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Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
Aging At Home Program
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-4408
100 Main St E
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
Operates as a program under the Healing and Wellness Branch
- Provides supports for Indigenous seniors to remain in their own homes as long as possible
- Aims to improve the quality of life of community seniors and to help reduce the stress felt by the family and caregivers
- Provides education and information related to health and well-being
- Acts as a resource and respite for family members who are caring for an elderly loved one
- Assistance with bathing
- Contracted services for lawn care and snow removal
- Light housekeeping
- Laundry
- Meal preparation
- Transportation for running errands such as medical appointments, bank and grocery store
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Home Health Services
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-1149
101 Main St E
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
Provides a variety of in-home health care services
Home Support
Home Support
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Companion Aide
- Dementia Care
- Homemaking
- Palliative Care
- Personal Care
- Respite Care
- Acute care post hospitalization
- Chronic disease management
- Foot care
- Intravenous Care
- Mental Health
- Palliative Care
- Pediatric
- School Health
- Wound Care
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Adult Day Program
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-6001
418 Steerola St, Apt 204, Fotheringham Court Apartment Complex
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
- Provides supervised individual and group physical and recreational activities
- Offers activities for frail and/or elderly individuals
- Provides individual and/or group activities for adults diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and other progressive cognitive disorders or dementias
- Encourages social interaction
- Serves as respite for caregivers
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Assisted Living Program
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-6001
418 Steerola St, Apt 204, Fotheringham Court Apartment Complex
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
Provides assisted living services to enable seniors to live independently in their own home
Offers the following services based upon the development of an individualized care plan:
Offers the following services based upon the development of an individualized care plan:
- Provides assistance with light housekeeping and laundry
- Aids with meal preparation
- Assists with personal care
- Provides medication reminders and monitoring
- Assists with arranging appointments for medical and other services
- Assists clients with arrangements for rental contract and installation of lifeline equipment that enables them to obtain 24-hour emergency assistance
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Home Help Program
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-6001
418 Steerola St, Apt 204, Fotheringham Court Apartment Complex
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
- Provides assistance in individual's home with housekeeping including vacuuming, cleaning stoves, ovens and cupboards
- Assists with laundry
- Aids with meal preparation
- Assists with minimal personal care
- Accompanies individuals for shopping and banking errands
- Offers respite care
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Respite Services
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-2259
114 Gorrie St
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
- Provides families with temporary relief from the physical and emotional demands involved in caring for a family member who has a disability
- Respite can be provided for a few hours, a day, weekend or a week on an occasional or a regular basis
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In Patient Care
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-4215
120 Dorothy St
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
- Provides active beds utilized for general medical and surgical patients
- Offers cardiac care
- Provides palliative care
- Offers assistance for rehabilitation patients
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Homemakers Program
Ginoogaming First Nation
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Office: 807-876-1660
100 Balsam Rd, Ginoogaming Training Centre
Ginoogaming First Nation, ON, P0T 2A0
Ginoogaming First Nation, ON, P0T 2A0
Short Description
- Provides information, advocacy and support to assist elders to remain in their homes as long as possible
- Provides assistance with household chores, light housekeeping, gathering wood and water and needs in the home as they arise
- Provides accompaniment and return transportation for medical appointments and shopping in Longlac or out-of-town trips
- Acts as respite for informal caregivers such as extended family
- Acts as a social support for isolated or ill individuals
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Home and Community Care
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-2159
120 Dorothy St
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Atikokan, ON, P0T 1C0
Short Description
Formerly Community Care Access Centre
Access to health care support at home or in the community
Access to health care support at home or in the community
- Assists clients to plan and make informed choices about managing their health care needs or those of someone they care for
- Coordinates information about other services available within the community and links them with these services when appropriate
- Determines access to health care services provided in the home
- Determines admission to Long Term Care Facilities (homes for the aged, nursing homes)
- Determines access to health support services provided in schools for children with special needs
- Maintains an ongoing waiting list
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Long Term Care Program
Seine River First Nation (60km)
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Office: 807-599-2224
37 Riverside Rd W
Seine River First Nation, ON, P0W 1H0
Seine River First Nation, ON, P0W 1H0
Short Description
Provides information, advocacy and support to assist individuals who are living alone to remain in their homes as long as possible
- Offers services of Home Makers for assistance with indoor chores and Home Support staff for assistance with outdoor work
- Assists elders and families that have members with disabilities in their residence with routine household activities such as light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation and personal care
- Provides assistance with heavy and seasonal housecleaning, gathering firewood and water and winter shovelling or other yardwork and small home repairs
- Provides return transportation for medical appointments in Fort Frances
- Acts as a social support for isolated or ill individuals
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Seniors Services
Ignace (73km)
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Office: 807-934-2251
1100 Main St
Ignace, ON, P0T 1T0
Ignace, ON, P0T 1T0
Short Description
Provides services for community seniors to enable them to remain healthy and live independently as long as possible
- Offers home visits by a Registered Nurse or Nurse Practitioner following an initial home assessment
- Monitors medical concerns, illness prevention and offers health promotion
- Provides nutrition assessments to enable advice about healthy eating and signs of aging such as osteoporosis
- Assists in obtaining the Lifeline program, an emergency help line reachable at the push of a button
- Provides referrals to therapists and geriatric experts
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