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Support services for caregivers of older adults. Includes respite, day programs, support groups, and financial assistance.

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Online and in-person information, education and resources about dementia for individuals living with dementia, caregivers, and family members.
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Provides in-person and online support groups for caregivers, friends and family members of individuals living with dementia. In-person support groups are held in Charlottetown, O'Leary, Summerside, and Montague. Features of meetings include:

  • Exchanging stories and making friends
  • Accessing the most current information about dementia
  • Learning and sharing practical tips
  • Decreasing feelings of loneliness and isolation
  • Finding a sense of hope
  • Connecting with others who understand



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Provides counselling services for individuals living with dementia and/or family caregivers through telephone support, family interventions, and one-on-one sessions.
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Provides free online learning modules that help caregivers prepare and provide care as illness advances. Topics include:

  • Strategies for difficult conversations
  • Video demonstrations of caregiving tasks
  • Guidance for recognizing and managing symptoms
  • Suggestions for accessing programs and services
  • Ways to care for yourself
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Provides a free online resource platform to educate, support, and empower parents caring for a seriously ill child and those who are experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. Chapters include:

  • Child
  • Family
  • Healthcare Team
  • School and community
  • Care and the end of life
  • Grief and Bereavement
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Online communities of people talking and sharing about living with a life-limiting illness, caring, loss and grief.
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Provides Caregiving Benefits through Employment Insurance. Eligible caregivers could receive financial assistance of up to 55% of their earnings, to a maximum of $638 a week. These benefits will help them take time away from work to provide care or support to a critically ill or injured person or someone needing end-of-life care.

Caregivers do not have to be related to or live with the person they are caring for but they must consider you to be like family. There are three types of caregiving benefits:
  • Family Caregiver Benefit for Children: Providing care to a critically ill or injured person under 18 years (maximum weeks payable up to 35 weeks)
  • Family Caregiver Benefit for Adults: Providing care to a critically ill or injured person 18 years or older(maximum weeks payable up to 15 weeks)
  • Compassionate Care Benefits: A person of any age who requires end-of-life care (maximum weeks payable up to 26 weeks)

Eligible caregivers can receive benefits during the 52 weeks following the date the person is certified by a medical doctor or nurse practitioner to be critically ill or injured or in need of end-of-life care. Eligible caregivers can take the weeks of benefits within this timeframe either all at once or in separate periods.

The weeks of benefits can be shared by eligible caregivers, either at the same time or one after another.
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Provides education and support for individuals with living dementia and/or family caregivers from the time of diagnosis through ongoing treatment.
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Provides education sessions to help people living with dementia, and their family members and friends to live as well as possible with the disease. Participants have opportunities to learn and share with others who are affected by dementia. The sessions include:

  • A comprehensive overview of Alzheimer's and other dementias
  • Skills needed to provide day to day care
  • How to understand changes in behaviour, personality, and communication
  • Coping strategies
  • Available resources and support
  • Care in the later stages
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Provides group and individual activities suited to seniors' personal abilities and interests while providing respite for family/friend caregivers. Some locations offer personal care services.

Note: Participants must arrange their own transportation to and from the program
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