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2010 | A Resource for Those Who
Care About Seniors
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When Too Much Stuff Becomes a Household Hazard
You enter your dad's home and can't believe
the stacks of stuff that have accumulated on
every flat surface: piles of newspapers and
mail everywhere, the medicine cabinet
overflowing with 10 years worth of hair spray
(despite his being bald), heaps of dirty
laundry on the bed so there is no place for
him to sleep. You wonder how it got this bad.
The tendency to accumulate possessions isn't
limited to seniors, but those who can't or
won't give up their stuff may be putting
themselves and their homes at risk. The
hazards are many, from slipping on loose
papers to the threat of fire to the health
effects of mold.
read more
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Strategies for Helping Seniors De-Clutter
Getting rid of possessions is actually a
two-step process: sorting and deciding, on the
one hand, and disposing on the other. But
convincing seniors can be a challenge that
requires a measured approach.
Katherine "Kit" Anderson, CPO-CD, president of
the National Study Group on Chronic
Disorganization (NSGCD), and Vickie Dellaquila,
certified professional organizer and author of
Don't Toss My Memories in the Trash,
offer these strategies for helping seniors let
go.
- Arrange and cheer small victories.
- Conduct an "experiment."
- Gently approach the idea of health and
safety.
- Draft an agreement. Consider the control
issue.
For more information, download "If
Your Senior Won't Let Go" (529 K
PDF) from Home Instead Senior Care.
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How to Spot "Clutter Creep"
If you notice the following characteristics
about seniors or their homes, clutter could
start creeping up on them.
- Piles of mail and unpaid bills
- Difficulty walking safely through a home
- Frustration trying to organize
- Difficulty managing activities of daily
living
- Expired food in the refrigerator
- Jammed closets and drawers
- Compulsive shopping
- Difficulty deciding whether to discard
items
- A health episode such as a stroke or
dementia
- Loneliness
Download "A
Caregiver's Guide to Spot Clutter Creep"
(479 K PDF)
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Emotional Attachments and Other Reasons
Seniors Accumulate Clutter
Home Instead CAREGiver SM Betty
Collins remembers the half a dozen strips of
yarn she found on her client's rug. When she
bent down to pick up and discard the yarn, her
client stopped her with a resounding "no, no,
no." "She told me that her daughter, who has
since died, played with the yarn when she was
little," Collins said. "She had to see that
every day."
Seniors hang on to their possessions for a
variety of reasons from sentimental attachment
to health issues that stand in the way of home
upkeep and even safety. "In addition, older
adults are often set in their ways and
everything to them becomes important," Collins
said. "Junk to us is their life. That builds
up and some seniors just don't know what to do
with it. A lot of older adults walk with a
walker and live by themselves. They just set
things aside and then become overwhelmed."
For more information, download " 10
Reasons Seniors Hang On To Stuff and What to
Do About It" (602 K PDF).
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These online discussions can provide helpful
hints and tips.
Simpler
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clutter-free with clutter-busting articles,
tips and resources. Learn the basics of
cutting clutter, discover your clutter
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National Study Group on Chronic
Disorganization
NSGCD) is a non-profit organization
serving professional organizers and
related professionals who are interested
in the study and methods of serving
chronically disorganized people.
Organization Rules is the Web
site of Vickie Dellaquila, certified
professional organizer and author of
Don't
Toss My Memories in the Trash. In
addition to offering organizing services
and products, the site includes tips,
articles, and a newsletter.
The
National Association of Senior Move
Managers (NASMM) is a
not-for-profit, professional association
of organizations dedicated to assisting
older adults and families with the
physical and emotional demands of
downsizing, relocating, or modifying their
homes.
