Home Support and Companionship Services
The Independent Living Services Provided by Comfort Keepers®
Each Comfort Keepers client has unique care needs. That is why we offer a full range of in-home services—to tailor care plans that provide our senior and other adult clients the right amount and types of help to support independent living at home.
These services are provided by specialized caregivers to promote independent living to its fullest. Our services include:
Home Support and Companionship Care Services
Home Support and Companionship Care Services
Supervisory Companionship and Conversation
Comfort Keepers are available to provide clients and their families’ peace of mind by ongoing assessments and tracking of health and mental status. They provide consistency of routine and engage in conversation, or to sit down to share a meal together. Social contact such as this is proven to enhance the health, happiness and quality of life of seniors.
Meal Preparation
Comfort Keepers prepare hot, delicious, and nutritious meals, allowing clients to help with preparation according to their ability. Many seniors do not have the opportunity to eat a well-balanced meal, so this service helps seniors get the nutrition they need to enjoy healthier living.
Laundry
These services can be done in either the client’s home or the Laundromat and include washing, drying, ironing and putting things away. Comfort Keepers involve clients to make sure laundry is done according to their preferences.
Light Housekeeping
Comfort Keepers light housekeeping services include vacuuming, dusting, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms (sinks, tubs, showers, and toilets), cleaning kitchens (sinks, appliances, counters, taking out trash), straightening all rooms, organizing closets and drawers, and cleaning any interior windows that can be reached without a ladder. Comfort Keepers does not provide outdoor cleaning or maintenance.
Grocery Shopping/Errands
Comfort Keepers shop for groceries at stores of their clients’ preference and run errands, such as picking up prescriptions or going to the post office. Clients may choose to stay home or help with the shopping and errands as an excellent way to stay active and engaged. Comfort Keepers will use any coupons provided.
Incidental Transportation
Comfort Keepers provides transportation incidental to other care services, such as taking clients to medical appointments, barbershops, beauty salons, shopping, or wherever else a client wants to go. Getting seniors out and about is good for their mind, body and spirit—and an integral part of Comfort Keepers’ Interactive Caregiving™.
Medication Reminders
Although Comfort Keepers cannot administer medications, they can track and help ensure that clients take their own medication as prescribed. Comfort Keepers can assist with opening medication containers, reading labels and reminding the client when it is time to take a dose.
Grooming & Dressing Guidance
Comfort Keepers can assist clients do buttons, tying shoes, putting on socks, washing & combing hair and other grooming tasks that enable them to feel good about their appearance.
Organize Incoming Mail
We can assist the client in separating the junk mail from the important mail, and let them know when bills are due.
Personal Care Services
Provided by Personal Care workers, offers all of the above listed home support duties with the addition of personal care services.
Bathing and Hygiene
Comfort Keepers help clients look and feel their best. These services enhance clients’ mental as well as physical well-being, helping them feel positive about their appearance. Bathing not only cleanses the skin, but goes deeper to refresh the spirit, provide relaxation and stimulate circulation.
Mobility Assistance
Comfort Keepers assist clients as needed with mobility to help them maintain as active a lifestyle as possible. Being able to get out and about offers both physical and mental health benefits to seniors. Physical health benefits of activity include increased stamina and energy, a strengthened heart, lower blood pressure and improved digestion and sleep. In addition, activity improves mood, releases stress and increases mental alertness.
Therapy exercises and Treatment Information
Assists with range of motion exercises, and other rehabilitative measures. Provides prompting, supervises exercises and tracks results.
Transferring and Positioning
Comfort Keepers are trained to move and place clients in correct posture position to promote health and safety and proper functioning of the body's many systems. Proper transferring and positioning from or into beds and chairs eliminate pressure areas on the skin, reduce weakening and stiffening of muscles, and encourage proper breathing, digestion and elimination.
Toileting and Incontinence Care
Comfort Keepers compassionately and sensitively care for seniors and other adults, helping them maintain dignity and self-esteem as they receive help with the activities of daily living. Through this caring approach Comfort Keepers help to lessen clients’ embarrassment associated with the loss of independence related to incontinence and need for toileting assistance.
Feeding and Special Diet
For a number of reasons, adults may need help feeding themselves. This loss of independence can be difficult to accept. Comfort Keepers understand this and make the extra effort to turn mealtime into an enjoyable social time.
In addition, Comfort Keepers help make certain that seniors and other clients stay on prescribed diets to prevent or control a wide variety of medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis. As a guideline Comfort Keepers enable clients to eat a well balanced diet that provides the energy needed for active living and nutrients for disease prevention, healing and healthful living.
