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Internet Resources
Organizations That Can Direct You to Services
Canadian Association for Community Care
This association publishes a National Directory of Home Care and Support Services, in addition to informational,
educational and research publications on caregiving, home care, home support, respite and related topics.
Canadian Palliative Care Association
The association publishes a Directory of Palliative Care/Hospice Services in Canada.
Canadian Home Care Association
This Web site features a series of fact sheets listing, province-by-province, the types of home care services
available, eligibility criteria and fees.
HOMECARE Online (US)
National Association for Home Care
Organizations That Provide Home Care
Services and/or Caregiver Respite
The Ontario Community Support Association
The Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA) represents more than 350 Ontario not-for-profit
organizations that provide community health and support services.
Saint Elizabeth Health Care
An Ontario-based not-for-profit organization providing nursing, rehab, supportive care and specialized services.
Veterans Affairs
Canada — Caregivers Resource Inventory
Victorian Order of Nurses
The VON offers a wide range of home health care services, including respite care and adult day programs.
Home Care Research
The National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) has released a report entitled
The NACA Position on Home Care.
This report calls for a national home care system, including national support for caregiving. NACA's report presents
15 recommendations to governments and stakeholders to ensure that home care remains at the forefront of discussions
on how to modernize the health care system. NACA believes that the federal government can act as a role model and
leader in home care development.
Health Canada: Community Care
Health Canada: Home Care
The Home Care Evaluation and Research
Centre, University of Toronto
A Canadian research centre dedicated to the study of home care.
50 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3H4.
Tel: (416) 978-5627
Fax: (416) 978-8222
National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of
Home Care
A joint project of the University of Victoria's Centre on Aging, and Hollander Analytical Services Ltd.
scheduled to be completed by November 2000.
National Respite Care Project: Executive Summary
A project of the Canadian Association for Community Care.
Provincial and Territorial
Home Care Programs: A Synthesis for Canada
A 1999 report prepared by Health Canada researchers, with assistance from the Federal-Provincial-Territorial
Advisory Committee on Health Services Working Group on Continuing Care.
Saskatchewan Health Services Utilization
Research - Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care
A survey and consultation launched by the Saskatchewan Health Services Utilization and Research Commission,
in Spring 1995, with health district representatives.
Statistics Canada: Public Home Care
Expenditures in Canada - 1975-76 to 1997-98
Publications
Caring for Loved Ones at Home
A self-help guide on how to provide basic home care, written by Harry van el and published by Resources
Supporting Family and Community Legacies Inc.
Lancelot Press Ltd., P.0. Box 425, Huntsport, NS B0P 1P0
Tel: (902) 684-9129
Fax: (902) 684-3685
Other Resources
Organizations
Canadian Red Cross
Some Canadian Red Cross offices offer home support services. Contact your local branch.
Care Watch Toronto
A network of individuals and consumer organizations dedicated to quality community-based care.
140 Merton Street, 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M4S 1A1
Tel: (416) 590-0455
Fax (416) 510-1104
Publications
Putting A Face on Home Care: CARP's Report on Home Care in Canada 1999
CARP, 27 Queen St. E., Suite 1304, Toronto, ON M5C 2M6
Tel: (416) 363-8748 ext. 235 or toll-free: (800) 363-9736
Solutions: Canada's Family Guide to Home Health Care & Wellness
A magazine published by BCS Communications Ltd.
101 Thorncliffe Park Drive, Toronto, ON M4H 1M2
Available free from Shoppers Home Health Care
Take Care — A Practical Guide for Helping Elders, Ann Rhodes
Harper Collins Publications Ltd.
Suite 2900, Hazelton Lanes, 55 Avenue Road, Toronto, ON M5R 3L2
The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers, Marie M. Meyer with Paula Derr, RN.
Care Trust Publications
LLC, P.O. Box 10283, Portland, Oregon 97296-0283
Tel: (503) 221-1315
Fax (503) 221-7019
What are we going to do now: Helping your parents in their senior years, William Molloy, MD.
Key Porter Books
70 The Esplanade, Toronto, ON M5E 1R2
Videos
Home Care
Video #6 from the Aging and Caregiving TV/Video Series, featuring June Callwood and Dr. Irvin Wolkoff
To order, call (800) 757-4868. In Toronto, call (905) 602-1160
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