for in-home health care, advocating for their loved ones and their needs, and planning for future emergencies or long-term care costs.

How Do You Arrange Long-Distance Home Care Services?

The power of a national network, like Visiting Angels, can help you find the best home care providers in your loved one's area and make it easy for you to coordinate services. With more than 25 years of senior care experience, Visiting Angels has supported families who live in different cities, counties, states — or even countries — with devoted long-distance home care.

Here are some ways Visiting Angels long-distance support can aid your senior loved one:

Expert Guidance

Need help finding in-home care in another city or need expert guidance? Simply contact the nearest Visiting Angels home care office for your loved one's area or call 847-999-3313 for more information about professional services.

Long-Distance Consultations

Visiting Angels will coordinate an initial home care consultation that includes you and other family and friends. Even if you live on the other side of the world, Visiting Angels can keep you involved via phone, email, or video.

Planning and Scheduling

After getting to know your loved one and their needs and gathering your feedback, a coordinator will develop a detailed home care plan and schedule.

Ongoing Communication

Visiting Angels will notify you of any changes or concerns regarding your senior’s physical, emotional, and cognitive well-being and any health or living situation issues.

Multi-Location Collaboration

If your loved one splits time between two cities or makes frequent long-distance trips to visit family and friends, Visiting Angels will coordinate appropriate assistance through another home care office in the national skilled nursing network.

What Long-Distance Home Care Services Are Available?

Visiting Angels will tailor a personalized plan for your aging parent or relative based on their health needs, habits, routines, preferences, and living situation.

Long-distance assistance may include:

• Elderly companion care such as socialization, transportation services, and meal preparation
• Personal care like medication reminders, bathing, light housekeeping, or grooming
• Alzheimer’s care and dementia care
• Respite care to support your loved one in combination with a family caregiver
• Other services, including the Safe and Steady fall prevention program, can be helpful if your loved one lives alone and is at high risk for accidents in their house

Visiting Angels can combine programs into a comprehensive plan to enhance your loved one’s care in their own homes and give you peace of mind.

What Are the Benefits of Long-Distance In-Home Care?

Being away from a loved one that needs care can take a mental toll. Whether you have other family or loved ones in the area, it can still be challenging to manage your family members’ home health care services from afar. However, there are so many benefits to working with a home care agency. Here are a few:

Personalized care tailored to individual needs

Unlike a nursing home, in-home senior care services provide a more personalized experience. In a nursing home, your loved one is one of many with medical care needs, but with in-home care, there is a one-to-one relationship. The at-home health care professional can create a personal connection with your loved one and support their individual needs.

Peace of mind for distant family members

If you live far from your family members or loved ones, not being there to help them can be stressful. With in-home care, your loved ones will get the attention and care they need and you can rest assured that they’re in good hands.

Continuity of care and familiarity with caregivers

Because in-home care offers a more personalized experience, the family and your loved one develop a connection with their caregivers. This continuation of care can increase your loved one’s quality of life.

Care recipient maintains independence and quality of life

With in-home care, your loved one can maintain their independence through being comfortable and familiar with their surroundings, and staying in their own home.

Get Long-Distance Home Care Services in Northbrook

Visiting Angels Northbrook makes it easy to find dedicated home care for a loved one who lives miles away. Whether your loved one is in Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Kenilworth, Northbrook, Skokie, Wilmette, Winnetka, or Evanston, Visiting Angels has home health care providers to support you.

Call Visiting Angels Northbrook at 847-999-3313 to find the best in-home assistance for your loved one today.