Finding Out About Local Home And Health Care Programs

Home care is a group of services to help people live at home when they are ill or recovering from an illness or surgery rather than staying in a hospital or long-term care facility.


Basic Services


  1. Bullet Visiting nurses

  2. Bullet Home support (help with homemaking such as light housekeeping, shopping, cooking, laundry)

  3. BulletPhysiotherapy

  4. Bullet Occupational therapy

  5. Bullet Respiratory therapy

  6. Bullet Social work counseling

  7. Bullet Nutritional counseling

  8. Bullet Housing registry

  9. Bullet Personal emergency response systems

Complex Services

  1. Bullet Home intravenous antibiotic therapy

  2. Bullet Life support/ventilator assistance systems

  3. Bullet Services for children with complex needs

  4. BulletTube feedings (either by nose or through the stomach wall)

  5. BulletHome cancer therapy

  6. Bullet Palliative or hospice care

  7. Bullet Care for people who have some form of dementia.

Community Support Services

  1. Bullet Adult day centers

  2. Bullet Meals-on-wheels and/or wheels to meals programs

  3. Bullet Respite care (so that caregivers can have some time off)

  4. Bullet Transportation help

  5. Bullet Help with shopping

  6. Bullet Help with home maintenance.

Home care programs across Canada and the United States provide different services. To find out what is available in your community, you can check with your family doctor, community health office, or other home health care providers. If a particular service is not available in your community, ask your political leaders why and how your community can arrange to get such service in the near future. If you have difficulty in finding out what services are available, you can contact:


Canadian Home Care Association


Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association

 

The info below is taken, with permission from the book Caring for Loved Ones at Home

 

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