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May Monthly Health Flyer
April Health Observance Flyer
Winter 2010 | A Resource for Those Who Care About
Seniors
In This Issue:
Tips for Keeping Seniors Active
The Good News About Aging
Signs of Declining Health in Aging Adults
Help from Get Mom Moving
Video: Meet one senior fighting frailty
Tips for Keeping Seniors Active
It's easy to look on aging with fear; there's plenty at stake. Mom
worries about falling in her home — maybe breaking a hip — and losing
her independence. Of course you worry, too. Both of you know that
growing frailty and loss of independence can be the beginning of a
downward spiral. In fact, new research conducted for the Home Instead
Senior Care® network confirmed that 90 percent of seniors put loss of
independence at the top of their list of aging worries. It's a valid
concern... read more
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The Good News About Aging
While staying physically active may be a challenge for seniors, getting
Mom and Dad moving can help prevent and even reverse signs of frailty.
That's according to Stephanie Studenski, M.D., M.P.H., one of the
nation's foremost authorities and researchers of mobility, balance
disorders, and falls in older adults. "Through activity," Dr. Studenski,
says, "seniors build both physical and mental reserves that can help
their bodies better tolerate problems that come with aging... read more
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Signs of Declining Health in Aging Adults
As a family caregiver, how can you tell if your loved one is in trouble?
A number of conditions — from a heart attack or stroke to falls and
weight loss — can result in frailty. Here are some of the warning signs
that an elderly person is becoming frail.
Change: Mom has always been interested in talking to the neighbors,
reading the newspaper, or volunteering but is withdrawing from those
interests. Suggest she see her doctor.
Inactivity: Dad is suddenly much less active than usual. Spend some time
with him to investigate possible causes... read more
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Help from Get Mom Moving
The challenges that seniors face staying active prompted Home Instead
Senior Care to develop the Get Mom Moving program, with a variety of
resources to help keep seniors engaged and fit. These offer information
and activities in three categories — Mind, Body and Soul. All of the
activities are easy for seniors of varying abilities to participate in,
ranging from doing routine tasks in a new way, to planting an indoor
garden, to using common clothing items to help improve balance and
movement. Why not encourage your senior loved ones to try some of the
Get Mom Moving activities? They're available on the Get Mom Moving Web
site as a downloadable activities booklet, or you can request a set of
Activity Cards from your local Home Instead Senior Care office.
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Meet one senior who fights frailty with support, attitude and grit.
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The Canadian Caregiver Coalition is the national voice for the needs and
interests of family caregivers. They are a bilingual, not-for-profit
organization made up of caregivers, caregiver support groups, national
stakeholder organizations and researchers.
The Alzheimer's Foundation for Caregiving in Canada Inc. (AFCC) is a
sister organization to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, offering
education and advocacy support to improve quality of life for
individuals with Alzheimer's, and to their families and caregivers.
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CARP, Canada's largest association for the 45+ is offering its members a
special discount on all services provided by Home Instead Senior Care,
as well as a complimentary in-home care consultation and a no-cost home
safety check.
50plus.com along with its affiliate web site, www.carp.ca, is the
leading Canadian Internet portal for Zoomers — the 14.5 million
Canadians who are 45+.
The AARP Fat 2 Fit Online Community is a free online community that
helps individuals get fit and lose weight by providing inspiration,
information and support. Participants have fun, make friends and win
prizes as they work toward achieving their fitness goals. Carole Carson
serves as coach; all ages welcome, and membership in AARP is not
required.
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From: Home Instead Care
News Release
Seniors fear that lack of activity may threaten
their health and independence
Study shows that seniors most concerned about losing their ability to
get around
SUDBURY, JANUARY 25, 2010 – Losing the ability to get around is a big
concern for seniors, and also a big concern of the adult children who
care for them. This is according to a national survey of seniors and
adult children commissioned by Home Instead Senior Care, a seniors’ care
provider with 26 locations across Canada. Lack of activity can lead to a
downward spiral of poor health resulting in frailty, which is a
condition that threatens the mind, body and social life of older adults,
according to senior-care experts.
“We see many seniors who are trapped in their homes because they are too
weak to perform the activities they must do to remain safe and
independent,” said Lisette Wirta of Home Instead Senior Care in Sudbury.
“That’s why staying active is a prerequisite for healthy aging, but
addressing these issues can be a challenge for many families.”
