Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness
6100 Normandale Rd. (Located in Normandale Lutheran Church)
Edina, MN 55436
Telephone: 952-929-1697
Fax: 952-929-2767
The Normandale Center for Healing and Wholeness, based in Edina, Minnesota, is a nonprofit, faith-founded organization that "walks with" older adults and their family members to support them in body, mind, & spirit. This community organization was founded in 1998 as a pilot and then as a 501(c) (3) charitable organization in 2000.
The Center serves over 500 older persons and family members each year in Edina, Bloomington, and surrounding areas. The Center provides friendly visitors and rides through volunteers, health education, wellness, and screening/prevention, resource information and coordination, foot care, loaner adaptive equipment, and other education and support such as telephone reassurance or caregiver training. Five part-time staff and over 100 volunteers come together to serve.
The Center is guided in its work by a 13-member volunteer Board of Directors made up of experts in aging, senior housing, health care, pastoral ministry, elderlaw, and other fields such as communications and business/ management.
The Center relies on grants and donations to operate.
Since 2001, approximately 50-60% of its funding has come from grants. This has provided funding to create and test new supportive care models and develop new technology, such as an electronic, Internet-based resource tool for caregivers and seniors. The Center is known locally for its innovative, collaborative initiatives.
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Purpose
Our founders sought to create a center that would support seniors and their family caregivers in their homes and communities and in senior residences and institutional settings through holistic services and collaborative programming.
For seniors experiencing health or living arrangement transitions, we strive to:
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Establish or maintain seniors' connections with their communities
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Alleviate isolation
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Extend independence
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Improve quality of life
For family caregivers, we strive to:
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Alleviate caregiver burden
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Improve caregivers' capacity to continue in their supportive roles
Background: The Normandale Center For Healing & Wholeness is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization that seeks to be a welcoming place ministering in mind, body, and spirit to two generations-seniors and their family caregivers.
For more information, contact the Director of the Center, Deborah Paone, at 952.929.1697, ext 45.
Center for Healing & Wholeness Brochure
Who We Serve
We serve a geographic area consisting of Edina, West Bloomington, and sections of Richfield, Eden Prairie, South Minneapolis, and St. Louis Park. The great majority of our "clients" come from Edina.
Most of the people who call or come to the Center do so because of failing health, terminal illness, or functional decline. The individual who requests help may be an adult child of an aging parent living alone, the spouse or a friend of a frail elder, or an older person who feels that he or she cannot cope well at home anymore, but does not want or cannot afford to move into assisted living or a nursing home.
Words of Appreciation
"I want to express our appreciation for all that you did for Dad as well as for Mom. Your volunteers who serve as drivers for appointments, visit with Dad and Mom, and man the foot care clinic are truly a gift from God to our family."
"You have no idea how blessed I know I am to have the kind, thoughtful, unselfish, and dependable friends who transport me hither and yon."
"I can't say anything more except how very, very happy and pleased and appreciative I am for the work of the Center. Their work with us has helped me and my family. My family members in particular are so relieved now that they know that all this help is available. I don't have family or relatives close by. They are all out of state. And so, the first time my daughter from Montana called the Center, right off, they said that they could do this or do that. It was just such a tremendous load off of them and off of us too."