Health Expense and Medical Equipment

Provides supports for adult amputees. Includes:

• Financial Assistance
• Information and resources
• Navigation to various eligible services
• Peer support

Provides financial support to older adults living at home with ongoing care needs to pay for their unpaid caregiver. A primary caregiver could be a family member, friend, or neighbor. To enroll, both the care recipient and the primary caregiver must be eligible.

Once enrolled, the care recipients will receive between $250 to $1500 per month, depending on their household income. Once enrolled, no need reapply each year.

Note: Applicant is the care recipient. If the care recipient is unable to participate in the financial assessment due to illness, age, or another reason, an agent such as a family member or an attorney can act on their behalf.

• 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)

Provides up to 26 weeks of financial assistance for individuals who cannot work for medical reasons. The benefits pay 55% of earnings up to a maximum weekly amount.

• Out-of-province medical travel
• Co-payment for medications and more (Financial assistance is managed on a case-by-case basis, contact for more details)

Financial assistance to help cover specific costs related to their ALS diagnosis, including:

• Ongoing costs associated with having a feeding tube
• Special dietary needs
• Cost of transportation to certain events like medical appointments

Note: Financial assistance for drug prescriptions, counselling and private home care is not provided.

The provincial government is funding a one-year pilot program through the PEI Physiotherapy Association to provide free pelvic floor physiotherapy for underinsured or uninsured PEI residents.

Nine physiotherapy clinics across the province with physiotherapists who have specialized training and authorization will participate in the program and provide treatment for the following pelvic floor conditions:

• Urinary incontinence
• Emptying disorders of the bladder
• Faecal incontinence
• Emptying disorders of the bowel
• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Chronic pelvic pain
• Sexual dysfunction

• Medical aid to cover treatment costs
• Wage loss compensation
• Medical expense reimbursement for medications and more
• An impairment assessment
• Survivor benefits