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Adapting your home
Making a home more accessible
Here are some interesting sites for information on making renovations and modifications to make your home more accessible.
Home Adaptation - Assistance Service
The Logic Company is a home adaptation consulting and universally accessible housing management organization.
This organization offers support and advice throughout the home adaptation process: identification of environmental obstacles and recommendations on the adaptations and equipment necessary for the autonomy and safety of the person with a functional limitation. It also has lists of contractors for home adaptation.
Phone: Montreal (514-522-8284) or Quebec City (418-688-4305). Email : info@societelogique.org.
For more information on this organization, click here.
Accessible Housing - Guides
Home maintenance
Meals on wheels
Meals on Wheels is a home delivery service for seniors and people with temporary or permanent loss of independence. Meals on Wheels also provides home visits by volunteers.
To take advantage of the Meals on Wheels service, you can contact your local Community Service Centre (CLSC) or Volunteer Centre.
Regroupement PRASAB (Meals on Wheels and other volunteer food services)
PRASAB offers a list, by region, of its 154 member organizations that offer Meals on Wheels or other volunteer food services. By consulting their list, you will know who to contact in your area to find out about the eligibility requirements and costs associated with the service (both of which are established by the Meals on Wheels and differ from one organization to another).
Telephone: 514-382-0310 ext. 206 or 1-877-277-2722 (toll free)
Email: regroupement@prasab.org
To consult the list of organizations offering a Meals on Wheels service, click here.
Soup Kitchen of the Saint-Sauveur Valley
Service offered to single people of all ages, those who feel isolated and the needy. However, you are all welcome to come and share a full hot meal for 2$ (depending on your financial possibilities). Open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30am to 12:45pm. Located at 205, rue Principale, Saint-Sauveur (Québec), J0R 1R0. Email address : soupepop@cgocable.ca.
Home Help
Do you need help with housekeeping, grocery shopping, clothing care, or meal preparation? You can call upon a social economy enterprise in domestic help (EESAD) to help you.
If you wish to benefit from the services of an EESAD, you should know that there is a financial exemption program for domestic help services which is managed by the RAMQ (Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec).
If you are unable to move from your home because of your health condition, a physical disability or an intellectual disability, you can benefit from the following services: professional care and services, home help services, caregiver services, or technical support. The purpose of these services is to avoid or reduce the length of your hospitalization and to facilitate your return home after an illness or surgery.
To apply, you must contact the CLSC in your area.
Home Care
Here are some examples of companies that specialize in home health care.
Montreal, Quebec, Suroit
Services: medical care, personal care, domestic help and companionship, other services. Tel: 514-281-5050 or 1-866-830-5050 (Montreal); 418-683-2424 or 1-877-683-2424 (Quebec); 450-371-5398 or 1-866-315-8564 (Suroit)
Montreal, Quebec
Services: nursing, personal care, home support, companionship services.
Tel: 514-879-5657 or 1-800-322-9228 (Montreal); 418-650-6302 or 1-800-322-9228 (Quebec)
Cape Diamond Home Services Cooperative
Quebec
Services: help with domestic life, personal assistance, odd jobs
Tel: 418-683-3552
Quebec
Services: accompaniment, help with hygiene, help with meals, help with getting up and going to bed, help with dressing, light housekeeping, palliative care, nursing care...
Tel: 418-658-9153
Progressive Nursing Services Inc.
Montreal
Services: care for individuals.
Telephone: 514-335-1813
Brossard
Services: home support, end-of-life support, help with domestic tasks, support with daily activities, accompaniment and travel.
Telephone: 450 907-1591
Finding a home or residence
Searching for a home
List of housing cooperatives
Are you looking for a home in a housing cooperative? The Confédération québécoise des coopératives d'habitation (CQCH) offers you a list of housing cooperative federations by region.
Are you looking for subsidized co-op housing in the Private Non-Profit Program (PNP) in Montreal or Quebec City? The Confédération québécoise des coopératives d'habitation (CQCH) presents you the Central-Logement-Coop service and the instructions to file an application.
Accessible housing / Housing Information Service
The Société Logique promotes the concept of universal accessibility and offers a consultation service in accommodation. It offers a list of organizations that provide a housing information service in Quebec or that have a list of applicants and that regularly offer housing for rent in the Montreal and Quebec City areas. Tel: Montreal (514-522-8284) or Quebec City (418-688-4305). Email : info@societelogique.org
List of residences for seniors.
Search for a residence
Depending on your state of health and autonomy, you may be admitted to a public residential center or to another residential resource, such as an intermediate or family-type resource. If you are still living at home, you must contact the CLSC in your area. If you are unable to do so, a relative or friend can take care of it. If you are living in a hospital, the request will be made by the institution.
Seniors' Residences - Seniors' Housing
Aînés Hébergement offers a directory of residences for seniors and retirees in Quebec. Search by criteria: keywords, city, region, size, CLSC, association, corporation.
The Regroupement québécois des résidences pour aînés offers a directory of residences and CHSLD in Quebec. Search by criteria: autonomy, city, region and services offered.
Residences for Seniors - Health and Social Services Quebec
Health and Social Services Quebec offers a directory of residences (rooms and apartments) for seniors in Quebec. Search by criteria: name of the residence, municipality, territory and services offered. A geographical map is also available to visually locate available residences in your area. Simply frame the area you are interested in on the map.
Retirement homes - Residence 411
Residence 411 offers a directory of residences. Search by criteria: country, province and city.
Visa Vie offers a free consultation service to help you find a residence. Quebec's housing reference center for seniors (55 years and older): information, advice, residence search.
Residence: Making an informed choice
ROSES D'OR is a program that evaluates private residences with services for seniors in Quebec. Implemented in 12 regions of Quebec, it has made it possible to compile a directory of recognized residences in each of these regions.
Note: Once on their website, you will find the list of regional directories after the presentation of the Golden Roses Program, at the bottom of the page.
