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Choosing and Paying for Care

Home care, retirement homes and long-term care; public and private care; how to choose a provider and what happens next.

Ontario has several kinds of care, paid for in different ways, and the words are confusing. These guides compare the options in plain language, explain what Ontario Health atHome covers, and show what to ask any home care provider before you decide.

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Choosing and Paying for Care

Private home care or Ontario Health atHome? What each one covers

What publicly funded home care in Ontario covers, how the hours are decided, where the gaps usually are, and how private home care can fill them. Plain answers.

November 4, 2026 · 4 min read
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Choosing and Paying for Care

Paying for home care in Ontario: tax credits and coverage

How Ontario families can pay for home care: what public care covers, the medical expense tax credit, the Seniors Care at Home credit, and what to ask first.

November 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Choosing and Paying for Care

What happens at a free in-home care assessment

What a RightKind Care™ coordinator looks at during a free in-home assessment, how to prepare, what you get afterwards, and how fast care can start.

November 4, 2026 · 2 min read
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Choosing and Paying for Care

Home care or a retirement home? How Toronto families can decide

Retirement home, long-term care or care at home? A plain comparison for Toronto families, and the questions that matter most: safety, cost and what your parent wants.

November 4, 2026 · 6 min read
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Choosing and Paying for Care

How to choose a home care agency in Toronto: 12 questions to ask

The questions worth asking any home care agency before you hire: screening, matching, backup coverage, supervision, pricing and how fast care can start.

November 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Other situations

Guides for other moments

Coming Home From Hospital

A parent is coming home from hospital

What to ask before a discharge, how to plan the first week at home, and where public and private help fit in.

Start here → Worried About a Parent at Home

I'm worried about a parent living at home

Falls, forgetfulness, living alone: how to make home safer and how to tell when it is time for more help.

Start here → Living With a Condition

Someone we love has a diagnosis

Parkinson's, stroke, ALS, MS, brain injury and more: what daily life looks like and how support at home helps.

See the conditions → Caring for the Carer

I'm the one doing the caring, and I'm exhausted

For the family member doing the caring: recognising burnout, sharing the load, and taking a real break.

Start here → Jewish and Cultural Care at Home

Our traditions need to be respected at home

Keeping a kosher kitchen, Shabbat and holidays, modesty and language when someone else is helping at home.

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