Community Care Services

Family Care Homes

Family care homes are single family residences that provide supportive accommodation for up to two clients. Family care homes can be an alternative to a care facility for some individuals.

What are They Like?

Family care homes offer a home-like atmosphere, nutritious meals and housekeeping services, along with any required assistance with daily living activities, such as bathing, grooming and dressing.

Although family care homes are available throughout the province, they are more numerous in rural areas where their availability allows clients to remain in their own communities.

Who Uses Family Care Homes?

Family care homes are for seniors and people with disabilities who:

• require a more individualized approach to their care than is available in a residential care facility; or
• have an immediate need for residential care and are unable to find other suitable alternatives; or
• find the care environment at a residential care facility is not compatible with their religious, ethnic or cultural background or lifestyle; or
• need short-term assistance upon leaving hospital but are not ready to return to living in their own home.