Families in Vancouver are encouraged to seek out professional respite care for elderly relatives. When a parent or elderly loved one requires extensive care, this is cumulatively taxing on your time, energy and resources. Caregivers in Greater Vancouver (including Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, etc.) can get a break from caregiving by availing themselves of a number of services
Your options in respite care include residential care facilities, adult day centres and programs, and home care services. Learn more about the advantages.
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Lifestyle Options: Apartments, Independent Living, Long-term care
Thornebridge Gardens is one of New Westminster’s finest retirement residences, providing luxurious, worry-free surroundings with life enriching services that inspire healthy senior living. Many options are available!
Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
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Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Long-term care
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Lifestyle Options: Independent Living, Assisted Living
A number of Vancouver's top retirement homes offer respite care services, with a number of obvious advantages to families and seniors.
For the caregiver, these benefits include:
For the elderly family member with dementia or another care need, the benefits include:
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A trial stay in a retirement home is a great way to get facts. When doing so, you are likely to have your eyes opened to local senior care available to you, the excellent facilities and environments available, and the professional care staff in these residences.
Short-term stays are an ideal tool for families, as Alzheimer's Disease progresses. You can try out a variety of local memory care facilities, find out how costs fit your budget and how care facilities meet the specific needs of your aging loved one. Many retirement homes are adjusting facilities' design and care options to meet the needs of an increasing number of dementia patients. This includes those with Alzheimer's Disease certainly, but also other dementias, including early onset Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Lewy Body Dementia and other related dementias and memory disorders.
Homes listed above have much more detail about short term stays they offer, and what types of care are available.