The national Home Instead Senior Care survey of Canadian seniors aged 65
and older found that the two top challenges seniors face are:
maintaining their independence (66 percent rated this no. 1) and staying
physically active (65 percent rated this no. 1). Other challenges such
as managing finances, eating a healthy diet, and keeping socially
engaged, while all important, were further down the list.
The problem of inactive seniors has prompted Home Instead Senior Care to
develop a public awareness program designed to help keep seniors engaged
and fit, and to fight frailty arising from inactivity. The program
includes Get Mom Moving activity cards and the website
www.getmommoving.com.
The research showed that being active also correlates to a ‘happiness’
factor for both seniors and caregivers. In the survey, 93 percent of the
seniors surveyed said their biggest source of happiness is being able to
get around as they choose, and 89 percent said it stems from remaining
active. The survey was conducted online with 358 seniors aged 65 and
over, and with 407 adult caregivers aged 35-62, along with a telephone
survey among current Home Instead Senior Care clients and care
recipients.
Adult caregivers who took part in the survey were asked about the
biggest challenges facing the seniors they look after: 79 percent said
the biggest challenge was helping them maintain their independence, and
71 percent said it was helping them stay physically active. When asked
what made their seniors happy, 92 percent of the adult caregivers said
it was being able to get out and around as they choose. This was tied
with maintaining good health and spending time with family, and ranked
ahead of financial security, living independently, and spending time
with friends.
The survey also asked seniors for advice they might give themselves if
they were 20 years younger. Frequent comments had to do with getting
more exercise and staying active, and not waiting until retirement to do
these things.
“Physical activity helps prevent mental decline,” says Dr. Ian Cohen, an
Associate Professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Physical
Education and Health. Dr. Cohen is physician to the U of T’s men’s
football and hockey teams, former physician for the Canadian Football
League Toronto Argonauts, and is associated with the Toronto Memory
Program, an independent medical facility specializing in diagnosis and
treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
Says Dr. Cohen: “The benefits of physical activity in older adults are
extensive and small gains can have a major impact on their quality of
life. Regular exercise has been shown to decrease anxiety and
depression, which are both common to this population. Naturally
occurring decline in muscle mass can begin in the early to mid-50s, but
with seniors, strength programs can slow the rate of decline and even
add muscle mass. In patients with osteoarthritis of the hip and knee,
combined strength and flexibility programs have resulted in
significantly decreased pain, increased walking distance, and improved
quality-of-life scores.”
The Alzheimer Society of Canada has just released its own study called
Rising Tide: The Impact of Dementia in Canada. Recognizing the urgent
need to start turning the tide of dementia, it described four potential
intervention scenarios, one of which involves increasing physical
activity.
Canadian data published in 2001 in the Archives of Neurology (Laurin et
al, Physical Activity and Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in
Elderly Persons. Arch Neurol. 2001;58:498-504) showed that, in a
population of adults aged 65 and over, followed over six years, physical
activity was associated with lower risks of cognitive impairment,
Alzheimer disease, and dementia when compared to a population with no
exercise.
Erin Billowits, owner of Vintage Fitness, is dedicated to energizing the
lives of the 50-and-up group with physical activity, and does workshops
for Home Instead Senior Care. The older adults she works with have such
ailments as osteoarthritis, Parkinson’s, and other mobility challenges.
Billowits says less than ten per cent of Canadian seniors do any type of
strength training – even with very light weights – and that such
activity provides the greatest benefit.
“For many older adults, being active is the difference between living
independently and living in a long-term care facility,” she says. “When
working with older adults, we stress that they have an emotional goal
and a physical goal. For example, one woman didn’t have enough
flexibility to paint her own toenails and another was fearful about not
being able to get up off the floor after a fall, so this becomes the
goal.”
There is an increasing body of research on the benefits of exercise as
we age. A 1999 study at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina looked
at 156 older adults diagnosed with major depression, and found that
those who exercised showed significant improvement over those who took
anti-depression medication alone.
