In-home services available through Home and Community Care Support Services organizations are made up of the followings:
Health Care
You can arrange to have health professionals visit you in your home. They can assess your needs, provide care or help you to care for yourself by providing:
- Nursing care – including help to take medications, change bandages and clean wounds, recover from an injury or health problem, check your health, create a care plan
- Physiotherapy – including help for back pain, mobility problems, blood circulation, pain relief and relaxation
- Occupational therapy – including help to make day-to-day activities easier and make it easier to move around in home
- Speech-language therapy – including stroke recovery for seniors who have difficulty speaking or understanding speech
- Social work – including help for caregivers to cope and manage stress, help for families to address conflicts
- Healthy eating – including help to assess eating habits and create a healthy eating plan
- Home healthcare supplies – including dressings, walking aids, braces, cushions
Personal Care
You can arrange for health care professionals to help yoau with your daily care or help you safely manage these activities yourself. They can help you with:
- washing and bathing
- mouth care
- hair care
- preventative skin care
- routine hand or foot care
- getting in and out of chairs, vehicles or beds
- vehicles or beds
- dressing and undressing
- eating
- toileting
- taking you to appointments
Homemaking
To help maintain a safe and comfortable home, homemaking services can assist you with routine household activities including:
- housecleaning
- doing laundry
- shopping
- banking
- paying bills
- planning menus
- preparing menus
- caring for children