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Respite Care

If you are currently in the role of caregiver, you understand how this role is about shifting your focus to make someone else’s needs the priority in your life. It is true that caring for a loved one can be a rewarding experience, however, depending on the level of care required, you may rarely be able to step outside of your supporting role.

How can we help?

Respite care is about helping you maintain a healthy balance so that you can continue to enjoy your own quality of life and maintain your own health. It is okay to need and want to take a break from the caregiving role. This break can be for a few hours, few days or even a week or more.

Respite care is a transferable service which means that it can be provided at home, in a seniors’ retirement community, or a long-term care facility. Respite care means someone else will temporarily step in to fulfill your caregiver responsibilities. It is the next best thing to you being there.

Respite Care Can Include:

  • Personal Care
  • Companionship
  • Light Housekeeping
  • Meal Preparation

Respite care allows you to recharge, reduce your stress and avoid caregiver burnout.

It also enables you to spend time with other family members, take a vacation, or take the time you need to handle your own daily affairs. A break from the caregiver role also means that you may return to the role refreshed, with a positive outlook.

For the over 28% of Canadians caring for a loved one, respite care allows them to take a break from caregiving. Providing assistance to the caregiver allows them to stay healthy, resulting in improved quality of the time they spend with their loved one.

Whether it’s for a few hours, a few days or even a week, respite care can provide caregivers with an extra hand or with some time off to take care of themselves. Respite care can improve the long-term functioning of both the caregiver and the person receiving care as well as prevent crisis situations, including elder abuse.

Our Caregivers

Safety and Security
You Can Trust

We believe in the importance of aging at home — in the places we know and love, surrounded by the communities that give us comfort and connection. We are proud to help make this possible for more and more of our neighbours and friends across Cape Breton.

Your family can have peace of mind knowing that every New Dawn caregiver is:

Bonded and Screened

With full Criminal Record and Vulnerable Sector checks

Highly Trained

Including First Aid/CPR, Food Handlers Certification, and Teepa Snow Dementia Care training

Professionally Supported

With 24/7 access to a nurse for guidance and oversight

Fully Insured

For safety, accountability, and protection

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Free In-Home Assessment

Not sure where
to start?

Do you have questions about how New Dawn Homecare can help? Or need guidance to better understand your care options at home, a facility or hospital?

At New Dawn Homecare, we understand that accepting help can be overwhelming. Whether you or a loved one has experienced a health issue or just need an extra set-of-hands to help with day-to-day tasks, New Dawn Homecare has been providing compassionate in home care to CBRM residents since 1988.

Call us today

to arrange a free in-home medical assessment with our nursing staff

902-539-9560
newdawn@newdawn.ca
37 Nepean St, Sydney NS

Eymu’ti’k Unama’ki

Eymu’ti’k Unama’ki, newte’jk l’uiknek te’sikl Mi’kmawe’l maqamikall mna’q iknmuetumittl. Ula maqamikew wiaqi-wikasik Wantaqo’tie’l aqq I’lamatultimkewe’l Ankukamkewe’l Mi’kmaq aqq Eleke’wuti kisa’matultisnik 1726ek.

We are in Unama’ki, one of the seven traditional and unceded ancestral territories of the people of Mi’kma’ki. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship which the Mi’kmaq first signed with the British Crown in 1726.

Ketu’-keknuite’tmek aqq kepmite’tmek ula tela’matultimkip wjit maqamikew ta’n etekl mtmo’taqne’l. Ula tett, ula maqamikek, etl-lukutiek l’tunen aqq apoqntmnen apoqnmasimk aqq weliknamk Unama’ki.

We wish to recognize and honour this understanding of the lands on which we reside. It is from here, on these lands, that we work to create and support a culture of self-reliance and vibrancy.

Your Gift Will Be Matched Until December 31st

AuCoin Renovations is matching all donations to the New Dawn Youth and Family Centre up to $10,000.

Glace Bay’s young people deserve a safe, welcoming place to learn, grow, and belong. The new Youth & Family Centre is being built for them, and your gift can help open its doors.

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