Extended Families Support Services

Looking to Help Others?

⭐We're Hiring at Extended Families Support Services⭐

Join our team and help provide quality care to seniors and people with disabilities. The job’s responsibilities differ between clients, but overall the role includes:

🔷Personal care services:
Support with bathing, walking, dressing, transferring, medication reminders, assistance with exercises, and completing any Activities of Daily Living

🔷Homemaking Services:
Support with homemaking duties such as housecleaning, laundry, cooking, organizing, pet care, property maintenance and gardening

🔷Transportation and Accompaniment:
Transport and accompany clients to medical appointments, shopping, running personal errands, recreational activities in the community etc.

We are Currently Seeking:

• Certified Support Workers (Personal Support Worker, Developmental Support Worker or equivalent)

• Minimum Two Years Experience (Work or volunteer experience in family or individual care for seniors or people with disabilities)

• Personal Vehicle Required (Access to a car or other transportation is required at this time due to current operational needs, but we are open to future flexibility.)

If you are interested in this position and would like to apply, please email [email protected]. If you would like to learn more about Extended Families and this role, please visit extendedfamiliesforhire.com

As we kick off World Alzheimer's month, it is important to recognize that 352,000 individuals in Ontario are living with dementia. A dementia task force has been established to help coordinate dementia care at a system level in Ontario. Lets hope this helps.

If you or a loved one are struggling with dementia, Extended Families can help. Please feel free to reach out anytime.

Ontario dementia task force aims to create ’Infrastructure for care’: spokesperson Adam Morrison, senior director of public policy and partnerships for Alzheimer's Society of Ontario, shares the process behind the new dementia task force.

Team bonding at Palasad London for our support workers 😁

Congratulations Chelsea Cull!! We will be in touch with you to claim your prize. 🎉

“If I get dementia, I’d like my family to hang this wish list up on the wall where I live. I want them to remember these things.

1. Every time you enter the room announce yourself. “Hi mom - it’s ………...”
NEVER ask- Do you know who I am??? That causes anxiety.

2. If I get dementia, I want my friends and family to embrace my reality. 🌸

3. If I think my spouse is still alive, or if I think we’re visiting my parents for dinner, let me believe those things. I’ll be much happier for it.❤️

4. If I get dementia, don’t argue with me about what is true for me versus what is true for you.👍🏽❤️👍🏽

5. If I get dementia, and I am not sure who you are, do not take it personally. My timeline is confusing to me.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

6. If I get dementia, and can no longer use utensils, do not start feeding me. Instead, switch me to a finger-food diet, and see if I can still feed myself.❤️🥰❤️🥰

7. If I get dementia, and I am sad or anxious, hold my hand and listen. Do not tell me that my feelings are unfounded.

8. If I get dementia, I don’t want to be treated like a child. Talk to me like the adult that I am. ❤️

9. If I get dementia, I still want to enjoy the things that I’ve always enjoyed. Help me find a way to exercise, read, and visit with friends. ❤️

10. If I get dementia, ask me to tell you a story from my past.

11. If I get dementia, and I become agitated, take the time to figure out what is bothering me. ❤️

12. If I get dementia, treat me the way that you would want to be treated. ❤️

13. If I get dementia, make sure that there are plenty of snacks for me in the house. Even now if I don’t eat I get angry, and if I have dementia, I may have trouble explaining what I need.❤️

14. If I get dementia, don’t talk about me as if I’m not in the room.👍🏽

15. If I get dementia, don’t feel guilty if you cannot care for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s not your fault, and you’ve done your best. Find someone who can help you, or choose a great new place for me to live.👍🏽

16. If I get dementia, and I live in a dementia care community, please visit me often.❤️

17. If I get dementia, don’t act frustrated if I mix up names, events, or places. Take a deep breath. It’s not my fault.👍🏽

18. If I get dementia, make sure I always have my favorite music playing within earshot.❤️❤️❤️

19. If I get dementia, and I like to pick up items and carry them around, help me return those items to their original place.👍🏽

20. If I get dementia, don’t exclude me from parties and family gatherings.❤️

21. If I get dementia, know that I still like receiving hugs or handshakes.❤️🥰❤️

22. If I get dementia, remember that I am still the person you know and love.”🌼❤️

In Honor of someone you know or knew who has dementia. In Honor of all those I know and love and lost who are fighting Dementia/Alzheimer’s.

Someone once said if you take care of someone with dementia you lose them more and more everyday. When they get the diagnosis, when they go through different stages, when they need treatment and when they pass away.

This is called "the longest goodbye ". As the brain slowly dies, they change physically and eventually forget who their loved ones are. They could end up lying in bed, not moving and not eating or drinking.

There will be people who will scroll past this post because Dementia has not touched them. They may not know what it's like to have a loved one who has battled or is still battling dementia.”

Not all behaviours are what they seem.

Developed for health care providers, our "Changing Behaviours in the IDD population" webinar explores how people with Intellectual and Developmental disabilities (IDD) and dementia respond to stress, and how to better support them.

📅 May 13 | 3:30–4:30 PM ET

Register today: bit.ly/4cyZuDl