Vancouver care is usually apartment care. That means an elevator, a buzzer, a parkade, and a building manager who needs to know a caregiver is coming. It also means neighbours, which cuts both ways. Somebody notices when a resident has not been out in a week, and that is often how a family first hears there is a problem.

The practical work inside a Vancouver suite is smaller in scale than in a house. Meals, medication, help with dressing, company, a walk to the seawall or to the corner. What makes it work is punctuality and the same face each time, since a person living alone in a building has less slack in their day than someone with a house and a garden.

Coverage comes from the Surrey base at 3211 152 St. First conversation is free, at (236) 473-1021.

Home care in Vancouver: Vancouver home care
The full range of care types: types of care