Support shaped around each person
Avian Care serves adults 55 and older, and no two residents need the same things, so no two care plans look the same. One person needs a hand with buttons in the morning. Another wants a ride to work and someone to cheer at their softball game. Another is protecting a hard-won recovery. This is what everyone can draw on, in whatever measure fits.
Someone is in the house, all night
Staff are here 24 hours a day, awake overnight, weekends and holidays included. That is the part families ask about first and the part that lets them sleep. A hard night at 3 a.m. has somebody sitting up with you, not a number to call.
The office answers the phone 9 to 5 on weekdays. The house itself never closes.
The mornings are easy too. Coffee whenever you are up. Breakfast around seven, and nobody makes you rush it.
What daily support covers
Meals at one table
Cooked in the house and planned around what each person needs: low salt, diabetic, vegetarian, or just what somebody actually likes. Residents are welcome in the kitchen, and plenty of them want to be.
Medications on schedule
Given by trained staff and signed for every time, then reviewed by the nurse against what each prescriber ordered.
Personal care
Bathing, dressing and grooming, with as much or as little help as you want, and safe hands between bed, chair and shower.
Rides where life happens
To appointments, day programs, work and worship.
Housekeeping and laundry
Done for you, or done alongside you if you would rather keep a hand in your own.
The medical side, handled without the fuss
A registered nurse oversees medications and health needs and keeps in touch with each resident's own prescribers. Staff who give medications are trained to do it and sign for every dose.
In a house of five, a change in appetite or a sore foot gets noticed the same week rather than at the next quarterly review. That is most of what a small home is actually worth.
None of this should be your job to chase. If something changes, you hear it from us before you have to ask.
Medication administration. Given by trained staff, recorded, and reviewed by the nurse against what each prescriber ordered.
Health monitoring. Vital signs, weight, appetite, sleep, and the small changes that mean something is shifting.
Head-to-toe assessments. The nurse looks a person over properly, not just at whatever prompted the visit. It is how the quiet problems get caught early.
Diabetic and foot care. Routine care for the things that get missed when nobody is paying close attention.
Mobility and transfers. Safe help moving between bed, chair and shower, with the equipment that suits the person.
Coordination with your own doctors. We work with the clinicians a resident already has rather than moving everyone to ours.
Hard moments get a plan before they happen
Behavior management here starts with a written plan for each resident that names what sets them off, what helps, and how staff respond. It is followed the same way, every time, on every shift, because inconsistency is what turns a bad hour into a bad week.
A written plan per resident. Triggers, what helps, and the exact staff response, written down and worked from on every shift instead of sitting in a folder.
The same response every time. Consistency across shifts and staff. A resident should never have to work out which version of the rules is on tonight.
Prevention over reaction. We watch for the build-up rather than waiting for the blow-up, and adjust the day when somebody is heading for a hard one.
Reviewed as things change. Plans get updated when a person does, with their input and their care team's, not once a year out of habit.
A household that protects sobriety
For residents in recovery, substance abuse management is built into the house itself. We drive to meetings and appointments, coordinate with treatment providers, and keep the days structured and full, because empty time is where things come apart.
Nobody here is treated as their history. Recovery is one of the things we support, alongside everything else a person needs.
- Rides to meetings, appointments and treatment
- Coordination with treatment providers and counselors
- Structured, full days rather than empty afternoons
- A household where sobriety is the shared expectation
- Staff who notice a change in mood or routine early
Who pays for a place like this
Most families never pay out of pocket. In Minnesota, residential care is usually funded through Medical Assistance waiver programs, and the door into all of it is your county. If nobody has assessed your person yet, call your county human services department and ask for a MnCHOICES assessment.
We also work with long-term care insurance and private pay. Funding rules change and every situation is different, so your county case manager has the current answer. If you get stuck, call us at (651) 366-9972. It costs nothing to ask.