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Zen Home Care Inc.Address: 1920 Yonge St, Suite 200, Toronto, M4S 3E2Phone: 416-572-7739 Fax: 416-572-7501 Email: info@zenhomecare.ca Website: www.zenhomecare.ca Major Intersection: Yonge - Davisville Map: LHIN: Toronto Central LHIN Subregion: North Central Predominant Culture: |
| Case Management | |
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| Cost: | Our first hour long in-home consultation is free. Afterwards it is $60 per hour. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Zen Home Care Inc.’s registered nurse can offer counselling and support on which steps to take for persons facing difficult choices regarding their elderly loves ones. Our first consultation is always free, allowing clients to get to know us, and allowing them to discover if we are the right choice for them. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Client Intervention and Assistance | |
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| Cost: | Our first hour long in-home consultation is free. Afterwards it is $60 per hour. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Zen Home Care Inc. is available 24 hours a day. We are ready to offer caregiver services or consultation and counseling services quickly and efficiently. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Crisis Support and Assistance | |
| definition | |
| Cost: | Our first hour long in-home consultation is free. Afterwards it is $60 per hour. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | We are available 24 hours a day and can provide our consultation services immediately should there be an urgent need and crisis that needs to be resolved. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Dementia Specific Counselling | |
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| Cost: | Our first hour long in-home consultation is free. Afterwards it is $60 per hour. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Our counselling services help families make the choice that is right for them. We support families in their transition towards setting up the appropriate care of a loved one. We also offer economical solutions, such as our CareCircle program, that through inexpensive (Approx 95$/year) web based software, assists families and friends to create and organize a network of care for the loved one in question. We are solution oriented, and seek to find the best solution for the situation at hand. We also offer nutritional counselling, as well as other activities that can be done to support, physical, mental-emotional well-being of both the client and their family. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Geriatric Care Management | |
| definition | |
| Cost: | Our first hour long in-home consultation is free. Afterwards it is $60 per hour. Minimum 2 hours per visit. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Zen Home Care Inc.’s registered nurse can offer counselling and support on which steps to take for persons facing difficult choices regarding their elderly loves ones. Our first consultation is always free, allowing clients to get to know us, and allowing them to discover if we are the right choice for them. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Home Safety Assessment and Counselling | |
| definition | |
| Cost: | Our first hour long in-home consultation is free. Afterwards it is $60 per hour. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | We have a safety checklist that is developed in order to verify that the living arrangements of the person in question are safe. After a thorough assessment, we can provide recommendation of necessary steps that need to be taken, and if needed, refer to the appropriate service providers. Please note that our safety checklist is available at no charge on the home page of http://www.zenhomecare.ca. It is our goal to be as helpful as possible. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Homemaking / Home Help | |
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| Cost: | $20 per hour. Minimum of 3 hours per visit. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Services include light house cleaning, laundry/ironing, shopping, banking/paying bills. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Hospital to Home Transition Service | |
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| Cost: | $100.00. The total time of this service is approximately 5 hours. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Our caregivers pick up the client from the hospital, and bring them home, and afterwards helps them settle at home by assuring that they are comfortable, preparing meals for them, and verifying that they have everything they need. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Information and Referral | |
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| Cost: | All telephone consultations are free. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Zen Home Care Inc. is always happy to provide information and referrals at no charge to whoever requests it. We are aware of other service providers, healthcare professional, government programs, as well as our own inexpensive programs that may be of assistance to others. Zen Home Care Inc. is happy to help, and re-direct callers to other services or professionals that may be more befitting for their situation. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Live-in Caregivers | |
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| Cost: | $165.00 per day |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss who require this service. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | We also have a one time placement fee option, where we charge a one time fee of 2000$ and then for the next 3 months, support the client in their transition as the employer of the caregiver. The client will be expected to pay the caregiver 10-12$/hr, 8 hours a day, with at least one day off a week. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Palliative Care / Hospice | |
| definition | |
| Cost: | $20 to $22 per hour. 3 hour minimum per visit. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Some of our caregivers have extensive experience in palliative care. They are there to help client in their end of life transition. Services can be provided in client’s home, or as extra help in a palliative care unit. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Personal Care / Personal Support | |
| definition | |
| Cost: | $20 to $22 per hour. 3 hour minimum per visit. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Services include: escorting to appointments, assistance with eating, toileting, nail and hair care and oral care. Our competent, compassionate caregivers are readily available to perform all the tasks described above. Our caregivers have received personal support worker training from recognized institutions, or have previous careers as RPN’s. They are caring individuals, committed to performing these tasks with gentleness, dignity, and competence in the home, at long term care facilities, retirement homes and hospitals as required. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
| Respite Care at Home | |
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| Cost: | $20 to $22 per hour. 3 hour minimum per visit. |
| Population Served: | Persons with dementia, aphasia or hearing loss, and their caregivers. |
| Area Served: | Metropolitan Toronto |
| Additional Information: | Our competent, compassionate caregivers are readily available to perform all the tasks described above. Our caregivers have received personal support worker training from recognized institutions, or have previous careers as RPN’s. They are caring individual, committed to performing these tasks with gentleness, dignity, and competence. |
| Last Updated: | January 2009 |
Organizations in Toronto offering dementia related programs and services are invited to send us the details so that they can be posted on our website. Just send the completed survey to mcameron@alzheimertoronto.org OR fax: 416-322-6656 For more information on how to be added to the database, or to update your organization's existing records, please contact Margaret Cameron at: mcameron@alzheimertoronto.org or tel: 416-640-6320. |
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