- Long-term Care

- Long-term Care Facilities

- Home Care

- Attendant Services/Outreach

- Acquired Brain Injury Services

• Long-term Care involves almost 1,200 community-based agencies across the province and a variety of services, such as therapy, personal care, homemaking, meal programs, adult day programs, and social and recreational programs. Long-term care services:

1. lessen dependence on hospital-based care
2. promote independence
3. allow persons with disabilities and seniors to remain in their own homes.

• Long-term Care Facilities include nursing homes and homes for the aged to support people who cannot stay in their own homes and who need 24-hour nursing care.

• Home Care provides people with disabilities with professional services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech/language pathology, nutritional counseling, and palliative care.

• Home Care also provides homemaking services to people unable to perform daily household tasks because of a short or long-term disability.

• Attendant Services/Outreach promote independent living by helping someone with a permanent disability perform their daily household chores, such as homemaking, cleaning, cooking, laundry, toileting, personal hygiene and other services.

• Acquired Brain Injury Services offer community services to people with acquired brain injury, including day programs and respite for family caregivers.

• Long-term care services include personal support, behavioral therapy, cognitive retraining and psychosocial training. Services are delivered through home care and community living programs.

For more information about the services above, contact the Community Care Access Centre in your area