Health At Home

At Goldstar Nursing and Homecare Services, our goal is to help people maintain their health, wellbeing and independence in the privacy of their own home. We also coordinate community base health and social service and provide support to the family and friends of our clients.

We are operated and supervised by Registered Nurses in the Province of Ontario Canada. Our care providers are committed, highly qualified, carefully selected individuals who are thoroughly screened, bonded, and properly insured. Most importantly, our Assistants are dependable, extraordinarily caring of others, Trained, Licensed, Certified and well paid.

Our Services

We strive to ensure a better quality of life for our clients and their families, by providing dependable and affordable care. We provide a full range of professional Health Care Services to enhance the quality of life.

• Nursing Care
• Alzheimer’s Disease Care/Dementia
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Acquired Brain Injury Care
• Companion and Sitter Services
• Foot Care
• Geriatric Care Escort Services
• Home Making (Meals, Laundry & Cleaning)
• Live- in / Live-out Care
• Palliative Care
• Rehabilitation
• Spinal cord Injury Care
• Non- emergency transportation service

Our services are available seven days a week and can range from a few hours daily to 24 hours. All of these services are available in home or wherever the person is living – such as a retirement home.

Nursing

Our services are client centered and are aimed at helping a client recover from an injury or illness or maintain optimum quality of life. We also provide postoperative care and instructions/education as indicated while helping the client to remain independent. Our qualified personnel are available to assist with:

• Administering medication
• Changing dressings
• Intravenous therapy
• Pain management
• Chronic disease management
• Foot care
• Ventilator care therapy
• Acquired serious head injury care
• Ambulation

Personal Care

• Assisting with grooming needs such as hair care, shaving, cleaning teeth and routine nail care. Supervising or assisting with tub baths, showers, sponge baths, and bed baths.
• Providing routine skin care such as applying lotion to dry skin.
• Assisting with dressing and undressing.
• Assisting with mobilization activities including turning, transferring, exercising, and walking.
• Assisting with toilet and/or commode needs.
• Assisting with eating or feeding.
• Assisting with self-administered medications by reminding client to take them at the prescribed time(s) and/or following up to ensure they are taken.
• Monitoring vital signs such as blood pressures, pulse and respiration.
• Providing respite and palliative care Monitoring and motivating regular diet plans.
• Transporting clients to social activities and appointments
• Monitoring clients’ safety, comfort and welfare by contacting them by phone or by making home visit(s).

Transportation Services

• Services aimed at providing transportation for home care clients
• Non- emergency hospital transportation to other facilities
• Transportation for clients returning home from hospital
• Transportation to daycare programs, doctors’ appointments, family visits in unusual circumstances.

Companion Services

Our Caregivers are available for individualized activities such as:

• Visiting
• Playing cards
• Reading a book
• Sharing a hobby
• Take walks in the neighbourhood.

Homemaking

This service provides assistance with the day-to-day tasks that are required in the upkeep of a household light housekeeping such as:

• Dusting
• Laundry
• Meal preparation

Foot Care

We have Nurses who are trained to provide advanced foot care for diabetic clients. Regular foot care will significantly improve comfort, mobility and the general health of your feet. Regular foot care prevents problems and assists in early identification and care if problems do occur and before it gets worse.