Our home turf in southeast Los Angeles County, minutes from our Uptown Whittier office.
Long Distance Elder Care
When you love someone in Los Angeles or Orange County but live somewhere else, we become your eyes, ears and hands on the ground.
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Caring for an aging parent from afar is a job without tools. We are the tools.
Long distance caregiving is a role millions of adult children never applied for: managing an aging parent’s life from hundreds of miles away: phone calls that reveal nothing, neighbors who report too late, flights booked in a panic. A local caregiver on a regular schedule replaces guesswork with facts and worry with a plan.
Updates you can trust
After every visit you hear how mom actually is: what she ate, how she moved, what changed. Real observations from a trained caregiver, not a reassuring voice on the phone saying everything is fine.
Problems caught early
Weight slipping, medications untouched, a bruise, mail piling up. The point of regular eyes on the ground is that small warnings get to you while they are still small.
Hands, not just reports
Meals cooked, rides to the doctor, the home kept safe and personal care handled. Everything you would do if you lived nearby, done by someone who does.
What long distance elder care includes
You stay the decision-maker. We are your presence in the home, structured so distance stops being the problem.
Regular visits with real reporting
From a couple of check-in visits a week to daily care, each visit ends with an update to the family: photos when helpful, honest notes always. You will know more about your parent’s week than you did when you relied on phone calls.
Local coordination
We drive to appointments and can relay what the doctor said, meet deliveries and repair people, and keep an organized record of medications, providers and contacts. When something needs a decision, you decide with complete information instead of fragments.
A plan for emergencies
Before anything goes wrong, we document the plan: who gets called, which hospital, where the papers are, which neighbor has a key. If a crisis comes while you are hours away, the response starts immediately instead of waiting for your flight.
How we help families
Long distance caregivers usually reach us at one of these three points. The earlier one is the easier one.
Dad says everything is fine, but he said that last time too, and the visit at Thanksgiving told a different story. A weekly caregiver visit gives you ground truth: how he is really eating, moving and managing, reported by someone trained to look.
- Scheduled visits with honest reports after each one.
- Meals, errands and company built into the check-in.
- Gentle start for a parent reluctant to accept help.
- You call knowing the facts, not fishing for them.
A fall, an ER visit, a neighbor’s worried call: the moment every long distance family dreads. We can be in the home within a day, stabilize the daily routine, and stay while the family works out the longer-term plan from wherever they are.
- Fast start, often within 24 hours.
- Daily support while the family plans.
- A trained observer reporting how recovery is going.
- An emergency plan documented for the next time.
You fly in every month or two and spend the whole visit catching up on problems: the fridge, the pills, the bills, the doctor. With a caregiver handling the week-to-week, your visits go back to being time with your parent instead of triage.
- The household kept running between your trips.
- Appointments scheduled around your visit dates.
- Issues fixed as they appear, not stockpiled for you.
- Your time home spent as family, not as staff.
Starting care
Getting help in place is simpler than most families expect. Four steps, usually completed within a day or two, and nothing to sign until you are sure.
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Step 1 Conversation
Call us and tell us what is happening. No script, no pressure. We will tell you honestly whether home care is the right answer for your family.
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Step 2 Assessment
A care coordinator visits your home, looks at the practical realities of the house, and talks with your loved one directly about what they want.
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Step 3 Care Plan
You get a written plan with specific hours, tasks and goals, so everyone knows what success looks like. It changes as needs change.
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Step 4 Your Caregiver
We match on skills and on personality, and we introduce you before care begins. If the fit is wrong, we change it at no cost.
A VA-Approved Home Care Provider
We proudly serve Los Angeles and Orange County’s Veterans through government-approved care programs. If your loved one served, VA benefits may cover part or all of their in-home care, and we will help you navigate the paperwork.
Talk to us about VA benefitsMeet the Loving Homecare team
These are not the caregivers who will be in your home. They are the office team in Uptown Whittier who hire, train and support those caregivers, and who answer when you call.
Tanner
Operations & Community Director
Sarjoun
Director of Care Management
Tania
Care Coordination Manager
Lupe
Office Manager
Frequently asked questions
If you have questions about how this service works, we are here to help. These are the ones families ask us most, and you can always call for a straight answer.
Ask us anythingEverything can be done remotely. We start with a phone conversation with the family, then an in-home assessment with your parent, which you can join by video. You approve the care plan, meet the caregiver virtually, and receive updates from the first visit on. Many of our client families have never been in the same room with us.
After every visit you get an update: what was done, what was eaten, how your parent seemed, anything that changed. You choose the channel and the rhythm, from brief texts to detailed weekly summaries plus an immediate call whenever something needs attention.
We follow the emergency plan we build with you at the start: who gets called first, which hospital, where documents live. If something happens during a visit, the caregiver responds immediately and you hear from us right away, so the response never waits on your travel.
Start small and practical: a weekly visit framed as help with housekeeping, meals or driving rather than "a caregiver." Most reluctant parents accept help delivered as convenience, and once the relationship forms, expanding it is easy. We are experienced at exactly this introduction.
Yes. Transportation to appointments is one of the most used parts of long distance care, and with the proper permissions in place the caregiver can relay the visit summary and instructions to the family the same day.
The same hourly rates as our other care, and most long distance families start with just a few hours a week of check-in visits. It is a small price for peace of mind, and it usually costs less than one emergency flight. The assessment is free: (562) 448-3854.
Locations We Serve
Proudly providing in-home senior care across Los Angeles & Orange County.
Established neighborhoods east of Los Angeles where many families are caring for a parent at home.
From Brea down through Anaheim, with quick access across the county line from Whittier.
- Brea
- La Habra
- Fullerton
- Placentia
- Yorba Linda
- Buena Park
- Anaheim
- Cypress
- Stanton
- La Palma
- Villa Park
The heart of the county, close to the hospitals and specialists families travel to most.
- Santa Ana
- Garden Grove
- Westminster
- Tustin
- Fountain Valley
- Irvine
Beach communities where staying close to the water is part of what home means.
- Seal Beach
- Los Alamitos
- Huntington Beach
- Costa Mesa
- Newport Beach
- Corona Del Mar
- Laguna Beach
- Dana Point
- Capistrano Beach
- San Clemente
Master-planned communities and hillside neighborhoods from Aliso Viejo to San Juan Capistrano.
- Aliso Viejo
- Lake Forest
- Laguna Hills
- Laguna Niguel
- Laguna Woods
- Mission Viejo
- Ladera Ranch
- Rancho Santa Margarita
- San Juan Capistrano
Let’s create a care plan that fits your family
Speak with a Whittier care coordinator today. No pressure, no obligation, and an honest answer about whether home care is right for you.