In Canada, Home Instead Senior Care has 26 independently owned locations
in seven provinces. In addition to Sudbury, there are 15 in Ontario –
nine in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as in Ottawa, Peterborough,
London, Waterloo, Windsor and Kingston. Five are in B.C. – Kelowna, Port
Coquitlam, Vancouver, Victoria and White Rock. There are also locations
in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Halifax, and Charlottetown. Services
include companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, light
housekeeping, and escorts for errands and shopping. Home Instead Senior
Care services are available at home or in care facilities from a few
hours per week up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Home Instead Senior Care is the world’s largest provider of non-medical
home care and companionship services for seniors with more than 850
independently-owned-and-operated locations in Canada, the U.S., Japan,
Portugal, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the U. K., Spain, South
Korea, Austria, Finland, Switzerland, Puerto Rico and Taiwan. For more
information about the company and its owners visit
www.homeinstead.com .
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Mary Ann Freedman
Freedman & Associates Inc. for Home Instead Senior Care
Tel: 1-866-453-6824
Email:
mafreedman@freedmanandassociates.com
Look and See, Signs of Frailty
In a women’s study released last summer, researchers at Columbia and
Johns Hopkins Universities discovered the important role activity plays
in the fight against frailty and shed new light on what causes the
condition.
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, and scientists found that frailty is the result
of a systems failure in older adults, rather than a specific problem,
disease or even chronological age. Data from women ages 70-79 led
researchers to discover that half of those frail had three or more
systems at abnormal levels, compared with 25 percent of the pre-frail
and 16 percent of the non-frail population. Among the physiological
factors that were assessed included anemia, inflammation and fine motor
skills.
Solutions to address frailty including medications and hormone
replacement are unlikely to prevent frailty unless they are designed to
improve multiple systems, Dr. Fried noted. “This may explain the
importance of approaches such as remaining physically active as we get
older, since activity improves many aspects of biology and overall
health.”
So how do family caregivers know what to look for? Following, from
Stephanie Studenski, M.D., M.P.H., University of Pittsburgh geriatrician
and researcher, and Home Instead Senior Care, are the signs that a
senior might be becoming frail:
Change. If a senior has always been interested in talking to the
neighbors, reading the newspaper or volunteering and is withdrawing from
those interests, suggest your loved one see a doctor.
Inactivity. If your senior suddenly becomes less active, investigate
what could be the cause.
Slowing down. If grandpa always used to have a bounce in his step and
now, suddenly, trudges along, that’s a bad sign.
Loss of appetite and weight. A senior who always had a healthy appetite
and doesn’t any more should be of concern to their loved ones.
Unsteadiness. Loss of balance comes with aging but an increasing
unsteadiness is a sign that something could be wrong.
To find out how you can help keep a senior active, contact Home Instead
Senior Care for a free Get Mom Moving Activity Calendar: “Activities for
the Mind Body and Soul.”
Senior Fear Factors . . . . .
Many of the fears that seniors experience relate to the biggest
challenge they say they face: staying active. According to a recent
survey conducted for Home Instead Senior Care, seniors have these fears
about the future, beginning with the greatest fear and in descending
order:
Loss of independence.
Declining health.
Running out of money.
Not being able to live at home.
Death of a spouse or other family member.
Inability to manage their own activities of daily living.
Not being able to drive.
Isolation or loneliness.
Strangers caring for them.
Fear of falling or hurting themselves.
For more information about how to help seniors at home, contact Home
Instead Senior Care Sudbury.
Lisette Wirta lisette.wirta@homeinstead.com
Be a Santa to a Senior
program delivers gifts to seniors in Sudbury
Home Instead Senior Care’s annual Be a Santa to a Senior program
provides holiday gifts for isolated and needy seniors. It is the first
year it is being launched in Sudbury. The Be a Santa to a Senior program
encourages holiday shoppers to pick up an ornament at a participating
local retailer, buy items on the senior's wish list and return gifts
unwrapped to the store with the ornament attached.
