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Community Support Services

The Glebe Centre Community Programs staff arrange many essential services to make living at home a little easier for older adults and adults with disabilities.

Service Arrangement for Home Support

Staff manage a directory of businesses and individuals who provide services within the home. Staff screen all the home support workers and businesses to ensure they are insured & have a Police Reference Check for Working with Vulnerable Sector. Staff assess the clients’ needs and provide a list of workers or businesses. All the work is supervised by the client or their family and the worker or business is paid directly by the client or their family.

Home support workers and businesses can provide assistance with light housekeeping, respite, meal preparations, companionship, supervision, yard work minor repairs, and snow removal. Workers utilize the clients’ vacuum, cleaning products, other tools and products.

These community programs are available to older adults and adults with physical disabilities in the following neighbourhoods:

The Glebe
Old Ottawa South
Ottawa East
Heron Park
Riverside Park
Hunt Club (west of Bank Street)
Carleton Heights

If you live outside these areas we provide assistance to locate the appropriate Community Support Service agency for your particular area.

Need a Lift?

Transportation

The Glebe Centre Community Programs staff arrange transportation service to medical appointments by using a paid driver in a community van or by a volunteer in the volunteer’s vehicle. Our community vans are equipped with some accessibility features for those with mobility challenges.

For more information about our transportation service, or to initiate a referral, please phone during regular business hours or find services.

Find services

If you drive, own a car, and have some free time in your week to offer transportation to a medical appointment for a senior, please contact our volunteer coordinator at 613 238 2727 at ext 353.

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Warm Conversations, Meaningful Moments

Friendly Visiting by Volunteers

Screened volunteers offer friendly check in telephone calls or a periodic visit in the seniors’ home for companionship and friendship to socially isolated, cognitively intact seniors. For more information, please contact us.

For more information about this program, or to initiate a referral please contact us by phone during regular business hours or find services.

Find services

If you like socializing over a cup of coffee, love to chat about shared interests and have some free time in your week to offer friendly visiting to a senior, please contact us!

Adult Day Programs

Time Well Spent

We offer two adult day programs at The Glebe Centre Community Programs. One is for those who are frail, at risk of isolation or need extra support to socialize with others. The other one is for those who are living with early to middle stages of dementia or other cognitive challenges.

Learn more about our Adult Day Programs or find services.

Trishaw program

Cycling Without Age

The Glebe Centre Community Programs is a member of the Cycling Without Age (CWA) community, and we know first-hand the value and benefits of sharing a bike ride around the neighborhood or along the canal to a scenic park with older adults comfortably seated in our Trishaw, a three-wheeled battery-powered passenger bike. Passengers feel a sense of freedom and joy as they exchange smiles with passersby and chat with their volunteer pilot.

If you are a community member who likes bike riding and interested in addressing social isolation and loneliness of older adults, consider volunteering with the CWA program at The Glebe Centre Community Programs. All volunteers receive training on the Trishaw. (Link to volunteer page)