Good Consolation Homecare affords companion to specialised care in addition to many different helps
About six years in the past, Good Consolation’s founder and CEO, Marcel Zierfuss, was instructed that his beloved father-in-law had Lewy physique dementia and Parkinson’s illness. With this prognosis, Zierfuss and his spouse had been thrust in a single day into the world of homecare in Ontario.
“Navigating the care system, we had no idea,” defined Zierfuss. “Trying to understand the options, finding care, getting care, that was hard enough. But once we started getting care for him, we realised we were dealing with a broken homecare system.”
In accordance with Zierfuss, many suppliers they handled handled homecare like a transaction. “It was like a staffing agency, just providing warm bodies. There were different people every time, there was a lack of consistency and quality, and a lack of training re dementia and specific care needs.”
The ultimate straw was when Zierfuss’ father-in-law had a close to life-ending fall whereas below the supervision of a homecare PSW.
“I said, enough is enough. It is time for better homecare!”
Zierfuss launched Good Consolation House Care in early 2023, with a mission of remodeling dwelling care: offering dwelling care that comes with compassion. Customized, dependable care that comes with a private contact. “This is not a transaction but a personal relationship with the loved one and the family,” emphasised Zierfuss.
Marcel Zierfuss, his spouse Jane Apor and her father
Good Consolation began with 3 folks and during the last virtually 2 years has scaled to 100 staff members, nurses, wellness companions, and PSWs.
“We really are a one-stop care company, not just a homecare agency,” stated Zierfuss. “We provide accessible transportation with PSW support, industry leading care products that we can recommend, and we also do rentals and installations of needed supports as well. We want to help ensure that loved ones are safe and sound at home, and to ensure that family members can access everything they need to care for their loved ones, through one phone call to us.”
Good Consolation additionally has partnerships with yoga courses, diet specialists, therapeutic massage therapists and different helps.
‘We also have a program, ‘Care it Forward’, the place we take donations from households or organizations of unused and not wanted care tools like beds, canes, walkers, and wheelchairs, and redistribute them to folks in want,” expanded Zierfuss.
Along with the entire above, Good Consolation offers dwelling care choices starting from companion care, to specialised care with educated nurses for palliative or post-surgical wants. Charges vary from $38 to $64 per hour, with a three-hour minimal shift.
Good Consolation not too long ago expanded into central Ontario, providing care to residents in Collingwood, Wasaga, Thornbury, Meaford, Owen Sound, Creemore, Barrie, Orillia, and Gravenhurst.
“Bottom line?” stated Zierfuss. “We want to help families navigate care. We want to help them get the right care, make the right decisions, and we want to bring the right resources to them. We want to empower families and make it possible for them to have their loved ones safely at home.”
For extra data on Good Consolation, name 705-888-2400, electronic mail [email protected] or go to the web site at www.goodcomfort.ca.
Workplace hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to five p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: and Sunday, 12 to six p.m.