On Thursday December 17 at 10:00 am, Lisette Wirta of Home Instead
Senior Care, together with her staff and community volunteers will wrap
the donated gifts at a Wrapping Party held at The ParkSide Centre
located at 140 Durham Street. Mayor John Rodriguez will also be
attending to help wrap gifts. This year Be a Santa to a Senior expects
to collect and distribute more than 75 gifts in Sudbury.
Home Instead Senior Care provides non-medical care and companionship
services for seniors from 15 locations in Ontario. For more information
about the Be a Santa to a Senior program, visit
www.beasantatoasenior.com.
Home Instead Senior
Care
kicks off Be a Santa to a Senior campaign
Gifts will be delivered to seniors during holiday season
SUDBURY, DECEMBER 1, 2009 – Home Instead Senior Care has launched its
first Be a Santa to a Senior campaign in Sudbury. The organization,
which provides home care and companionship for seniors, expects to
collect and distribute 75 gifts to local seniors, according to Lisette
Wirta of Home Instead Senior Care.
Home Instead Senior Care has 15 locations in Ontario and 25 across
Canada. It makes Be a Santa to a Senior a reality by partnering with
local retailers, non-profit agencies, and volunteers from the community.
This year retailers such as Hart Store, The ParkSide Centre and Zellers
are taking part in the program along with other organizations such as
the Big Brother and Big Sister Association.
According to Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey of 2003 (from
2001) almost two-thirds of seniors aged 85 and over (65.3 percent) were
either living alone or in an institution. As well, one-third of seniors
aged 75-84 (33 percent) were living alone. As the population has
continued to age, it is expected that these figures have increased.
According to the 2006 census, more than 1.1 million Canadian seniors
aged 65 and up were living alone, and 28 per cent of all seniors in
private households were living alone. Lisette Wirta, who runs Home
Instead Senior Care in Sudbury, said there is no shortage of seniors who
would benefit from Be a Santa to a Senior.
“At holiday time, there are many seniors with no families and many whose
families are far away,” Wirta said. “And when it comes to gifts, we
naturally tend to think of kids, but this program means a lot to
thousands of seniors. That’s why it is so successful. The seniors who
receive these gifts are an important part of the community, and we think
it’s great that retailers, offices, and volunteers from the community
have stepped up like this to support the program.”
Be a Santa to a Senior is also run every year by many Home Instead
Senior Care offices around the world. Over the past five years, more
than one million gifts have been presented to some 700,000 seniors in
the program. Here is how to get involved:
1. Visit the website
www.beasantatoasenior.ca. Enter your postal code to find the
location of a participating store.
2. Remove an ornament, which has a gift idea printed on the back, from
the Christmas tree in the store.
3. Purchase a gift.
4. Give both the gift and ornament to a store employee.
On December 17th from 10am to 4pm, Home Instead Senior Care will be
hosting a gift-wrapping party involving volunteers from the community
and their own staff who will prepare gifts for delivery to seniors. Be a
Santa to a Senior is made possible with the help of local retailers,
non-profit agencies, and a host of volunteers.
In Canada, Home Instead Senior Care has 25 independently owned locations
in seven provinces. In addition to Sudbury there are 14 in Ontario –
nine of them in the Greater Toronto Area – and five in B. C. – Kelowna,
Port Coquitlam, Vancouver, Victoria and White Rock. There are also
locations in Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Halifax and Charlottetown.
Services include companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders,
light housekeeping, and escorts for appointments and shopping. Home
Instead Senior Care services are available at home or in care facilities
from a few hours per week up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Services are available in English and French in Sudbury.
Home Instead Senior Care prepares its caregivers to look for signs of
abuse in the elderly and provides caregiver training that is unmatched
in the industry. Recently, Home Instead Senior Care received the Best
Employer Award for 50-Plus Canadians from The Workplace Institute. Home
Instead Senior Care also offers an Alzheimer’s training program to its
caregivers; this training program is the first of its kind for
non-medical caregivers.
