Companion Care Services

Companion Services are typically non-medical services that your loved one may require to remain living at home. Our goal at Happy at Home is to provide help and companionship.

The following is a list of some of those tasks.  Everyone's needs are different, however these are the most frequently requested tasks of our companions. 

• Companionship in conversation
• Play games and cards
• Maintain memory books, boxes and scrapbooks
• Assist with entertaining, especially at holiday time
• Discussion surrounding both current and historical events
• Reminiscing about the past
• Assistance with reading newspapers for those who are visually impaired
• Family tree and history documentation
• Respite care for primary caregivers living in the home
• Arranging appointments, providing reminders for appointments and accompaniment to those appointments
• Monitor diet intake and eating patterns
• Prepare grocery list and shopping for groceries
• Fridge and freezer management (expiration date police)
• Medication reminders
• Errands to the pharmacy (to pick up medication routinely to prevent unnecessary reordering of prescription medication etc.)
• Assistance with walking, exercises as laid out by physiotherapists, dog walking
• Mail collection, letter writing and correspondence
• Oversee home deliveries (pharmacies, incontinent products, grocery delivery)
• Care for house plants and pets, household checks during hospital admission or vacation
• Church attendance and travel companion
• Accompaniment to entertainment, weddings and funerals
• Overall maintenance of a fresh and comfortable environment