Joyful Moments Elder Care Services

Joyful Moments Elder Care Services Joyful Moments Elder Care Services provides person centered companionship, respite and care to seniors in the Victoria area, with a focus on dementia care.

Joyful Moments Elder Care Services provides person centered companionship and care to seniors in the Victoria area, with a focus on dementia care. Kate is a social worker with 20+years of experience making connections and building helping relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, including those with mental health and addictions issues, Alzheimer's and other dementias. Kate has a compreh

ensive tool kit of skills and experience supporting elders to be independent and safe in their environments while providing meaningful engagement with the world around them. Services offered include: companion visits to address isolation, outings in the community, scenic drives, accompaniment to medical appointments, medication monitoring and administration, light housekeeping, meal preparation, shopping, errands, home and vehicle maintenance, financial oversight and management. Kate works with seniors and their families to determine the specific needs of their loved ones, and provides regular ongoing assessment and feedback to families. Kate strives to enhance opportunities for her clients to experience Joyful Moments throughout their day. She will work with Elders and their families to design activities specific to the individual's likes, passions and abilities, activities meant to enhance one's sense of well-being, promote physical activity, stimulate cognition, and speak to one's soul--meaningful engagement is shown to reduce feelings of isolation, boredom, depression and anxiety which often corresponds to decreasing challenging behaviors and enhancing one's enjoyment of life. Joyful Moments Elder Care Services understands the joys and challenges of caregiving and offers in-home respite for caregivers. Kate will assume the tasks of running the household, including house cleaning, meal preparation, shopping, errands, pet care, managing the mail, helping with bill payments as well as providing care and support for loved ones so that caregivers can have a meaningful break. Having a regularly scheduled break helps to address ongoing caregiver burden, allows family members to catch up on their sleep, to see friends, attend appointments and accomplish tasks that can seem impossible when juggling the demands of caregiving.

03/24/2025
The Joymobiles are parked until road conditions improve. An unplanned but much appreciated winter staycation! And some j...
02/04/2025

The Joymobiles are parked until road conditions improve. An unplanned but much appreciated winter staycation! And some joyful soul marked the cars with some ❤️!

Important information about UTIs.
12/01/2024

Important information about UTIs.

If you notice a sudden behavior change in someone with Alzheimer's or dementia, it's possible that he could have a urinary tract infection (UTI).

Very interesting
10/11/2024

Very interesting

Semaglutide was approved in 2017 as an injectable diabetes; there are several preliminary studies researching if it can protect against dementia.

Joy the robotic cat had a visit with my friend with Alzheimer's. She couldn't resist her meows and purrs and it gave her...
10/11/2024

Joy the robotic cat had a visit with my friend with Alzheimer's. She couldn't resist her meows and purrs and it gave her hands something comforting to do.

Beauty day at Cattle Point with my 101yr old friend. And a shot of my new rear view mirror Squatch
10/07/2024

Beauty day at Cattle Point with my 101yr old friend. And a shot of my new rear view mirror Squatch

My friend and I spent the first day of autumn walking around the Selkirk Village. So many amazing sights to enjoy, inclu...
09/21/2024

My friend and I spent the first day of autumn walking around the Selkirk Village. So many amazing sights to enjoy, including the hottub boats taking a Saturday morning cruise on the Gorge. Joy the robotic cat gets plenty of attention from dogs, kids and their people 😀

A woman donated this interactive cat for people with Alzheimer's to my business several months ago. I've finally found t...
09/07/2024

A woman donated this interactive cat for people with Alzheimer's to my business several months ago. I've finally found the ideal new friend to foster her. I've named her Joy and she's the purrfect company. She purrs, meows, wiggles her ears when you talk to her, wags her tail and lifts her paw for kisses.

Today we took Joy for a walk around Selkirk Village, sat and watched the activities on the Gorge. Joy got lots of attention from dogs walking by!

Working on Saturdays has my heart full.

08/13/2024
Some very good info. New technologies can help keep loved ones safe
08/13/2024

Some very good info. New technologies can help keep loved ones safe

Steps family caregivers can take to keep loved ones safe

08/13/2024

One of the things I want you guys to know is that even if someone is in hospice, you can decide the level of intervention of treatment. Comfort care sounds nice, of course I want them to be comfortable, but that means that they get nothing. No treatment with antibiotics if they get pneumonia or a bladder infection, they only get pain meds.

For some people, that's very appropriate if they're not enjoying their life at all. If they have no quality of life, then it's probably time for comfort care. But for a man who said "No, I want to go home, I want to be doing bingo," to stop his antibiotics and just give him Morphine?

Luckily, his daughters, who are nurses, challenged that. They ended up finishing treating him with oral antibiotics, and he did well for another nine or 10 months.

So I think that it's important to have that discussion. To learn more: https://www.drlizgeriatrics.com/

08/13/2024

Did you know that over a lifetime, around one in five elders will fall and have a fracture? Falls are a major risk factor for elders because they're more likely than younger adults to experience isolated hip, knee or ankle sprains or broken bones due to accidents and falls.

Some people are lucky and do not fracture anything (touch wood that’s you, yes?).

My tips? When your elder starts to become more unsteady on their feet, get them to a physical therapist who will provide an exercise program to increase balance and stability. Plus, if they use a cane, try and encourage them to use a walker, it's more stable.

More tips can be found on my blog at: https://ow.ly/Z2Cx50SWrrG

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