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Homemaking serves
to maintain a safe and comfortable home by assisting clients with regular
household activities such as: grocery shopping, meal preparation, laundry,
arranging transportation to appointments and light housekeeping. Homemaking
is available on a visiting or shift basis.
Home Support Services assist
clients to maximize their independence in the home through the provision
of supportive activities such as: home delivered meals, transportation,
caregiver relief/respite, security checks and escorting to appointments.
Personal Care provides a range of essential
daily activities and is specialized to meet patient's personal care
needs to make them more comfortable. Some of these include: personal
hygiene such as washing and bathing, mouth care, preventative skin
care; assistance with toileting; dressing; assistance with medication;
transferring or positioning into a chair, vehicle or bed; assistance
with eating; assistance in therapeutic exercises, companionship and
emotional support. Depending on your needs, personal care can be
provided on a per visit basis, which is generally considered less than
two hours or on a shift basis that can extend up to 12 hours.
Visiting Health Services include the professional
services of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social
workers, speech-language pathologists or dietitians. Visiting services
generally do not extend beyond two hours and are intended help you to
maintain or improve health or teach how to manage a health condition,
either temporarily after being in hospital,
or an ongoing basis as needed to help an individual to adapt to an
illness or injury.
- Nursing is responsible to care for
patients with special needs, such as: Cardiac Care, Behavioral Health
Care, Diabetic Teaching & Monitoring,
IV Therapy, Case Management, Maternal Child Health, Pediatric & Pediatric
Asthma, Pre & Post Operative Joint Replacement Care, Wound Care,
Geriatric Care. Aspects of skilled nursing may include provision of
direct hands-on care, interventions to instruct patients in being competent
with his/her own care, or educating family members to take on the care
provider's role. Skilled nursing may also encompass providing health
teaching, case management, alternative therapies or identifying additional
services needed in the home. Nursing
is available on a visiting or shift basis.
- Physiotherapy provides assessment,
treatment and education of movement problems that result from pain,
disease, accident, injury, aging or life long
disabilities. This includes pain management strategies for acute and
chronic movement disorders, as well as functional mobility assessments.
Through the use of exercises and modalities (such as heat, ice, TENS,
laser and ultrasound), physiotherapists help clients return or adapt
to regular daily activities.
- Speech Language Pathology provides
assessment, counseling and treatment in speech, language disorders,
swallowing difficulties, and augmentative and alternative communication.
- Occupational Therapy works to ensure
the client's return to his/her maximum level of functioning so that
he/she can safely participate in daily activities of self care, work
and leisure. The Occupational Therapist educates the client in adaptive
technique which will make it possible to perform activities of daily
living within the framework of physical limitations.
- Social Work assists individuals to
cope with the stresses (emotional, psychological or financial) that
often accompany illness. Social Workers counsel families in crisis
and help locate financial assistance for those in need.
- Dietetic Services provide nutritional
assessment and consultation to individuals, families, caregivers and
groups. Dietitians work with clients in areas of general nutrition,
therapeutic diets, disease prevention and health promotion.
- Medical Equipment Services provide the equipment and support
to use it safely within the home setting. Staff will generally visit
the home to assist in the set-up. Many providers offer equipment on
a lease or purchase basis.
Specialties
- Palliative care
- Alzheimer care
- Intravenous therapy
- Continence therapy
- Dialysis
- Pediatrics
- Maternal / Newborn Care
- Ventilator Care
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Psychiatric care
- Rehabilitation
- Foot care
- Case management Travel – within Canada
- Case management Travel - international
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