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Provides affordable door to door transportation for seniors or those with a disability to help them with various activities such as grocery shopping, medical appointments and social outings

NOTE: Vehicles are not equipped to accommodate wheelchairs

Provides a variety of homecare services including:

• Companionship
• Personal care
• Alzheimer and dementia care
• Housekeeping support
• Hospice support
• Live in care
• Nursing care
• Non-medical home care
• Outpatient assistance
• Respite care
• Returning home post-discharge care
• Transportation

• Assists seniors with transportation to and from appointments
• Provides door-to-door transportation to medical or dental appointments, grocery shopping or for community or family events
• Accompanies individuals into their appointment if needed
• Grocery shopping and delivery
• Delivery of medications

Approved service provider for Veterans Affairs

Offers various services to seniors including the following:

Community Dining Program

• Offers one meal per week in their community
• Provides transportation if required, for social activity to clients who would not be able to attend without assistance

Emergency Response Systems

• Provides an electronic device in a client's home that enables clients to communicate in an emergency
• Provides a 24-hour service

Friendly Visiting

• Provides a check up call, personal or telephone contact to seniors living alone

Homemaking

• Assists with routine household activities such as light housekeeping, meal preparation and laundry

Meals on Wheels

• Delivers hot and frozen meals for lunch to individuals to assist in meeting their nutritional needs
• Provides social contact and a health and safety check of the client at the time of the meal delivery
• Provides one meal per week or up to 5 daily meals per week
• Accommodates special diets such as diabetic diet, food allergies and/or tolerances etc

Respite Service

• Provides in-home service to enable family and friends to have relief from their caregiving role and to help relieve stress placed on family relationships

Supportive Housing

• Provides designated housing for an average of 50 clients with the ability to expand as the need arises, and includes personal support, medications reminder, homemaking, meal preparation
• Provides 24-hour attendant service and emergency response service

Transportation

• Provides transportation to medical, dental, and vision appointments as well as to clinics and hospitals
• Volunteers assist individuals with entering and exiting the vehicle or building and with packages
• Recommends advance notice of 2 to 3 days for booking transportation

Provides transportation services to individuals who are 55 years of age or older and/or who have a physical or mental disability

• Operates as a community seniors' centre offering recreational activities, educational programs/workshops and various support services
• Sends a monthly activity/workshops calendar to community seniors
• Offers Centre rentals to community members for various activities

Coordinates the following support services:

• Friendly visiting
• Help Line
• Home maintenance and snow shovelling
• Transportation for shopping and errands

Diner's Club

• Provides hot meals at the Centre 3 days per week
• Offers a time of socialization for community seniors

Also coordinates:

• Meals on Wheels Program

Offers non-emergency transportation services for Manitoulin Island elders

• Provides door-to-door transportation for medical appointments, errands, banking and shopping, traditional gatherings and social/community events
• Assists with embarking and disembarking the van

Provides affordable door to door transportation for seniors or those with a disability to help them with various activities such as grocery shopping, medical appointments and social outings

NOTE: Vehicles are not equipped to accommodate wheelchairs

Provides health care services for ill, injured or elderly community members to allow them to remain in their own homes

Provides the following services:

• Assessment to determine individuals health history and develop a personalized care plan
• Case management to ensure that care plans are being carried out and that the plan developed is still suitable
• Home care through Personal Support workers
• Personal care help with activities such as dressing and bathing
• Basic foot care
• Teaching the individual in need to care for themselves
• Companionship
• Home support with light housekeeping, laundry and meal preparation
• Respite for family members and caregivers
• Help with light maintenance and outdoor/yard work at Elder's homes
• Non-emergency transportation for banking, shopping and other errands

Also coordinates the following programs:

• Adult Day Program
• Helpline
• Meals on Wheels

Wheelchair accessible van, and volunteer drivers utilizing their own vehicles, provide transportation for seniors and persons with cognitive and/or physical disabilities, who are unable to drive themselves and have no access to transportation. Transportation to medical appointments is the first priority, however seniors are also able to complete errands such as grocery shopping, banking etc.

Community Support Services may be able to facilitate other special circumstances. These decisions are made on a case-by-case basis. Call main office for further information.

All transportation is coordinated through the main office.

Subsidized by Ontario Health.
Managed by the Eastholme Board of Management.

Offers volunteer and private sector transportation for medical appointments, social activities and personal errands.

Will provide assistance as required by the client which may include:

• Confirmation calls to confirm appointment date, time and scheduling
• Escorted assistance to the appointment
• Check in at reception to confirm appointment time
• Assistance with shopping
• Transport of walkers and other mobility devices including wheelchairs
• A client travel companion is welcome (family, friend or caregiver)
• Other special services upon request

For medical appointments, will travel to Sudbury, North Bay, Barrie, Orillia, Toronto and other long distance locations.

All clients are required to schedule their trips in advance, two week advance notice preferred. No trip is guaranteed. Trips are booked on a first come, first served basis. A mileage compensation or trip fee applies to all transportation programs.

