The 3 Best Home Care Agencies for Seniors in Clear Lake, MN for 2025

"I have been using Home Instead Senior Care to help with caring for my mom who has dementia for the last six months or so. Every staff member from the care provider through the nurses and office staff have been very professional, very knowledgeable, very willing to listen, and very willing to help find solutions. All of them, throughout the process of caring for my mom have been willing and able to explain policies, procedures and state law in a way that makes it easy to understand. Understanding, and following, state law is very important. They have demonstrated a willingness to work with my mother and I not only with her illness but also with the pandemic. I have worked with three other home care providers and the home health aide that comes in to assist with my mom is one of the best trained individuals that I have ever worked with. She understands dementia and does not lose her patience or gets frustrated by my mother's inability to remember or by my mother's progressing lack of impulse control. This is one of the best agencies that I have worked with."

"My dad is 100% disabled from the military. The VA provides him with home care from Visiting Angels that come in every day from 10 am to 2 pm to do light housekeeping, laundry, fix his meals, make sure he takes his medication, and make sure he showers. They don't have to help him with the shower but just stay there so he doesn't fall. They then come back from 7 to 9 at night to make sure he takes the nighttime medication and make sure he uses oxygen, he has COPD, and it's set up. I know the workforce out there finds it hard to hire and keep employees. There's been a couple of times that we've had no-shows and that's kind of disheartening. I think the first couple of times, we didn't get a call from them. We were just sitting there and waiting and they didn't call. Nobody showed up so we ended up calling them. I don't know if they didn't call us because they knew somebody was there, they knew one of us was there. We called them to say we didn't have anybody there. They were like, "Oh yeah, they called in sick" so I said, "Well, can't you call us or don't you have a backup plan". They said, "Well, we're short on staff". We just started with them in December so it's all kind of new. They're good and I want to say that compared to some other clients that they have, my dad is probably low maintenance. They're there for 4 hours, 7 days a week. If they clean on Monday, I think Tuesday is when they change his bed and do his laundry. On Wednesday they come and it's like, "Okay, it doesn't need to be cleaned again. It was just to clean up on Monday". He likes his one meal late in the day. One day I had one of them make chocolate chip cookies. Another day they made some barley soup and we ate it later. We have to figure out a meal plan and say, "Ok, on Wednesday make him mashed potatoes and gravy and save it and we'll eat it later instead of eating it right there when you're done" I think most of them are pretty fine. If you tell them to do something, they'll do it. They come in and they clean up the toilet. He sleeps a lot but they try to interact and talk to him. We also get a nurse that comes every Thursday and she does his medication for a week. She changes his urostomy bag so he gets a new one every week. Last week I was there and he seemed to be having trouble breathing, and she thought so too, so she listened to his lungs and said he's got a gurgle at the right bottom left lung. I called the VA and they sent a month's medication."

"Vicki and Jeff helped us through the process of selecting a caregiver for Mom. Hannah was a kind and caring person and Mom always looked forward to her visits. The office was always concerned and supportive when any special circumstances needed addressing. "

"Angela K's Angel's Care is a rarest of jewels in the True Healing Spectrum in the USA & Minnesota. My 'elderly' Mother showed unprecedented improvement & Healing after being diagnosed with congenital heart failure & dementia. After several failed episodes in conventional (USA) hospitals, my dear mother was blessed to be sent to Angel's Care by my siblings. Mother Healed! Within a short period of time & Angela's holistic, nutritious meal regimen (No chemicals, processed "food" nor HFCS or GMO's!) My 83/yo mother was up, going on long walks & even doing joyful shopping-sprees! Which she hadn't done in YEARS! Angela made her exercise! And Mother was actually Laughing! Angela has an innate proclivity to address both the physical & psychological needs of the patient. These needs go hand in hand! I Highly recommend the Angel's Care Protocol as Light-Years Superior to any other facility I have known & researched in the USA. Angel's Care is truly a Safe-Haven. And Angela truly has an Angels Touch. Ten Stars 💜 "