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Seniors and Caregivers Support

FSA Seniors and Caregivers Support:
Program description

The Seniors and Caregivers Support Service Unit at Family Service Association of Toronto provides social work services to older people and caregivers. Our work includes counselling, group work, advocacy, training and educational sessions on a variety of topics such as aging and memory loss, anger and guilt, how to access community resources, abuse of older adults, etc.

You can come to our office for counselling, attend support groups or educational seminars, talk to a trained counsellor by telephone or arrange for us to come to your home. We are able to provide counselling in Mandarin, Spanish and English.

As an older adult, we will help you with:

• Dealing with an abusive relationship
• Learning to cope with difficult medical conditions like Alzheimer's Disease, stroke and depression
• Learning to live with change and loss
• Accessing community support services such as day programs and meals-on-wheels
• Speaking out and making an impact on issues that affect your quality of life

We also provide counselling services for those facing issues such as:

• Dealing with chronic or degenerative illness
• Stress in family relationships
• Bereavement
• The uprootedness and difficulty of adapting to a new culture at an advanced age
• Caregiver stress
• Elder abuse

SCSS Information and Education Sessions

We also offer information and education sessions on a range of topics including:

• The normal aging process
• The caregiver role
• Communication
• Community services
• Stress management for caregivers
• Positive aspects of aging
• Coping with change and loss
• Healthy caregiving
• Anger and Guilt
• Aging and memory loss
• Pre-retirement planning

 

If you think our services can be of benefit to any seniors and family members you come into contact with or would like more information, please feel free to Service Access Unit at 416.595.9618

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