• Provides assistance to clients upon hospital discharge
• Partners with the Canadian Red Cross to offer services

Services can include any or all of the following:

• Travel with patient from the hospital/medical facility to home
• Prescription and medical supplies/equipment pick-up
• Grocery shopping
• In-home visual safety check
• Booking follow-up appointments/community support services
• Settling-in assistance such as light housekeeping, laundry, ordering Meals On Wheels etc

Non-essential transportation currently cancelled due to COVID-19 (until further notice)

Operates a door-to-door transit system for seniors, disabled and/or handicapped individuals

• Provides service for any trip purpose using a wheelchair accessible van
• Requires advance reservations and cancellations or additional fees may apply
• Transportation is offered within the local areas served and for out-of-town medical appointments

NOTE: Passengers requiring an assistant must provide their own but escort/companion can ride free of charge

Provides assistance to patients with the transition to home upon hospital discharge

Services can include any or all of the following:

• Travel with patient from the hospital/medical facility to home
• Prescription and medical supplies/equipment pick-up
• Providing a meal or snack
• In-home visual safety check
• Booking follow-up appointments/community support services
• Settling in at home assistance such as light housekeeping, laundry, and ordering Meals On Wheels

Support for older adults to helps them remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible.

Friendly Visiting:
Provides social contact with client to develop a caring relationship

Telephone Reassurance:
Maintains an ongoing telephone link for security and social contact

Frozen Meals On Wheels Program: Available for anyone
Individual entrees are $6.25 and an individual dessert or soup is $1.60. Free weekly delivery in Huntsville. Orders must be placed on Mon. Arrangements can be made to pick up meals at the office Mon-Fri by calling ahead. Special diets are available on request.

Hot Meals On Wheels Program: Available for anyone
Entrees are $6 including soup/salad, entree, roll/muffin and dessert. Delivery available to anyone living within 10 km of Huntsville Hospital. Delivery Mon-Fri 12 noon-1 pm.

Transportation Service:
Helps seniors with no means of transport to medical appointments, drugstore, shopping, etc. There is a $10 round trip charge within Huntsville, longer distances costs to be determined through office.

Medical Appointments - Out of Area:
Provides transportation for seniors 60 and over, living in North Muskoka, to medical appointments, hospital procedures, rehabilitation, and alternative therapies.

Free income tax preparation:
Free Income Tax preparation can be arranged with a volunteer for those who meet eligibility criteria. For more details please call office.

Activities include:

• recreation programs Mon-Thu
• diners club Tuesdays
• pot luck breakfast on Fridays
• town trips Mondays and Thursdays
• craft programs
• For Christian Island resident Seniors only

Additional services offered:

• meals on wheels
• transportation
• adult day services
• for Christian Island resident Seniors only

• Provides assistance to clients upon hospital discharge
• Partners with the Canadian Red Cross to offer services

Services can include any or all of the following:

• Travel with patient from the hospital/medical facility to home
• Prescription and medical supplies/equipment pick-up
• Grocery shopping
• In-home visual safety check
• Booking follow-up appointments/community support services
• Settling-in assistance such as light housekeeping, laundry, ordering Meals On Wheels etc

Non-essential transportation currently cancelled due to COVID-19 (until further notice)

Operates a door-to-door transit system for seniors, disabled and/or handicapped individuals

• Provides service for any trip purpose using a wheelchair accessible van
• Requires advance reservations and cancellations or additional fees may apply
• Transportation is offered within the local areas served and for out-of-town medical appointments

NOTE: Passengers requiring an assistant must provide their own but escort/companion can ride free of charge

Passenger services include motor-coaches, activity buses, mini-coaches, adult vans, school and wheelchair buses, limousines and classic vehicles, sedan and chauffeur services, as well as convention and meeting services and group tour planning

Offers:

• regular grocery shopping trips for in town seniors
• local bus service to grocery stores
• services to Algonquin Park, Kee to Bala, Casino Rama and Pearson airport

Wheelchair accessible buses are available to charter and to take individuals to appointments. Call for availability and bookings. 3 wheelchair buses, 12 wheelchair spaces, spaces for 30 ambulatory individuals. Lift for ambulatory individuals with wheelchairs or walker.

Accessible transportation for seniors, veterans using mobility aids and people with physical or mental disabilities

• vans can accommodate up to 3 wheelchairs or other mobility vehicles, such as scooters, and 3 walk-ons
• all wheelchair clients must be accompanied by caregiver
• transportation to and from appointments, school or work
• counselling, advocacy, social activities for clients

In-home care

• service in private homes, retirement residences, Long Term Care facilities, hospitals
• companions and Personal Support Workers (PSW)
• hourly, overnight and live-in care available
• housekeeping, meal preparation
• transportation and errands
• assistance with bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, transfers and feeding
• Alzheimer and dementia care, respite care
• foot care services
• palliative care

Community services, including:

Intake for the Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP):

• qualifications for reduction on electricity costs

Immigration services:

• establishment services
• counseling and assistance in immigration procedures
• application for various visas, for permanent residency, work permit, citizenship, sponsorship, etc.

Commissioners for Oaths available to validate

• oaths
• affirmations
• affidavits

Legal services:

• information and advice on immigrant and refugee rights
• guidance on judicial procedures
• defense of rights on various issues

Medical services:

• in-home doctor visits
• nursing and medical services at home

Social services:

• daycare services
• job search assistance
• job placement and internship
• support for creating and starting a business
• support for training and studies
• counselling services
• rehabilitation and monitoring of probation for minors
• radicalization prevention
• housing support services
• social activities
• interpretation and document translation
• language instruction
• placement assistance for volunteering in Africa and Canada
• financial and administrative assistance for funerary services
• maintenance of a directory for professionals and business men in Canada

Services to seniors:

• home visits
• transportation and accompaniment
• physical activity
• meditation and relaxation sessions
• foot care
• social outings

Services for individuals with a disability:

• social housing management
• budget management
• employment support
• family support

Funerals

• financial and administrative support