Home Instead Senior Care
Scarborough

Home Instead Senior Care Franchise Network Honoured by Canadian Franchise Association

How professional caregivers are playing a larger role in health-care teams

Professional caregivers are now playing a bigger role in assisting healthcare teams with patients in hospital settings, and for good reason. With rising numbers of women in the workforce, family caregivers who had been helping loved ones can no longer perform the function, or at least, perform it to the same degree. What’s more, the demands placed on hospital nursing staff are considerable, and any help dealing with patients is a huge benefit.

Escalating need for senior home care service

Popularity of brain-fitness games soaring, but do they really work?

All eyes are trained on the wall-mounted TV as colourful balloons sporting various numbers spin and dance around the screen. Players call out the numbers, lowest to highest, and the activities co-ordinator clicks a remote to burst the balloons as the answers come fast and furious.