Searching for Transportation For Older Adults

Provides a variety of homecare services including:

• Companionship, homecare and personal care
• Alzheimer and dementia care
• Live in care
• Non-medical home care
• Outpatient assistance
• Respite care
• Returning home post-discharge care
• Seniors transportation

Provides affordable door to door transportation for seniors or those with a disability to help them with various activities such as grocery shopping, medical appointments and social outings

NOTE: Vehicles are not equipped to accommodate wheelchairs

Offers various services to seniors including the following:
Community Dining Program

• Offers one meal per week in their community
• Provides transportation if required, for social activity to clients who would not be able to attend without assistance

Emergency Response Systems

• Provides an electronic device in a client's home that enables clients to communicate in an emergency
• Provides a 24-hour service

Friendly Visiting

• Provides a check up call, personal or telephone contact to seniors living alone

Homemaking

• Assists with routine household activities such as light housekeeping, meal preparation and laundry

Meals on Wheels

• Delivers hot and frozen meals for lunch to individuals to assist in meeting their nutritional needs
• Provides social contact and a health and safety check of the client at the time of the meal delivery
• Provides one meal per week or up to 5 daily meals per week
• Accommodates special diets such as diabetic diet, food allergies and/or tolerances etc

Respite Service

• Provides in-home service to enable family and friends to have relief from their caregiving role and to help relieve stress placed on family relationships

Supportive Housing

• Provides designated housing for an average of 50 clients with the ability to expand as the need arises, and includes personal support, medications reminder, homemaking, meal preparation
• Provides 24-hour attendant service and emergency response service

Transportation

• Provides transportation to medical, dental, and vision appointments as well as to clinics and hospitals
• Volunteers assist individuals with entering and exiting the vehicle or building and with packages
• Recommends advance notice of 2 to 3 days for booking transportation

Provides transportation services to individuals who are 55 years of age or older and/or who have a physical or mental disability

• Operates as a community seniors' centre offering recreational activities, educational programs/workshops and various support services
• Sends a monthly activity/workshops calendar to community seniors
• Offers Centre rentals to community members for various activities

Coordinates the following support services:

• Friendly visiting
• Help Line
• Home maintenance and snow shovelling
• Transportation for shopping and errands

Diner's Club

• Provides hot meals at the Centre 3 days per week
• Offers a time of socialization for community seniors

Also coordinates:

• Meals on Wheels Program

Offers transportation services for Manitoulin Island elders

• Provides door-to-door transportation for medical appointments, errands, banking and shopping, traditional gatherings and social/community events
• Assists with embarking and disembarking the van