Searching for Hospice / Palliative Care

Provides a variety of personal, medical, and dementia care services at home

Personal care services can include:

• Bathing and dressing
• Companionship and respite care
• Fall and risk assessment
• Foot care
• Light housekeeping and meal preparation
• Medication reminders
• Nursing

Medical services can include:

• End of life/Palliative care
• Nursing and Nurse Practitioner care
• Therapy and rehab services in the home or community
• Serious injury and wound care

Dementia and Alzheimer's Care

• Offers personalized care to meet the needs of individuals living with dementia or Alzheimer's
• Works in partnership with Personalized Dementia Solutions Inc

Provides a variety of home health care services

Integrated Care Solutions which offers a bundled care model and provides home care services to patients transitioning from hospital to home that can include:

• Case management
• Infusion pharmacy
• Medical equipment and supplies
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy and physiotherapy
• Personal support
• Respiratory therapy
• Speech and language therapy

Alternative Level of Care (ALC) Transitional Program which offers supports to patients who transition from a hospital to an interim short-stay facility and include:

• Supports during the intensive rehabilitation recovery process
• Collaboration with hospital, family and caregivers to prepare patient for moving back home

Government Funded Care Solutions for which Bayshore is a contracted health care provider for government-funded services for both bundled/integrated service delivery models and fee-for-service models, offering a range of services including:

• Falls Prevention
• Frail and Elderly Care
• Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
• Nursing
• Paediatric Services
• Palliative Care and Services
• Personal Support Services
• Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology
• Post Acute Community Infusions
• Wound Care

Provides the following services in homes, retirement homes and shared care settings:

• Assistance with daily activities such as laundry, meal preparation and light housekeeping
• Support with personal care including bathing, dressing and toileting
• Help with medications and exercising
• Respite care for family members and caregivers

Provides a variety of in-home health care services

Home Support

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Alzheimer's and dementia care
• Companion Aide
• Homemaking
• Palliative Care
• Personal Care

Respite

• Respite Care

Nursing

• Chronic disease management
• Foot care
• Palliative Care
• Post hospitalization care
• Post hospitalization intravenous care
• Wound Care
• Senior wellness checks

Offers a wide range of community health care services, including:

• Bereavement support services
• Caregiver support and education
• Home maintenance, including snow removal and grass cutting
• Palliative Care Education courses
• Hospice Volunteer Visiting

Adult Day Centre

• Operates six days/week
• Offers recreational and social activities, lunch and snacks
• Provides respite for caregivers

Delivers various home health care services including the following:

• Alzheimer and dementia care
• Assisted living care
• Bathing, oral hygiene
• Chronic care assistance for health conditions including Parkinson's, depression, mental illness, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease,stroke and cancer
• Companion visits
• Grocery shopping, personal shopping
• Home safety assessments at time of admissions
• Household help such as caring for new mothers and 24-hour live-in care
• Housekeeping and laundry
• Incontinence care
• Meal planning and preparation, assistance with eating
• Medication reminders
• Overnight stays
• Palliative and Hospice services
• Respite Care
• Transportation for errands, appointments or visiting family/friends

• Operates a 10-bed home-like facility, providing compassionate and holistic end of life care for individuals living with a terminal illness and support to their families
• Offers grief and bereavement support to families and loved ones

Services include:

• Comprehensive pain and symptom management
• Emotional, spiritual and social care
• Grief and bereavement support
• Professional palliative care nursing
• Wish fulfillment such as residents' favourite meals and creating special moments

• Provides hospice palliative care to people living with a terminal illness
• Offers visiting volunteer hospice services as well as hospice suite services

Support services can include:

• Music therapy
• Pet therapy
• Respite care
• Spiritual support

• Provides compassionate care to individuals who are chronically and terminally ill
• Seeks to improve quality of life by helping individuals control their pain and symptoms as well as meet their physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cultural needs

Sevices can include but are not limited to:

• Advance care planning
• End of life planning and support for family
• Grief and bereavement support
• Pain and symptom management
• Respite care

Provides services and support to elders with health care needs to enable them to stay at home as long as possible including the following services:

• Assesses and supports the client at home and out of hospital to prevent repeat admissions to the Emergency Department
• Facilitates timely discharge of clients from acute care hospitals
• Provides referrals to other health services such as short stay, rehabilitation, long term care or hospice for palliative care
• Delivers educational sessions to Personal Support Workers at all seven First Nations on Manitoulin Island
• Mentors Registered Nursing staff in palliative, pain, wound and capacity assessments, and placement issues as they provide care for elders
• Acts as a resource for family members who are caring for an elderly loved one
• Coordinates the Aging At Home Transportation services
• Offers the use of an electric bed with special mattress as well as positioning aids and mobility aids for palliative or bedridden clients
• Rents the use of a negative pressure vac unit which expedites healing of wounds

Hospice Palliative Care at Home

• care coordination and support to navigate health services
• advocacy for patients and families
• advanced care planning and end of life planning
• day program
• caregiver respite
• peer companionship
• in-home palliative physicians; palliative physican ambulatory clinic

Residential Care Program

• 24 hour end-of-life care in home-like setting, capacity 12, all private rooms
• collaboration with other community services
• counselling, emotional, spiritual and wellness support on site

Grief and Bereavement Care

• individualized professional grief counselling
• individualized peer grief companionship
• grief groups
• grief webinars
• community and professional education on grief

Hospice Palliative Helpline 905-667-1865 -- partners with Heart House Hospice and Acclaim Health of Oakville to provide 24 hour helpline, see separate listing

Charitable organization working to increase end-of-life care availability * works to increase inclusivity and cultural sensitivity in the end-of-life field * educational trainings * workshops

Programs include:

• Death Cafes (group discussions)
• Our Babies, Our Grief (healing groups and drop-ins)
• Compassionate Caregiving Program
• Experiential Day Hospice
• Hospice at Home
• Pre and Perinatal Hospice
• Helping Our Precious Pediatrics

Counselling, crisis intervention, and support programs, including anger management and conflict resolution, and counselling education and volunteer training

Telephone Counselling
Immediate emotional support, crisis intervention or suicide prevention

• links to appropriate emergency services
• individual, group and family counselling
• community outreach counselling and visitation for clients facing barriers to accessing services
• information and referral
• translation and interpretation
• counselling education and volunteer training program
• public education and awareness
• health promotion, including recreation and social activities

Telephone Crisis Intervention Services
24-hour emotional support for individuals experiencing distress, grief, conflict, depression or other crisis; also available virtually (Zoom) and by email

In-person Counselling Services
Anonymous, confidential counselling for individuals, groups, couples and families

Violence Prevention Education
Anger management and conflict resolution classes and workshops

Health Programs
Health promotion and support

• home hospice program and palliative care provided by trained volunteers
• healthy lifestyle workshops
• smoke-free education for youth
• diabetes prevention program
• visitation for community members who are ill

Children's Programs
Includes homework club, early learning programs for kindergarten to grade 6, and summer camp

Parenting Programs
Parenting skills workshops, including parent and child activities, early years development, and separate programs for mothers and fathers

Seniors Programs
Includes reassurance, counselling, visitation, and outreach services

• English café
• recreation including singing, art and digital storytelling classes
• online virtual seminars

Youth Programs
Employment seminars, career development, leadership training, life skills workshops, and mentoring

• 2-weeks summer volunteering retreat (August)
• tobacco-free campaign program
• facilitation skills workshop
• recreational activities including Expressive Arts workshops