Home Instead Senior Care is the world’s largest provider of non-medical
home care and companionship services for seniors with more than 850
independently-owned-and-operated locations in Canada, the U.S., Japan,
Portugal, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K., Spain, South Korea,
Austria, Finland and Taiwan. For more information about the company and
its owners visit
www.homeinstead.com.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Mary Ann Freedman
Freedman & Associates Inc. for Home Instead Senior Care
Toll Free: 1-866-453-6824
Email:
mafreedman@freedmanandassociates.com
St Joseph center of
Sudbury( Villa St- Gabriel)
Home Instead Senior
Care opens in Sudbury
SUDBURY, OCTOBER 22, 2009 – Home Instead Senior Care, the world’s
leading non-medical, home-care service for seniors, has opened in
Sudbury. The office opened on August 17th at 1984 Regent Street, Suite
124, and will serve Sudbury as well as Elliot Lake.
Home Instead Senior Care Services include companionship, meal
preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping, and incidental
transportation for appointments and errands. The services, which are
available at home and also in care facilities, can range from a few
hours per week up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Sudbury
office is the 26th in Canada, and the first to serve this part of
Ontario.
Operator Lisette Wirta, who has lived in Sudbury for 35 years, got into
the business because of a personal experience. Two years ago, her
husband was in a snowmobile accident that left him with severe injuries
to his arm and leg. Wirta was floundering around looking for a care
provider, and quit a management job to become her husband’s full-time
caregiver.
“The despair that one feels when something like this happens is unreal,”
she says. “I was looking for a caregiver and our insurance company
couldn’t recommend anyone. They said to put an ad in the newspaper.
There was no other option so I did it myself, but I got a good
understanding of how it feels to need help and not be able to find it.
It made me understand what it must be like when a senior is in crisis
and the family suddenly needs help.”
Wirta studied Human Resources, and has a diploma in accounting and
business administration. Before her husband’s accident, she was an
executive with a company that ran a string of fast-food franchises
throughout several Ontario communities, including Sudbury. She was
responsible for 450 employees, but all that went out the window with the
snowmobile accident.
The experience left an indelible impression on her. When she was able to
return to work, she wanted to do something that involved helping people.
She chose Home Instead Senior Care.
“Never in my life have I worked for an organization that helps you the
way they do,” she says. “They are very professional and friendly, and it
was clear from the outset that they are looking for people who are
passionate about providing care for seniors.”
Later this fall, Home Instead Senior Care offices will embark on their
annual Be a Santa to a Senior campaign. This is a community program that
collects and distributes gifts to needy and isolated seniors during the
holiday season. Wirta plans to run a campaign in Sudbury, and will be
assisted by her daughter. Her daughter recently entered a local radio
contest that had asked listeners to write in about doing good deeds. She
wrote about Be a Santa to a Senior and obviously made an impression
because she won.
About Home Instead Senior Care
In Canada, Home Instead Senior Care has 26 independently owned locations
in seven provinces. In addition to Sudbury, there are 14 in Ontario –
nine of them in the Greater Toronto Area – and five in B.C. – Kelowna,
Port Coquitlam, Vancouver, Victoria and White Rock. There are also
locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Halifax and
Charlottetown. Services include companionship, meal preparation,
medication reminders, light housekeeping, and escorts for appointments
and shopping. Home Instead Senior Care services are available at home or
in care facilities from a few hours per week up to 24 hours a day, seven
days a week.
Home Instead Senior Care prepares its caregivers to look for signs of
abuse in the elderly and provides caregiver training that is unmatched
in the industry. Recently, Home Instead Senior Care received the Best
Employer Award for 50-Plus Canadians from The Workplace Institute. Home
Instead Senior Care also offers an Alzheimer’s training program to its
caregivers; this training program is the first of its kind for
non-medical caregivers.
