You can’t be there all the time, but you know your parent or family member needs someone to be with them. They don’t necessarily need nursing care or help bathing and eating, but they need to be engaged and stimulated. They need a professional and qualified person come to the home and help them stay physically, socially and mentally active.

• Someone to talk to and enjoy life with
• Someone who is properly educated and experienced
• Someone who can help your senior get the most out of life
• Someone to be there while you go out

And you can’t do it all yourself.

If you are looking for companion services for a senior, Jackson Therapeutic Recreation provides staff with the best combination of skills, education and experience. Contact us today to tell us about the senior in your life.

• Our services are tax deductible as a medical expense
• Our therapists are college and university educated and have spent their careers helping seniors stay happy and engaged in life
• We conduct thorough assessments and provide detailed reports for every visit we have with your senior
• We work to understand your senior’s unique strengths, abilities and needs and develop companionable and enjoyable activities
• These activities can also be therapeutic in nature and address goals that will help your senior stay independent and age successfully in their home
• We can work with any kind of health issue, such as: Alzheimer’s or dementia, Parkinson’s disease, results of a stroke, brain injury, physical disability, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, mental health issue, isolation, arthritis, or challenging behaviours
• You can set a regular schedule of visits, and the same recreation therapist comes every time
• We can provide service in multiple languages
• All our staff are insured and have police checks

What makes a recreation therapist the best choice?

• Our recreation therapists have gone to college and university specifically to learn how to help seniors get the most out of life – this is their core focus in their career and work
• They study the aging process, and how to overcome the barriers and challenges that can come with aging, and how to help seniors successfully engage in meaningful and enjoyable recreation and leisure activities
• They can design physical activities, plan social outings, design mental and cognitively therapeutic exercises, all in a warm and friendly environment
• Other agencies provide personal support workers (PSW) whose training and core focus is personal care like bathing and wound care, not meaningful and therapeutic activities

If you want the best possible companionship for your senior use the people with the best qualifications and training – recreation therapists. Contact us today for a free introductory assessment.

Our services are tax deductible as a medical expense

VAC health identification cards are accepted

Free Introductory Assessment

Benefits of this service to our clients

• Regain a sense of independence
• Improved strength and balance for falls prevention
• Learn new skills and develop new interests
• Ability to “age in place” and not have to move to a care facility
• Increase in overall life satisfaction
• Improved social networks
• Develop an internal sense of motivation
• Relief from the periods of anxiety that can accompany Alzheimer’s and other dementias
• Better retention and access to memories
• Slowing down cognitive decline
• Learn how to participate in favourite activities in new or adapted ways
• Have choices in how time is spent
• Learn to manage better with a disease or health condition

If you have a specific benefit in mind that you want or goal you want to achieve please contact us. We can design a program to address any situation.

Benefits for families of our clients

• Peace of mind that comes with knowing that while you can’t be there, a qualified health professional is
• Knowledge that the therapy programs we deliver are custom tailored specifically to your senior’s unique strengths, interests and needs
• Satisfaction in watching your senior setting goals and achieving them
• Pleasure of seeing your family member smile and enjoy what they are doing
• Relief for the entire family as your family member’s quality of living improves
• Education from reading our detailed reports of each session and ongoing communication with our knowledgeable staff

Every family has their own story and unique set of needs and desires. We have been helping individuals and families all over Southern Ontario since 2003. Call us today to tell us how we can make a difference in your life.