Volunteers provide in-home visits to individuals and families navigating the journey of life-limiting illness and end-of-life.

Volunteer visits offer:

• Companionship and emotional support: Sharing stories, enjoying moments and activities together, or simply being there.
• Support for caregivers: Giving caregivers a moment to step back, take a breath, or focus on other needs within the home.
• Connection with dignity: Every interaction honors your wishes and respects your needs.

Accepts volunteers

• Home care providers
• Companion/personal support/errands
• Downsizing/decluttering/house cleaning
• Grocery delivery and shopping services
• Meal programs and prepared meal delivery
• Mobile services (such as blood collection, dental hygiene, foot care, hair services)
• Personal alert services and home health equipment
• Respite care
• Transportation
• Other support services

• Traditional main courses such as meat, potatoes, and vegetables
• Homemade soups
• Homemade bread rolls and biscuits
• Homemade desserts

Direct Family Support for Children (DFSC) and Enhanced Family Support for Children (EFSC) provides funding to enable families to support their child with a disability at home.

DFSC and EFSC provides funding for the purchase of respite services to assist with scheduled breaks for family caregivers. An enhanced funding component may be available for children and families who meet EFSC eligibility criteria.

Provides individualized funding to participants living at home with their families or who live independently with support from their families or personal support networks.

The funding is used to:

• Purchase supports specific to a participant's disability-related needs and goals
• Promote the participant's independence, self-reliance, and social inclusion
• Offer an alternative to, prevent, or delay a participant's placement in a DSP-funded residential support option

A community based option that provides funding for hours of support services from a service provider, based on the assessed needs and circumstances of an eligible participant who is semi-independent and requires support to live on their own.

Volunteers may be available to assist people with some essential errands they may need help with in the Truro area. Includes picking up groceries, prescriptions, etc. Please note: Volunteers do deliveries on Wednesdays and Fridays only.

• Home care providers
• Companion/personal support/errands
• Downsizing/decluttering/house cleaning
• Grocery delivery and shopping services
• Meal programs and prepared meal delivery
• Mobile services (such as blood collection, dental hygiene, foot care, hair services)
• Personal alert services and home health equipment
• Respite care
• Transportation
• Other support services

• Home care providers
• Companion/personal support/errands
• Downsizing/decluttering/house cleaning
• Grocery delivery and shopping services
• Meal programs and prepared meal delivery
• Mobile services (such as blood collection, dental hygiene, foot care, hair services)
• Personal alert services and home health equipment
• Respite care
• Transportation
• Other support services

• Personal/hygienic care
• Mobility assistance
• Meal preparation
• Light housekeeping

Home-based program that improves in-home safety and function so that people over the age of 65 having difficulty with activities of daily living can remain independent in their own homes longer.

The team consists of an occupational therapist, a nurse and a handy-worker who will work with the individual over a period of four to five months to identify and address areas in their home and in their day-to-day life that can be improved so they can remain in their own home safely.

Each follow-up visit will build on the one before, focused on increasing the individual's quality of life, safety and independence at home by learning new skills, exercises and how to work with additional tools/equipment/home modifications and repairs.

Services include:

• Recommending exercises to improve strength and mobility
• Reviewing medications
• Rearranging furniture
• Removing carpets
• Moving frequently used items so they are easier to reach
• Securing shelves
• Improving lighting
• Installing grab bars, raised toilet seats, lever faucets and lever door handles
• Repairing steps and other items

The program is offered by VON in partnership with Nova Scotia's Department of Seniors and Long-Term Care and on behalf of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

• Personal/hygienic care
• Mobility assistance
• Meal preparation
• Light housekeeping

Direct Family Support for Children (DFSC) and Enhanced Family Support for Children (EFSC) provides funding to enable families to support their child with a disability at home.

DFSC and EFSC provides funding for the purchase of respite services to assist with scheduled breaks for family caregivers. An enhanced funding component may be available for children and families who meet EFSC eligibility criteria.

Provides individualized funding to participants living at home with their families or who live independently with support from their families or personal support networks.

The funding is used to:

• Purchase supports specific to a participant's disability-related needs and goals
• Promote the participant's independence, self-reliance, and social inclusion
• Offer an alternative to, prevent, or delay a participant's placement in a DSP-funded residential support option

A community based option that provides funding for hours of support services from a service provider, based on the assessed needs and circumstances of an eligible participant who is semi-independent and requires support to live on their own.

• Helps organize and maintain suitable housing of members
• Provides support and assists members with all challenges of independent living
• Provides learning opportunities for members that will increase skills and independence
• Provides social support and a social network for members
• Liases between members and their families

Direct Family Support for Children (DFSC) and Enhanced Family Support for Children (EFSC) provides funding to enable families to support their child with a disability at home.

DFSC and EFSC provides funding for the purchase of respite services to assist with scheduled breaks for family caregivers. An enhanced funding component may be available for children and families who meet EFSC eligibility criteria.

Provides individualized funding to participants living at home with their families or who live independently with support from their families or personal support networks.

The funding is used to:

• Purchase supports specific to a participant's disability-related needs and goals
• Promote the participant's independence, self-reliance, and social inclusion
• Offer an alternative to, prevent, or delay a participant's placement in a DSP-funded residential support option

A community based option that provides funding for hours of support services from a service provider, based on the assessed needs and circumstances of an eligible participant who is semi-independent and requires support to live on their own.

• Palliative care medications
• Special foods
• Rental of in-home equipment
• Hiring caregivers for respite care
• Ambulance fees
• Medical supplies