Home Instead Senior Care is the world’s largest provider of non-medical
home care and companionship services for seniors with more than 800
independently-owned-and-operated locations in Canada, the U.S., Japan,
Portugal, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K., Spain, South Korea,
Austria, Finland and Taiwan. For more information about the company and
its owners visit
www.homeinstead.com.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Mary Ann Freedman
Freedman & Associates Inc. for Home Instead Senior Care
Tel: 1-866-453-6824
Email:
mafreedman@freedmanandassociates.com
Be a Santa For
Seniors Part 1
Be a
Santa for Seniors(PDF)Part2
Home
instead Senior Care(PDF)
Connecting You with Care(PDF)
Notes from Thursday, April 2 Community Forum re: support services for
seniors
WHO: Seniors and Family Members in Walden and Area
Communities
WHAT: Community Forum – Support Services for Seniors
WHERE: Tom Davies Community Arena (Walden)
WHEN: Thursday April 2nd 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
As you may be aware, the Walden Home Support Program was recently
disbanded and is no longer in operation. The North East Local Health
Integration Network (NELHIN) would like to reinstate the program in the
near future and continue the provision of valuable support services
which enable seniors to live in their home settings.
Before this program can be relaunched – the NELHIN needs to know the
specific needs and priorities of seniors so that it can allocate funding
and resources accordingly. In this regard, a community forum has been
scheduled for Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at the Walden Arena
to hear directly from seniors about the types of community support
services which would best meet their current needs.
This is your opportunity to have input in the design of the new
community support services program for seniors in Walden & Area and it
is hoped that all interested seniors, family members and community
representatives will attend. Dave Paquette of Summit Consulting has been
hired to facilitate the forum and prepare a summary of the feedback
collected.
Please share this information with other interested individuals and we
look forward to seeing you on April 2nd.
Canadian Red
Cross, Sudbury Branch
Home Maintenance Program
The Sudbury Home Maintenance program of the Canadian Red Cross assists
seniors to be independent by providing dependable, low-cost, home
cleaning, snow plowing, and lawn care services within the City of
Greater Sudbury.
This program is made possible through funding from the Ministry of
Health and a user fee that is charged to the client to partially offset
the cost of providing the program.
Services are provided by Canadian Red Cross, Sudbury Branch Home Help
Worker, Seasonal Employees, and subcontractors. Normal hours of
operation are 8:30am – 4:30pm, Monday to Friday.
Criteria:
• Individuals who are 60 yrs old or over.
• Individuals who are unable to complete their independent activities of
daily living, or unable to do so safely.
• Individuals must require some assistance with independent activities
of daily living services to remain in their own home.
Home maintenance services must be obtained through Community Care Access
Center (CCAC) referrals.
Fees for Service:
• Home cleaning - $7.50 per hour.
• Grass cutting - $7.50 per hour.
• Snow Removal - $15.00 per plow.
Program Coordinator: Stephanie Bell
Contact info:
stephanie.bell@redcross.ca
705-674-0737 ext. 214
Canadian Red Cross, Sudbury Branch
Seniors Transportation Program
The Sudbury Transportation program of the Canadian Red Cross assists
seniors to be independent by providing dependable, low-cost,
door-to-door transportation within the City of Greater Sudbury.
This program is made possible through funding from the Ministry of
Health and Long Term Care, United Way, local fundraising projects and a
user fee that is charged to the client to partially offset the cost of
providing the program.
Services are provided by Volunteer Drivers using their own vehicles or
the Aging at Home / Red Cross van. Normal hours of operation are 8:30am
– 5:00pm, Monday to Friday. Transportation service may be extended
beyond these hours and on weekends depending on the nature of the
request and availability of drivers. Office hours are 8:30am – 4:30pm.
Criteria:
• Individuals who are 60 yrs old or over. – Exceptions have been made
for individuals requiring dialysis who are 55 yrs old.
• Individuals who are not living in a Long Term Care Facility
• Individuals must be able to transfer in and out of a vehicle
independently or may bring an escort to assist with their needs
• Individuals who are unable to access existing transportation options
(transit) and are not currently driving
Program Coordinator: Nancy Leblanc
Contact info: Nancy.Leblanc@redcross.ca
705-674-0737 ext. 213
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