HOME CARE SERVICES WE OFFER

Home Making Services

• routine housework including: general cleaning, vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, laundry, ironing, changing beds, defrosting refrigerators/freezers, & cleaning cupboards
• planning, cooking, and serving meals
• preparing and/or delivering meals to shut-ins
• baking for holidays and special occasions
• monitoring and motivating regular diet plans
• transporting clients to social activities and appointments
• running errands and shopping for clients or transporting clients to carry out these activities
• assisting with mail, correspondence, and payment of bills
• acting as companions and participating in friendly socialization activities
• assisting with entertainment preparations, hosting, serving and/or cleanup
• packing household goods when changing residences
• caring for children
• supervising parent/child visits
• caring for pets including feeding, exercising, cleaning litter boxes, cleaning birdcages, taking to grooming appointments or to the vet
• caring for plants
• organizing cupboards, closets, and pantries
• doing light mending
• preparing grocery lists
• clipping coupons for shopping
• planning visits and outings
• arranging appointments
• arranging photos/scrapbooks
• participating in crafts, cards, games
• reading to client
• making library visits
• reminding of birthdays/anniversaries etc.
• preserving fruits and vegetables
• scheduling minor home repairs and maintenance
• emptying wastebaskets
• taking out trash
• maintaining logs of activities
• home delivered meals

Companionship Services

• companionship
• conversation
• medication reminding
• socialization
• supervision
• light housekeeping duties
• reading to client
• participating in crafts, cards, games

Heavy Cleaning

• spring cleaning
• washing walls
• washing outdoor windows
• cleaning light fixtures
• cleaning stoves and ovens

Personal Care

• assisting with grooming needs such as hair care, shaving (with electric razor), cleaning teeth and routine nail care
• supervising or assisting with tub baths, showers, sponge baths, and bed baths
• providing routine skin care such as applying lotion to dry skin
• assisting with dressing and undressing
• assisting with mobilization activities including turning, transferring, exercising, and walking
• assisting with toilet and/or commode needs
• assisting with eating or feeding
• assisting with self-administered medications by reminding client to take them at the prescribed time(s) and/or monitoring to ensure they are taken
• monitoring vital signs such as blood pressures, temperature, pulse and respiration

Safety and Welfare

• monitoring clients’ safety, comfort and welfare by contacting them by phone or by making home visit(s)
• checking interior conditions of homes while residents are away and ensuring the exteriors reflect an “at-home” appearance
• checking client safety in home environment
• reporting client concerns to appropriate person(s)
• keeping family informed of care activities

Hairdressing/Barbering

• cuts, sets, perms, tapers, coloring
• mustache trimming

Outdoor Tasks

• full season lawn and garden maintenance activities which include cutting lawns, edging, weeding, pruning, raking leaves, gardening, fertilizing, etc.
• shoveling snow
• splitting and stacking firewood
• yard cleanup

Handyman Services

• doing odd jobs and minor home repairs
• fixing minor plumbing problems
• installing handrails and bath/shower grab-bars
• painting
• applying wallpaper
• undertaking more extensive projects such as:
  • home adaptations
  • renovations
  • rough and finishing carpentry
  • installation of cupboards and countertops
  • laying flooring
  • making homes wheelchair compatible by lowering cupboards, and widening doors building access ramps