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Adapting to New or Changing Care Staff

Many people needing health care services prefer to stay close to family and friends in a familiar and comfortable environment, rather than moving into an assisted living or long-term care home.

What is Home Care?

Home care is often provided by a team of health care providers. Each health care provider has unique skills, knowledge, roles, and responsibilities, working together to provide comprehensive care.

Home Care Teams

Use this tool to better understand the roles of your home care team and organize their contact information for quick reference.

The “My Home Care Team” tool is a printable sheet that helps with understanding and keeping track of the health care providers that make up a home care team.

My Home Care Team

There may be times when care expectations are unmet. Learn about common home care challenges that might be encountered and tools and strategies for dealing with them.

There may be times when care expectations are unmet. Learn about common home care challenges that might be encountered and the various tools and strategies for dealing with them.

Preparing for Missed Care Visits

Managing Unclear Care Expectations

Use this tool to communicate your loved one's care needs, abilities, and preferences with care providers in the home.

The Get to Know Me tool is a printable sheet that helps care providers become acquainted with the person they are providing care for. It can be displayed in the home to help home care providers learn about the interests, needs, and care preferences of the person receiving care.

Get to Know Me

Use this tool to prepare for missed care visits, planned/unplanned time away from your loved one, and delegating tasks to others.

The My Care Plan is a customizable tool for primary caregivers to communicate important information about the person being cared for. This tool can be customized to list caregiver tasks, preferences of the person being cared for, and other important information.

My Care Plan

A caregiver is someone who provides unpaid care to another person. Across Canada, one in four people provide unpaid care to a family member or friend. Caregivers save the healthcare system between $24-31 billion annually.

What is a Caregiver?

The responsibilities caregivers have may increase their likelihood of experiencing stress and burnout. It is important for caregivers to understand warning signs and use coping strategies when they feel stressed or burnt out.

Caregiver Stress & Burnout

Complete this self-assessment to determine your level of risk for experiencing caregiver burnout and stress.

The Stress and Burnout Self-Assessment helps caregivers determine their level of burnout and stress. This tool should only be used as a guideline and does not replace the advice of health care professionals.

Stress & Burnout Self-Assessment

Caregiving can feel overwhelming some days. It's easy to put personal needs aside in order to get through a to-do list, but caring for yourself is one of the best things you can do for the person you care for.

Caregiver Health

Take this quiz to explore healthy ways to cope with stress based on your interests.

Self-care helps you stay healthy and energized. Explore the self-care activities below to learn about their benefits for cognitive, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical wellbeing.

Self-Care Strategies Quiz

There are many different long-term (chronic) diseases that are common in older adults. Oftentimes, older adults may be managing multiple long-term diseases that can affect quality of life.

What is Chronic Disease Management?

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a long-term (chronic) condition that makes it hard to breathe and causes mucous build-up in the lungs.

What is COPD?

Use this tool to help monitor daily COPD symptoms and recognize when a flare-up or emergency occurs.

The COPD Zone Sheet and Symptom Log can be used to help monitor COPD symptoms. The COPD Zone Sheet and Symptom Log can be used to monitor COPD symptoms and recognize when flare-ups or emergency occurs.

COPD Zone Sheet and Symptom Log

Heart Failure (or Congestive Heart Failure) is a long-term (chronic) condition where the heart does not pump blood as well as it should.

What is Heart Failure?

Use this tool to help monitor daily heart failure symptoms and recognize when a flare-up or emergency occurs.

The Heart Failure Zone Sheet and Daily Weight Log can be used to help monitor heart failure symptoms. The Heart Failure Zone Sheet and Daily Weight Log tool can be used to monitor heart failure symptoms and recognize when flare-ups or emergency occurs.

Heart Failure Zone Sheet & Daily Weight Log

People living with chronic disease are more likely to feel dizzy or lightheaded as a symptom of their disease or due to medication side effects. This can increase the risk of falls and impact daily activities.

Dizziness

When patients communicate well with their healthcare providers, they take on an active role in their care. Having an active role in care means patients ask questions, voice their concerns, and make decisions.

Tips for Communicating with Healthcare Professionals

Use this tool to prepare for upcoming medical appointments. Plan and organize what to talk about with health professionals before an appointment.

The Appointment Planner Tool is a customizable and printable tool to help caregivers and people receiving care prepare for upcoming medical appointments. Within this tool are before, during, and after appointment checklists with tasks to complete at these different stages.

Appointment Planner

The self-reported Check-Up is a detailed health assessment that produces a summary to share with primary care providers.

The Check-Up Assessment is a questionnaire about health and wellbeing. It’s an opportunity to self-assess personal health needs or assess the health needs of someone being cared for.

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