Bytowne specializes in providing Attendant Care Services to individuals who are facing  health challenges that result from an injury or a chronic condition.

Attendant Care Providers help with daily activities such as personal grooming, transferring, dressing, bathing, meal preparation, light housekeeping and more.

Our Personal Support Workers have professional certifications, they are friendly and compassionate. Our Personal Support Workers ensure our client’s physical and emotional needs are met.

Our Personal Support Workers can assist with:

• Bathing
• Grooming and personal hygiene
• Dressing
• Meals and monitoring of nutrition
• Incontinence
• Medication reminders
• Safe mobility and one-person transfers including the use of a lift
• Cognitive impairment
• Exercises as recommended by physiotherapists
• Monitoring and reporting of behavioural changes

In addition to the Companionship Services listed above, we offer Homemaker Services to help reduce stress and worry and to ensure a safer, more organized home environment. Our home care assistance services include:

• Assisting with laundry and ironing
• Removing disposables and recyclables
• Changing linens and making beds
• Dusting, polishing, vacuuming, cleaning floors, etc.
• Preparing meals and meal plans that respect cultural traditions, religious beliefs and any other special dietary requirements
• Organizing and cleaning closets
• Assisting with pet care
• Overseeing home deliveries
• Caring for house plants
• Interior seasonal decorating
• Providing guidance during phone calls for personal services, inquiries, etc.
• Assisting with holiday preparation
• Providing home safety advice and assistance

Quality Ottawa Home Care involves more than providing physical assistance and support. It is also about being there to listen, interact and to show genuine kindness. Our Companionship Services include:

Help with Self-care

• Assisting with evening activities
• Assisting with wake-up and morning activities
• Helping with medication reminders
• Monitoring food expiration dates
• Providing reminders for appointments
• Assisting with reading
• Assisting with clothing selection
• Helping with grocery shopping

 Promoting Interaction with Others

• Conversation and camaraderie
• Assisting with entertaining guests
• Visiting neighbours and friends
• Playing games and cards
• Selecting, renting and watching movies
• Accompanying to appointments, shopping, errands or religious services
• Providing companionship at lunch or dinner
• Attending a play, concert or sporting event
• Providing companionship at club meetings and events

Respite care provides relief for family members who are unable to provide health care for loved ones during times of stress, illness or other unexpected circumstances, such as changes due to the aging process, cognition impairment and chronic illness.

Respite care has been shown to have positive effects on the mental and physical health of caregivers. Respite care helps to reduce stress and physical exertion and it diminishes the risk of the caretaker becoming overwhelmed by circumstances that are beyond his or her control. By sharing the caretaker role, a more consistent level of elderly health care can be achieved right at home. Having respite care can help to put off the need to transfer the loved one to a permanent health care facility.

Bytowne Home Care Services extends beyond the family home and is also offered to individuals who reside in a retirement or assisted living residence. If you or your family must be away or have less time than you would like to visit, our Institutional Supplementary Care service will ensure that a complete home health care plan is in place. We will customize our services to work with your loved one’s existing support system, environment and needs. De-cluttering,  downsizing or moving? We can help with that too!

When a loved one needs a higher level of care, Bytowne offers skilled nursing services provided by experienced Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs). As part of our team, RNs and RPNs are dedicated to promoting good health and wellness to clients and their families. Nursing services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and includes:

• Administering medication
• Intravenous initiation and maintenance
• Mental health
• Catheter care
• Wound care
• Palliative care—pain and symptom management
• Chronic disease management
• Ostomy care
• Advanced foot care (e.g. for diabetics)
• Ventilator care
• Post-operative home care services (such as injectables, dressing changes, suture or staple removal)

Bytowne Homecare provides experienced live-in caregivers. Live-in caregivers stay overnight in the home, for a short period of time or permanently. Some of the services include:

• 24/7 care and on-call support
• Assistance with both personal care and activities of daily living

We work with you to find the most appropriate solution to meet your loved one’s needs. All of our caregivers are carefully screened, insured and bonded.