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Our specially trained PSW team will provide round the clock care for your loved one in their own home, nursing home or hospital.Our Personal Support Workers are trained to deal with the dementia caused by Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia.Certified caregivers are trained to provide loving companionship and escort services to Doctors appointments, personal hygiene care, meals, light duty cleaning. Our senior homecare providers take care of all tasks associated with daily living and so much more. |
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| "71,000 Canadians under the age
of 65 are living with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.
Approximately 50,000 are 59 or younger." Alzheimer Society of
Canada
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia and affects one in 20 Canadians over 65 — about 290,000 people. The number rises to one in four in those over 85. Close to 75 per cent of Canadians with Alzheimer's are women. According to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, by 2050 the number of cases around the world will quadruple to around 106 million people. " CBC Source |
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