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Call 416-646-5108 to reach our community support services coordinators.

Service Details:

Pickup and delivery of purchased grocery within service boundary and specified stores.

Help purchase, pickup and delivery of grocery in specified stores

Medication pickup and delivery is available if mutually consented between the service users and the pharmacy stores.

Service Boundary: See attachment for details.

Cost: Co-payment

Grocery delivery $5 within 10 km ($2.5 for every additional 5 km)

Medication delivery $5 within 10 km ($2.5 for every additional 5 km)

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Provide virtual emotional support/supportive counselling via phone call. Issues including Pandemic coping, grieving, abuse, caregiving stress, isolation, and etc.

Service Boundary: Do not apply

Cost: No cost

Service Details:

In-home personal support services including light meal preparation, light cleaning, daily living activities, personal hygiene, medication reminder

Service Boundary: Within the transportation service boundary. See attachment for details.

Cost: Co-payment: $28.5/hour for a minimum of 2 hours per visit

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Provide telephone call for safety check and social interaction in a regular schedule.

Service Boundary: Do not apply

Cost: No cost

Service Details:

Regular Chinese hot meal, frozen Chinese and Western meals available. Hot meal delivery from Monday to Friday 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. during weekdays. Frozen meals delivery on every Thursday or Friday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Special or/and minced diet is available with surcharge of $1 per meal if needed.

Service Boundary: See attached for details

Cost: Co-payment

Hot Meals $ 8.00 per meal ; frozen food $ 7.50 per meal with a minimum of 5 meals per order etc., plus delivery fee.

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Service Details:

Transportation ride to attend essential medical appointments; Visit pharmacy for medication pickup; Visit stores for grocery and/or essential supply purchase within the service boundary

Service Boundary: Within South of Bloomington Road, East of Bathurst Street, West of Tenth Line/ Markham, North of Lakeshore). See attachment for details.

Cost: Co-payment

$7.5 within 5.0 km one way; $12 for 5.1 – 10 km one way

Service Details:

A FREE food basket consisting of non-perishable food items to be delivered to seniors/individuals who are isolated with financial challenges. Has to be recommended by service providers such as the care coordinators.

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Notice: Programs & Services Affected by COVID-19 (click to open)

Progress Report: COVID-19 Community Emergency Response Program (click to open)

Wellness / Volunteer Development YouTube Channel (click to open)

Mobilizing Local Love (click to open)

Community Support Services / CSS Carers Chat Channel (click to open)

Letter from Teresa & Joseph (20200602) (click to open)

Letter from Lina (20200529) (click to open)

Letter from Exercise Class Participants (20200330) (click to open)

RGP COVID-19 resources to support the care of older adults with frailty:

1. COVID-19 in Older Adults (PDF) – updated information on atypical presentations and optimizing care for older adults with COVID-19.

2. Cognitive tools for virtual care (PDF) – commonly used cognitive tools (MoCA, MMSE. RUDAS and mini-CoG) with the visual parts blown up for easy use during virtual assessments. Developed by Dr. Terumi Izukawa, MD, FRCPC. (This resource will not be available on our website)

3. Family Councils Ontario Virtual Visits Toolkit (PDF) – Toolkit for any long-term care team attempting to set up scheduled video calls between older adults and their loved ones.

4. CLRI Supports for LTC Team Members (Web page) – COVID-19 mental health supports for LTC teams, resources for residents, compassionate communication modules, and more from the Ontario Centres for Learning, Research, & Innovation (CLRI).

5. DementiAbility Messaging/Memory Supports (Web page) – This document (available in MS Word on the webpage) includes a variety of COVID-19 messages for individuals living with dementia. There are also templates that can be modified for your organization.

6. Activities for older adults living with Dementia (PDF) – A guide to online resources for those providing care for people with dementia. UK resource developed by Health Innovation Network South London. May provide inspiration for staff in LTC.

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