Nursing Care Services
Private duty nursing, by Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses who provide medical aid and personalized care post-surgical, post-accident trauma, short or long term serious illness, palliative care, IV therapy or elder care. Our nursing staff offers a wide variety of personalized and compassionate services, from daily visits to round the clock nursing, at home, hospital or nursing care facility.
Medical Record Tracking
Keeps accurate records of patient’s progress and the reactions to various treatments. Charts intake of fluids, food, bowel movements and medicines.
Administering Medications and Pain Management
Assists clients in the dispensing of pills, insulin, blood thinners, etc. Regulates and manages pain killers, etc.
Assessment of Vitals and Behavioral Changes
Monitoring a patient’s blood pressure, bodyweight, height, temperature, pulse rate, respiration, and heart rate to check for any anomalies. Assess behavioral
Skin and Foot Care
Offers assessment, treatment and management of nail problems, management of fungal nails, ingrown toenails, reduction of corns and calluses, care for fissured heels, etc.
Dressing Changes
Provides wound cleaning, ointment application, applying new dressings and daily assessment to determine when a patient can shower.
Ostomy Care
Assesses the skin for abnormalities, considers different pouching system options based on the person's skin and preferences. Upkeeps, maintains and sanitizes.
Glucose Monitoring
Glucose monitoring using blood glucose monitors, high or low blood pressure check ups, skin and foot care tests and dietary programs of the patient. Observes blood pressure readings and monitors changes.
Post Operative Medical Supervisory Care
Hospitals now recommend 24 hour supervisory care for a post operation patient who has same day discharge. Having nursing care follow recommended doctor’s guidelines and perform daily assessments help the client recuperate faster.
Specialized Care Services
Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
Some clients may experience momentary confusion or lapses in memory, but others are dealing with advanced stages of Alzheimer’s or dementia conditions. Specially trained Comfort Keepers provide activities that help improve a person’s quality of life such as music and other activities to stimulate the senses.
24-Hour and Overnight care Services
Comfort Keepers tailors care to each client’s needs—from a few hours a week to full-time care. Through our 24-hour care service, a team of Comfort Keepers coordinates caregiving responsibilities in shifts around the clock. This prevents gaps in coverage for individuals who may be at risk when unattended, such as those with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia-related conditions
Respite Care or Relief for Family
Caregiving can be rewarding and often strengthens bonds within a family. At the same time, caregiving can be demanding amidst life's other responsibilities.
Family caregivers and those in their care can benefit from a little time off and rest now and then. That is why Comfort Keepers offers respite caregiving. This service can be scheduled as needed to provide family caregivers time to run errands, go shopping or get some much-needed rest as well as during holidays, sick days or while on vacation.
Vision Loss Services
Comfort Keepers has partnered with CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind) to provide specially trained caregivers who can help you maintain your independence and remain at home.
Having a specially trained Comfort Keeper in your home to help you adapt to vision loss and provide ongoing assistance, can make a difference in the quality of your independent living.
CNIB continues to provide vital programs and services for people who are blind or partially sighted including an extensive range of innovative consumer products and one of the world’s largest libraries for people with print disabilities.
To contact the CNIB, please call 1-800-563-2642 or visit http://www.cnib.ca/
End-of-Life or Palliative Care
Our compassionate Comfort Keepers come to the aid of individuals who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. We help them and their families with emotional and moral support as well as helping out around the home and providing personal and companionship care—whatever is needed.
Comfort Keepers can support the family directly or work in partnership with a hospice agency or medical provider to fully meet the family’s needs.
Our ultimate goal is to help families make the most of their time together, helping to lighten the burden at a very difficult time. Through respite care, we give family caregivers needed rest.
And we can continue to help after a loved one’s passing. Our Comfort Keepers help families deal with the grief and assist with tasks such as organizing personal items and packing belongings—or just being there to listen if family members need to talk.
Emergency Response System
Comfort Keepers can help you gain independence, safety and peace of mind for you or your loved ones in the event of an emergency. Our Emergency Response System works virtually anywhere in your home at the touch of a button.
Periodic Review with Family
On a recurring basis we can contact the family to discuss how things are going, answer any concerns or redefine any services that may be needed. This is a great service for clients whose families live far away and may not be in daily contact with their loved ones.
Veterans Care Programs
Veterans or surviving spouses of veterans in need of in-home care may qualify for benefits through the Veteran Affairs program. We assist veterans and their spouses in the application process and provide in-home care services for approved participants. VAC Health Identification Cards Accepted.