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Our Team

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Your Home Instead Senior Care in Etobicoke possess a heartfelt desire to work with seniors in the Etobicoke area including Bloor West Village & West Toronto. It's the reason why they were chosen to serve seniors and their families.

When you're ready for help, our caring staff is on call to quickly answer your questions and accommodate your senior services needs.

It's that simple. This is all we do and because the home care services your loved one or friend needs must come from someone you trust locally, Home Instead Senior Care office is passionate about exceeding the needs of the elderly in our community. We're not a giant corporation run from the top down - we're a community-based, friendly and responsive office right here in Etobicoke.

Today, many relationships are formed daily through CAREGivers who provide home care help to clients and their families who desire assistance with activities that used to be simple. Tasks like grabbing a can of soup from the top shelf, opening the mail, reading a book, folding laundry, tying shoelaces or scrapbooking family history are not as easy as they used to be for many seniors.

Brenda Enright, Franchise Owner

Working with seniors is something that was instilled upon me from a young age by my mother. When my mother was a volunteer visitor I would occasionally join her on her visits to see Katarina when I was about 8 years old. Katarina was Russian and spoke only a little bit of English. I still remember that Katarina would be in absolute amazement when I would put the straw in my drinking box – she had never seen anything like it and I would show her how it worked! In sharing the same passion with my mother, I continued on during my high school years volunteering at a Long Term Care facility & volunteer visiting also. Later in life when my grandmother was in Long Term Care, just over an hour away, I regularly went to visit her with my three children until she passed away in 2010. Seeing the enjoyment that she would get watching the children run around and engage her was priceless and truly memorable. Being the owner of Etobicoke’s Home Instead Senior Care allows me to work at my passion and sincerely feel like I am making a difference in a senior’s life. I am honored to have the privilege to provide services to our clients and it is something I take very personally.

Karen Vechiola

As the service coordinator, Karen spends her time in the field visiting clients, CAREGivers and community members ensuring we provide a regular and consistent quality of service. To me it’s personal, building relationships with our clients and being committed to provide top quality care at all times. Karen is committed to our clients, their families and our CAREGiver’s and is available to provide whatever help or guidance you may require.

Nicolette Fortuin

Having being an advocate for her Father who had dementia has helped Nicolette to be a successful Staff Coordinator. Nicolette is compassionate and understanding and knows the importance of building relationships with clients and their families. It is crucial for Nicolette to develop a rapport with various CAREGiver to ensure that they will be a perfect match for your loved one.

Ai-Kwang Warren

The front line of our business is CAREGivers and Ai-Kwang’s previous experience as a staffing coordinator gives her a thorough understanding of how important the client/CAREGiver relationship is. Ai-Kwang’s primary role as Recruitment and Retention Coordinator is to recruit CAREGivers who have the skills, compassion and respect for our clients’ individual needs. She is also responsible for the execution of our training programs to ensure that our CAREGiver’s have the skills to provide the highest quality of care in the community.

Shirley Cummins

Shirley is dedicated to providing excellence in customer service and administration, as well as, to serving others in her community.  She has had an extensive administrative career within the health care industry where she was acknowledged for her dedication to her role.  Giving back to her community is also an integral part of her life.  She has volunteered with seniors, families of ‘at risk’ children, supported cancer patients through treatments, delivered library materials to ‘shut-in‘ patrons and tutored adult learners.  She is compassionate and caring and has experience as a CAREGiver.  These dual backgrounds help her to understand her role as Administrative Assistant at Home Instead Senior Care both from the perspective of a CAREGiver and that of an administrator. 

Dan Gallagher

Letting healthcare professionals  in the etobicoke area know about Home Instead  Senior Care Services is critical to helping familes find immediate care in emergency situations. Our new Community Representative Dan Gallagher can help in these situations and more. In his role he will responsible for connecting Home Instead Senior Care in the Etobicoke community. Dan was selected because of his keen interest in senior's and desire to help them maintain their independent lifestyle. Dan will be out in the Etobicoke community working with our community partners presenting our public education programs and sharing how Home Instead can help seniors and their families. Dan will also be involved in the community supporting non profit and other organizations  that serve seniors.