Service Information
Assisted Living Program
Carebridge Community Support
Category: Personal Support Services
Target Population: Physically Disabled
Service Details
Description:

Community-based health care service that provides eligible seniors with the personal support services needed to allow them to continue living on their own (or with an informal caregiver) for as long as possible. The services are delivered when they are needed – anytime, day, evening or overnight. Assisted Living services focus on activities of daily living that the person can no longer do or finds challenging to do on their such as personal care, meal prep, medications assistance/reminders, homemaking, safety/reassurance checks (over phone or in-person), social connection, escorted walks and 24-hour urgent response.


Languages: English
Cost to Client:
$9.00 per hour (1-3 hours maximum per week)
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria:
  • Client is a frail, older individual with chronic conditions, 65 years of age or older.
  • Client lives in their own private home or within a residential setting such as an apartment building but cannot live safely with current formal and/or informal supports.
  • Client demonstrates a need for daily access to personal support services throughout a 24-hour period (may or may not require homemaking services).
  • Client is able to communicate their needs (with or without aids) and is able to direct their own care or have a substitute decision-maker or a live-in caregiver to direct care.
  • Client is medically stable (medical and professional needs can be met by Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), family physician or other community providers).
  • Client poses no risk to themselves or others.
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