CARE GUIDE: Health Services
Health Services provide client-focused care for those in need of special assistance because of illness, disability or limitations due to aging. These services include the following:
Attendant Service
A service providing homemaking and personal support service to people over the age of 16 with permanent physical disabilities requiring assistance with daily living. Attendant services are based on the philosophy that an attendant is available at scheduled times to act as a physical extension of the physically disabled person. The attendant follows the client's directions and assists them in the activities of daily living. [Top]
Foot Care
Many older adults are unable to care for their own feet and are at an increased risk of infection as a result. A professional trained in foot care provides services including trimming toenails, monitoring the condition of feet and bathing and massaging feet. [Top]
Palliative Care
Palliative Care is the compassionate care of persons facing a life threatening or terminal illness, when treatment to prolong life has been discontinued and control of symptoms, both physical and emotional, are paramount. A specially trained Personal Support Worker often provides this service.[Top]
Personal Support Services
Personal Support Services includes personal hygiene activities and assistance with the routine activities of daily living. Services can include: mouth care, hair care, menstrual care, preventative skin care, changing of dressings, routine hand/foot care, toileting, bowel routine, dressing, transferring, exercising, escorting the client to medical appointments and tracheostomy care. [Top]
Supportive Housing
Supportive Housing provides personal support services and essential homemaking in permanent residential settings for frail or cognitively impaired older adults, people with physical disabilities or acquired brain injuries and those living with HIV/AIDS. Supportive Housing service is for people who wish to remain independent that need support services on a 24-hour basis due to required monitoring, services during the night and emergency response services. Those living in Supportive Housing arrangements receive individualized care, a choice of service options, continuing interaction and socialization with others and the opportunity to influence decisions about the housing and services they receive. [Top]
There are a number of care options available
from community agencies. Select one of the following for information
about these options: