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Community Support Services
Meals on Wheels
Provided at home
Delivers a nutritionally balanced noon hour hot meal by volunteers who provide a social contact and a safety check for the client. Special diets may be accommodated. Frozen meals may be available.
Group Dining
Serves nutritionally balanced lunches, or dinners, in a social group environment.
Home Maintenance & Repair
Provided at home
Matches eligible clients with individuals or businesses that provide affordable repairs and maintenance to a senior's home.
Housekeeping
Provided at home
Offers assistance with routine household activities such as light house cleaning, laundry, ironing, and preparing meals.
Friendly Visiting
Provided at home
Offers no charge visiting companionship such as conversation, reading, games, or crafts, while providing a safety check. The contact may be face-to-face at the client's home or through a phone call.
Adult Day Programs Provides a daytime group environment of supervised activities, meals, companionship and recreation for older adults and those with chronic or palliative conditions. Select a Category
Alzheimer/Dementia
Provides a daytime group environment of supervised activities, meals, companionship and recreation for older adults and those with chronic or palliative conditions.
Acquired Brain Injury
Provides a daytime group environment of supervised activities, meals, companionship and recreation for older adults and those with chronic or palliative conditions.
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Provides a daytime group environment of supervised activities, meals, companionship and recreation for older adults and those with chronic or palliative conditions.
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Rides & Transportation
Provided at home
Provides door-to-door rides for seniors or adults who have a disability to attend medical and therapeutic appointments, social activities and perform other daily tasks such as shopping trips.
Overnight Stay Respite
Provides planned overnight support in a supervised, secure environment to give short-term respite to caregivers.
Palliative Care Select a Category
Friendly Visiting
Provided at home
Offers no charge visiting companionship such as conversation, reading, games, or crafts, while providing a safety check. The contact may be face-to-face at the client's home or through a phone call.
Individual/ Family Counselling
Guidance or advice aimed at better managing a challenging situation or to resolve personal problems. Includes mental health and addictions counselling.
Support Group
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
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Foot Care Select a Category
Foot Care Clinic
Provides nursing foot care and advice for clients to address common foot problems such as thickened and fungal nails, corns, calluses, bunions.
Foot Care (In-Home)
Provided at home
Provides in-home nursing foot care and advice for clients to address common foot problems such as thickened and fungal nails, corns, calluses, bunions.
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Prevention
Health Education Classes Select a Category
Arthritis
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
Cardiovascular Disease
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
Chronic Pain
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
Craving Change
A class designed to help people change their eating habits by changing their thinking habits
Diabetes
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
Hypertension
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
Osteoporosis
Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
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Provides education to participants to make choices that may improve wellness or reduce risks of disease. May focus on specific diseases or specific lifestyle issues (e.g. healthy eating).
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Support Groups Select a Category
Arthritis
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Cardiovascular Disease
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Chronic Pain
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Diabetes
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Hypertension
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Osteoporosis
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
Weight Management
In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
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In-person meetings where members provide each other with help for a particular life challenge. Often involves relating personal experiences and providing sympathetic understanding. May be clinician or volunteer-led.
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Gentle Exercise Select a Category
Classes
Provides group exercise classes, typically one hour in length, to improve strength and balance. Education provided to reduce risk of falls.
In home exercise
Provided at home
Provides exercise to improve cardio respiratory levels, muscular strength and balance. Available in the client's home.
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Supervised Exercise Rehab.
Exercise programs delivered with the support of certified professionals. Programs include a mix of education and exercise. May be focused on specific chronic disease. Often done in community, post rehabilitation.
Fitness Classes
Exercise sessions where participants develop physical fitness and/or skills within a defined sport. May be either beginners or advanced.
Clinical Management
Diagnostics Select a Category
Angiography
A medical imaging modality used for the visualization of the inside or lumen of blood vessels, particularly the arteries, veins and the heart chambers. Commonly used to diagnose obstructive vascular disease and aneurisms.
Bone Mineral Densitometry
A medical imaging technique used to check the level of calcium in bones. Often used for diagnosing osteoporosis and predicting risk of fractures.
Cardiorespiratory Diagnostics
Diagnostic intervention to determine the condition of patient's heart and lungs. Includes lung function, exercise tolerance, echocardiogram, and Holter monitor test.
Computed Tomography
An imaging modality that utilizes x-ray photons for image production, with digital reconstruction. Commonly used for brain, abdomen, chest and pelvis.
