Ten kinds of help, one familiar face.
Most agencies list similar services. The difference is who turns up, how often it is the same person, and whether anybody tells you what it costs.
Care usually starts with one or two of these and grows. You are not committing to a category: the plan gets written around your parent’s week, and it changes when their week changes.
Personal care
Bathing, showering, dressing, toileting, continence support, transfers, skin care and medication reminders.
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Dementia and memory care
Personal care and supervision from caregivers trained in dementia, with routines built to stay the same.
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Companionship
Conversation, cards, walks, church, the grocery run, and driving to appointments and sitting in on them.
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Home help and meals
Light housekeeping, laundry, bed changes, groceries, and real cooked food rather than reheated trays.
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Nursing
LPNs and RNs in the home: medication administration, injections, wound and ostomy care, catheters and diabetic support.
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Hospital to home
Cover for the first days after discharge, when readmissions happen.
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Respite care
Hours, days or a fortnight, so the person doing the caring can stop.
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24-hour and live-in care
Overnight sleeping or awake cover, rotating 24-hour teams, or a live-in caregiver.
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Palliative care
Comfort, personal care and presence at home, alongside the Edmonton Zone palliative team.
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Condition-specific care
Parkinson’s, stroke recovery, MS, ALS, COPD, heart failure, cancer treatment, and frailty after a fall.
Learn moreEdmonton and the towns around it
Edmonton proper, Sherwood Park and Strathcona County, St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Leduc, Beaumont, Fort Saskatchewan and Devon.
If you are just outside that, call anyway. Whether we can staff it reliably depends on the caregivers we have near you, and we would rather tell you no than take the work and send a different person every week.
Not sure which of these you need?
Most people are not. Describe what is happening and a care manager will tell you what they would do, including if the answer is that you do not need us yet.