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April 25, 2013   ·   0 Comments

For some, finding the proper in home care is not always easy, but a new business called Daisy a Day Home Care is looking to help.

Owner Jennifer Buchar, 44, started her business to help provide in home care and help to those who need a hand.

Services range from traditional home care services to help make life easier, like dog walking, mail service, home cleaning, transportation to and from appointments (where someone can sit in with you to help take notes), prescription pick-up, personal hygiene, meal preparation and grocery shopping.

“Basically we’re a homecare concierge,” said Buchar. “We will do anything that a homeowner needs us to do while they are receiving care. And so far feedback has been phenomenal. Everybody has been very happy.”

Operating for about a year now, Daisy a Day also offers a hospital recovery program.

“With the hospital recovery, we go a little above and beyond. We will set up meals, pick-up from the hospital, we set up a recovery zone, we can put in some cameras and adapters, control the lights. If people need us to check in on them, we can have a two-way conversation, which is really important.”

This new service is called wellness watch, where Daisy a Day can monitor the health and needs of the client, by a non-invasive monitoring service.

“It’s a new service that incorporates technology into home care,” said Buchar. “It allows them to live independently longer. It’s an added way to drastically reduce the cost of home care and yet give them the safety.”

With her growing staff, Daisy a Day currently works with five to six clients per day and Buchar said her clientele is steadily growing as the need for her services increases in the area.

“One of the problems that we are facing with (Simcoe County) is that it is so widespread – we do not have a medical institution, for example, so I’ve really noticed my services have been very useful to Innisfil (specifically), because I can get people to and from appointments and also make sure that services that they need are being provided to them,” she said.

Daisy a Day’s main goal, according to Buchar, is to help people recuperate and live independently longer in their homes.

“I see a huge need in the community for affordable home care having had my own experience recovering from a hospital stay and struggling to get the rest I needed and take care of my children or even go to the store for milk,” she said.

With 23 years experience working with children with special needs and seniors in the community, Buchar said she has the background to help give people what they need.

Over those 23 years, Buchar has worked with the Toy Chest, a community based government funded toy library for parents, where she worked providing care for children with special needs in the community. She also worked with Victoria Village – a state of the art project which transformed an old hospital into a long-term care facility for independent living.

For more information about Daisy a Day, contact Jennifer Buchar, 705 716-7613, info@daisyadayhomecare.com or visit www.daisyadayhomecare.com

By Jeff Doner

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