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We offer in-home for all ages. From pediatric care to senior care, we can help you with a wide range

Ohana Care is a Home Care Services provider operating in Calgary and the surrounding areas. Our team comes to you to offer the best in home care, support services, foot care treatments, companionship, and free in-home assessments. Ohana provides services in the clients' own home, at assisted living facilities, in retirement residences, acute care settings, long-term care, community spaces, corporate settings, medical clinics, and at our clinic. Our facility in Royal Oak boasts seven separate foot care stations including five reclining chairs, a bariatric recliner, and two empty stations for wheelchair bound clients.

10/12/2026

"Promise me you'll never put me in a nursing home."

If you've heard it, you know how heavy that promise feels.

Dr. Allen Power shares the best response he's come across. One daughter told her mother: "I can promise you, Mom, that I will do whatever is best for your health and well-being at that time."

His advice for knowing when it's time for more support: check the seven glasses of well-being for your loved one, and the seven for yourself. If both are running empty and you can't see how to refill them, that's the signal.

It's not a failure to ask for help. None of us is independent. When your network isn't enough, you widen it.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x9bcX0

10/09/2026

🏡Live-in care or 🕰️24-hour care: what's the difference?

Both let your loved one get support at home. What's different is how the caregiver's time is set up.

Live-in care: one health care aide lives in your home and works 40 scheduled hours a week, booked around when help is needed. They stay overnight but are off duty.

24-hour care: two or three aides rotate in 12-hour or 8-hour shifts, so someone is awake and available all day and all night.

Care plans can change as needs change. Watch our 90-second explainer, or call and we'll walk through your situation.

https://hubs.la/Q04zMt_H0

10/08/2026

Almost fifty minutes into a conversation about dementia care, medication came up for the first time.

Dr. Allen Power thinks that's exactly how it should go.

His view: antipsychotics are a problem, but they're not the root problem. They're a symptom of care that doesn't support a person's well-being. Fix the well-being and the need for the pill fades.

When are they justified? Imminent risk, no other option in the moment. That's an emergency response. Short-term. Meant to stop.

Melissa's takeaway for Alberta: let's call it emergency use, not appropriate use.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x99t40

10/08/2026

Attending the ACCA trade show today? Visit Ohana Care and Melissa Therrien at booth 119.

Stop by to say hello and connect with us about supporting older adults and their families through personalized home care. We look forward to meeting you!

10/06/2026

A thought experiment from Melissa.

Send a caregiver into a home to help someone shower. Don't tell them it's "dementia care." No label, no diagnosis on the file.

What changes?
Dr. Allen Power's answer: they'd start by asking. Is the water warm enough? What would you like to do first? Want to hold the washcloth?

That's exactly what should happen anyway. The label is what stops the asking.

Melissa was candid: she does it too. That honesty is why this episode is worth an hour of your time.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x98zH0

10/05/2026

Ask a room full of people what would make them resist a shower from a caregiver.

They say: I don't know this person. Nobody explained what's coming. Nobody asked me. They're moving too fast.

Dr. Allen Power's point: people with dementia resist for the same reasons you would.

The bigger shift is timing. You can't fix bath time at bath time. If a person's sense of control is running on empty, you fill it all day, in every interaction. That turns the heat down on the kettle so the hard moments don't boil over.

Proactive, not reactive.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x97t_0

10/01/2026

The water's too cold. You say so, or you reach over and fix it.

A person living with dementia may not be able to do either in that moment. So they shout. Or push the caregiver away.

Dementia changed the reaction. It did not cause the problem. The cold water did.

Dr. Allen Power uses this analogy to explain why sedating pills and spa music both miss the point. If you never turn up the water, you never solved anything.

And in his words, the well-being domains are the water temperature.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x96mH0

09/29/2026

"Dad can't choose what he wants to eat anymore. He has dementia. I have POA, so I'll decide."

Melissa hears versions of this all the time. And it's a jump from one extreme to the other.

Dr. Allen Power draws the line clearly. Competence is a legal term decided by a judge. Capacity is different. Someone can lose the ability to manage property and still be perfectly able to pick their lunch.

A power of attorney does not give you the right to make a decision the person is still making for themselves.

If they say no, they're deciding.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x93_50

09/25/2026

He wanted a big zero-turn riding mower. It wasn't in the budget.

The family's first instinct: he has dementia, he doesn't do finances anymore, we'll handle it.

He got upset. So they tried something different. They sat down with him, showed him the budget, and asked what would work. They bought something affordable together.

Dr. Allen Power's rule from that story: don't do to. Don't do for. Do with.
At Ohana Care, Melissa teaches our care teams a version of the same thing: cue, don't do. Set the person up for success without taking the task away from them.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x93gw0

09/24/2026

🏡The house hasn't changed. But for your mom, it might have.

Dr. Allen Power on supporting someone with dementia at home: the surroundings are familiar, but the person is experiencing them differently now. A hallway that was second nature becomes confusing. The hum of the fridge becomes "someone's in the house."

His advice: walk through your home and ask what's working and what isn't. Then adjust.

And before any of that, put your own oxygen mask on first. You can't fill someone else's well-being from an empty glass.

Full Episode here - https://hubs.la/Q04x92020

Address

3450 Uptown Boulevard
Victoria, BC
V8Z0B9

Telephone

+14033002273

Website

https://ohanacare.ca/vancouver-island

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