THE DAILY DURHAM LOCAL GUIDE
Explore senior & accessibility services across Durham Region.
ParaMed Home Health Care's Oshawa branch, at Oshawa Centre (419 King St W, Suite 171), has served the area for over 40 years. Services include personal home care, senior companion care, Alzheimer's home care, palliative care, and respite care. The office lists admin hours Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm, with care available 24/7. Phone (905) 433-7600.
Pharmasave Courtice is a locally owned pharmacy at 2727 Courtice Road with a dedicated Home Healthcare department for aging-in-place and mobility needs: bathroom safety products, compression stockings, wound care supplies and everyday living aids, plus an equipment rental program (crutches, breast pumps). The pharmacy also offers ostomy supplies, medication compounding, medication management and reviews, diabetes and heart-health support, travel health services, and home delivery with home visits. Store hours: Monday to Thursday 9:00 am-8:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am-7:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am-3:00 pm.
Port Perry Place is a long-term care home in Port Perry, operated by Southbridge Care Homes and described on its official site as the sole long-term care provider in the Township of Scugog. It offers 24-hour nursing and personal care under registered nurse supervision, dietary services built around each resident's individual needs, a broad program of activities, and physiotherapy. Residents also have access to visiting partners in care such as dentists, pharmacists, optometrists and foot care providers. The home holds an Accreditation Canada accreditation from 2019 and offers tours by appointment through its on-site contact form.
The Port Perry Seniors Club is a volunteer-driven social and learning centre for adults aged 50 and over in downtown Port Perry. Meeting at the Latcham Centre at the foot of Queen Street overlooking Lake Scugog, the club welcomes roughly four to five hundred members each year and runs weekday activities from Monday to Friday, including yoga and gentle exercise, games and sports, line dancing, and woodcarving. Its stated purpose is simple: meeting new friends, learning new skills, and enjoying life.
Rapha Residential and Community Living Inc. (RaphaRCL), based at 601 Galahad Drive, Oshawa, operates a respite home offering temporary short-term stays, a staff-model group home, and staffing solutions supplying RNs, RPNs, PSWs, and DSWs. Phone +1 (647) 460-9908.
Right at Home Durham provides in-home care across Durham Region from its Oshawa office at 111 Simcoe St N, Suite 200. Services include companion care, personal care, and nursing care, with specialty care for Alzheimer's, diabetes, and Parkinson's. The office is part of the Right at Home network, whose Canadian operations note CARF accreditation. Phone (289) 275-0030.
Royal Heights is a vibrant independent 55+ rental community on Adelaide Avenue East in Oshawa designed for active, self-sufficient adults. It is explicitly not a retirement home or assisted-living facility: residents have their own private one-bedroom, one-bedroom-plus-den or two-bedroom residence with heat, water, air conditioning, hydro, window coverings, in-suite laundry, geothermal climate control and a private walkout balcony all included in the rent. Amenities include a saltwater swimming pool, fitness and wellness spaces, garden beds, movie theatre, salon and spa, billiards, darts, card and games areas, puzzle room, library, party and conference rooms, underground parking and secure building access. Organized activities, social gatherings, games and seasonal celebrations are all optional, and pets are welcome subject to building policy.
Senior Helpers - Durham Region provides non-medical in-home care for seniors from its Pickering office at 650 Kingston Road, Suite 206. Services include respite care, Alzheimer's and dementia care, Parkinson's care, companion care and home help such as light housekeeping, meal preparation, errands, shopping and laundry, personal care including bathing, dressing, toileting, medication reminders and incontinence care, palliative care, and care coordination including escorts to appointments and senior events. No referral is required and the company offers a complimentary care consultation, serving Durham Region. No business hours are published on the official site.
A locally owned accessibility super store in Oshawa, run by Lesley Westbury and Steve Fish, Silver Cross Durham sells and services a wide range of home mobility and accessibility equipment. Their lineup includes straight and curved stairlifts, wheelchair lifts, inclined platform lifts, through-floor lifts, ceiling track lifts and portable patient lifts, plus wheelchairs, power wheelchairs, transfer chairs, rollators, walkers, mobility scooters, lift chairs, home hospital beds, therapeutic surfaces, pressure-guard mattresses, roll-in showers, bath lifts, shower chairs, commode chairs and daily living aids. The team offers free in-home assessments, delivery and equipment setup, installation and repair of stairlifts and other mobility equipment, photo measuring for curved stairlifts, deck and porch lift installation and site preparation, and barrier-free renovations, and is an ADP-approved vendor. Open Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, with evenings and weekends by appointment.
The South Pickering Seniors' Club (also listed as the South Pickering Senior Citizens Club) is a 55+ seniors' recreation club for Pickering residents, based at the East Shore Community Centre, 910 Liverpool Road in Pickering, Ontario. Activities include billiards, pickleball, badminton, shuffleboard, card games (euchre, bridge, poker, cribbage, pinochle, canasta), darts, tai chi, fitness classes, line dancing, ballroom dancing, table tennis, carpet bowling, handicrafts, a monthly blood pressure clinic on the first Tuesday, Digital TLC one-on-one computer help, club meetings, day trips and bus trips, dances, and an honour-system library. Membership dues are published in the on-site renewal form. No club open hours are published; activities run on a day-by-day schedule.
Total Access Solutions Ltd is an accessibility equipment and installation company based at 906 Brock Road, Unit 7, in Pickering, Ontario, with more than 30 years in business. It sells, installs, services and repairs stairlifts (new, used, rental, buyback and try-before-you-buy), porchlifts, custom, portable and modular ramps, railings, vehicle lifts, pool lifts, ceiling lifts, floor lifts, transfer devices, home care beds and surfaces, and grab bars. The company also performs bathroom safety conversions and full renovations, and offers free in-home and virtual consultations with expert installation and stocked repair parts.
Oshawa-based accessibility contractor specializing in bathroom safety. Trenworks supplies and installs stainless steel grab bars and other safety accessory aids using professional anchoring and waterproofing hardware rated for up to 500 lbs, working on wall surfaces from tile and marble to drywall and concrete. They also perform low-step walk-in bathtub cutout conversions with a removable door option, a service approved and preferred by Canada FlexHousing Standards. Free in-home safety assessments and quotes are offered, and most assessment-and-installation jobs can be completed in a single visit. The Oshawa voice and text line is 905-436-5965; a toll-free line (1-855-343-4514) is also available.
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