Services

Supporting older adults living with a serious illness or frailty.

Would you like:

• Help understanding the community and health care resources that may be available to you?
• Support navigating our complex health care system?
• Help preparing the questions that you would like to ask your health care providers?
• A volunteer to accompany you to a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner appointment and take notes for you.
• Help making an ‘action plan’ to carry out the health care instructions given to you?
• Meet you when ready for discharge from the emergency department or from the hospital to help take notes of your discharge instructions?
• Help preparing a record of your medical history to have ready to share with your health care providers?
• Some mentoring in the process of making an advance care plan for health care decisions?

Supporting neighbourhoods in providing compassionate support for one another.

• Would you like more information about how we can build compassionate caring in our neighbourhoods?
• Our trained volunteers are willing to help you and your neighbourhood connect with and support one another by:
  • Helping you plan activities such as a coffee social, a barbecue or another shared neighbourhood activity.
  • Providing suggestions on ways neighbours can together support older neighbours living with serious illness or frailty.
  • Organizing interactive educational conversations for your neighbourhood on topics that may be of interest to you. Some examples of health topics are:
    • Living healthy lives with chronic conditions.
    • Supporting those living with dementia or other chronic conditions and their caregivers.
    • Successful aging.
    • Advance care planning for health care decisions.

Seniors Connect Café

For all older adults.

Come enjoy a free cup of coffee or tea.

Drop in between 10:00am and 12:00pm.

Every 1st Thursday of the month at Homer Restaurant.

Every 2nd Thursday of the month at IHOP

See the poster located on our ‘News’ page for more details.

Would you like more information?

Please contact the Compassionate Neighbourhood Health Partners (CNHP) Society:
Phone: 604-798-2023
E-mail: cnhp.society@gmail.com