Ultrasound
An imaging modality that utilizes high-frequency sound waves to provide cross-sectional images of the body. Commonly used for abdomin, pelvis, cardiovascular, and obstetric purposes.
X-Ray
Diagnostic imaging technique that uses electromagnetic radiation, especially X-rays, to view internal structure of human body.
Flouroscopy
An imaging modality that uses x-rays to allow real-time visualization of body structures. (e.g., Barium Studies)
Laboratory Services
Provides diagnostic tests to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease. Involves tests in areas such as Chemistry, Hematology, Bacteriology, Pathology and Serology among others.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Positron Emission Tomography
A medical imaging technique used to visualize detailed internal structures, providing real-time, three-dimensional views of body organs making visualization of brain, spine, muscles, and joints excellent.
Mammography
An imaging modality that uses low energy x-rays specifically for imaging of breast tissue.
Nuclear Medicine
An diagnostic imaging modality that involves injection or inhalation of radioactive tracers to visualize various organs. Commonly used in bone scans, scans of blood flow, and kidney function tests.
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Specialists and Surgeons Select a Category
Audiologist
Clinicians who specialize in prevention, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of hearing and balance difficulties.
Cardiologist
Physicians who specialize in the structure and function and disorders of the heart.
Dental Surgeon
A dentist qualified to perform surgical procedures.
Gastroenterologist
Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treat of diseases of digestive organs, including stomach and intestine.
General Surgeon
A surgical subspecialty focusing on abdominal organs.
Geriatric Medicine Clinic
Provides geriatric medical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment by a team of health professionals who are experts in seniors' health. Typical concerns include falls prevention, medication management and cognitive decline.
Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic
Provides geriatric mental health assessment, diagnosis, counselling and treatment by a team who are experts in seniors' mental health.Typical concerns include confusion, anxiety, depression and psychosis.
Obstetrician-Gynecologist
A physician who specializes in medical and surgical care of women with particular expertise in pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive system disorders.
Oncologist
Physicians who specialize in treating people with cancer.
Orthopedic Surgeon
A surgeon who corrects congenital or functional abnormalities with surgery, casting and bracing. Also treat injury to bones.
Otolaryngologist (ENT)
Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the head and neck. (Particularly the ear, nose and throat.)
Pediatrician
Medical specialist dealing with the development, health, and diseases of children.
Pain Management Clinic
Medical and other treatment aimed at relieving long term pain, such as painkilling drugs; injections; hypnotherapy and acupuncture. Requires medical referral.
Respirologist
Physicians who specializes in the study and treatment of respiratory diseases.
Urologist
Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of problems of male and female urinary tracts and male reproductive organs.
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Therapy Services Select a Category
Occupational Therapy
Enabling a person with an impairment (e.g., developmental, functional etc) or other health conditions to access, maintain, or return to their occupation.
Physiotherapist
Use of physical methods, including manipulation and exercise therapy aimed at restoring movement and balance after injury, disease or surgery.
Speech-Language Therapy
Identification, evaluation, and treatment of acquired communication disorders such as difficulty understanding or producing speech and swallowing. (Includes aphasia)
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Chronic Conditions Select a Category
Arthritis
Asthma
Cardiovascular Disease
Chronic Pain
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Diabetes
Hypertension
Osteoporosis
Stroke
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Individual/ Family Counselling
Guidance or advice aimed at better managing a challenging situation or to resolve personal problems. Includes mental health and addictions counselling.
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Home at Last
Provided at home
Provides assistance when moving from a hospital stay back to home. May include assistance with transportation, home configuration, shopping and finding other services to help.
Intensive Geriatric Service Worker (IGSW)
Provided at home
Integrates health and social services by facilitating referrals and access to service across agencies. Supports care by providing follow-up after hospitalization or emergency room visits, or after specialist assessments.
Primary Care at Home Program
Provided at home
Provides assistance when moving from a hospital stay back to home. May include assistance with transportation, home configuration, shopping and finding other services to help.
Personal Support Services
Provided at home
Help with a range of essential daily activities that help maintain physical well-being. Includes washing and bathing, mouth and hair care. Help with transferring to chairs, dressing, eating, and toileting.
Supportive Housing
Provides support with personal care and activities of daily living in a 24 hour facility setting.
285 Erb Street West, Kitchener Ontario285 Erb Street West, Kitchener Ontario
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