COVID-19: Help for Seniors

Blog  |  April 3, 2020

Amidst the Coronavirus crisis, during a period of time when staying at home and socially distanced is essential, it’s important to keep seniors safe, reassured, active, and cared for.

COVID-19: Help for Seniors | Things to Consider:

• One-to-one relationships are important right now. Our caregivers are trained in infection control and senior care, and work in a one-on-one relationship with seniors, reducing the risk of community-wide exposure to COVID-19.

• Seniors are safest at home, away from the risk of infection. Comfort Keepers focuses on care and supportive services centered around serving seniors in their homes, where they are best protected.

• Our caregivers can pick up prescriptions, grocery shop or provide transportation to medical appointments.

• Our offices can help with online orders of supplies, meals, and other necessities.

• Our caregivers can provide housekeeping and make sure that surfaces are disinfected to
keep seniors clean and prepare meals to make sure they are nourished.

• Comfort Keepers is all about Elevating the Human Spirit for clients, caregivers, and families. That has never been more important than now. During this time of social distancing, seniors may be socially isolated, in addition to being physically isolated. Comfort Keepers works to help seniors fight depression and loneliness, especially while remaining at home. We help keep them active, optimistic, and socially engaged during this period. A daily dose of joy is sorely needed.

• Supporting families is essential. When a senior is in the care of Comfort Keepers, so is their entire family. We are a supportive resource to address questions, and concerns, and check on loved ones.

• Many of our offices provide digital, remote services to extend care (including virtual check-ins). We can enable social connection and augment in-home visits. This includes check-in phone calls.

• Whenever possible and safely, our caregivers are encouraged to practice Interactive CaregivingTM. Instead of doing it for the client, we do it with the client. Participating in daily activities will keep seniors active, and engaged, and provide a sense of normalcy in a time of uncertainty.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian seniors

Comfort Keepers® Georgian Triangle – Leaders in Family-Focused Personal Health Care

If you are concerned about the health and well-being of your aging loved ones we can help. Comfort Keepers®’s trained caregivers help provide senior clients with the highest quality of life possible to keep them happy and healthy at home. Our Interactive Caregiving™ provides a system of care that addresses safety, nutrition, mind, body, and activities of daily living (ADLs).

What’s more, our trained caregivers are selected with one specific quality in mind: empathy. Care that is empathetic is care that starts in the heart, and it allows us to meet our client’s exact needs. Learn more about our unique service offering Dementia Care and Palliative Care by contacting the Comfort Keepers Georgian Triangle office.

Comfort Keepers Georgian Triangle, is pleased to announce that we are a recipient of Accreditation Canada’s, Accreditation Primer Award. Accreditation is an intensive process in which an organization’s processes, policies, and procedures are examined by industry experts against a set of quality standards. To achieve accredited status, Comfort Keepers offices met or exceeded the rigorous standards for Home Care companies, as defined by Accreditation Canada. 

If you live in the Collingwood, Midland, Owen Sound area, contact Comfort Keepers at (705) 293-5553, or email us at georgiantriangle@comfortkeepers.ca. Comfort Keepers Georgian Triangle is here to help you and your loved ones get the best care possible.

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