Support that helps make recovery at home easier.
We can coordinate with your healthcare providers and family to help make your post-hospital recovery feel more comfortable and manageable at home, in a rehab facility, or wherever healing takes place.
Here’s how transitional care can help:
- Timely support – care can often begins within 24 hours, helping make the transition home or to a rehab facility smoother.
- Help staying on track – gentle motivation to participate in therapy, movement, and daily routines.
- Medication and appointment help – from picking up prescriptions to helping you get to follow-up appointments, we help take care of the everyday tasks.
- Support for healthy routines – help with meals, hydration, rest, and daily structure.
- Reduced isolation – meaningful conversation can greatly help improve mood during a vulnerable time.
- Added safety and supervision – extra support to help reduce risks that may lead to setbacks or unnecessary hospital readmissions.
Care that supports every step of recovery.
Our transitional care supports both physical recovery and emotional well-being.
At home, our Care Pros can provide one-on-one support with daily routines, personal care, and and mobility—helping you regain confidence as you recover. Having someone there consistently can help post-hospital recovery feel less overwhelming.
If you’re in a hospital or rehabilitation setting in Toronto, ON, staff often care for many patients at once. Our Care Pros provide additional companionship and personal attention. We work alongside facility care teams to help maintain routines, encourage activity, and offer emotional reassurance, so care feels more connected and supportive.
Customized care plans for a safe recovery.
From there, your local Home Instead team in Toronto, ON will create a customized care plan that provides the right level of non-medical support as you heal. As your needs change, we’ll adjust your care plan to match your pace of recovery.
Transitional Care services include:
- Activities of Daily Living
- Bathing and Grooming
- Companionship
- Toileting
- Meal Preparation
- Light Housekeeping
- Medication Reminders
- Post-surgical support at home
Serving Toronto, ON and the surrounding area.
Since 2005, Home Instead has been part of the community, providing quick access to top-rated home care in Toronto.
Proudly caring for communities near you:
Toronto, East York, North York, York
…to name a few.
A trusted partner in transitional care in Toronto, ON.
Helping Toronto families transition home with confidence.
Since 2005, Home Instead Care Pros have provided trusted post-hospital support to older adults recovering in the comfort of home.Proudly caring for communities near you:
Toronto, East York, North York, York
...to name a few.
Transitional care resources
The move from hospital to home is an important step. These articles and conversations offer guidance to help you feel more prepared and supported along the way.
Transitional care FAQs
Yes. The team can discuss the discharge plan, what will be difficult at home, and the support needed for the first visits. Hospital discharge teams, rehabilitation centres, long-term care homes, and Alzheimer Society events.
A Care Pro may help with settling in, meals, personal care, mobility, transportation, reminders, and companionship while the family learns what recovery looks like at home.
A 105-year-old client has continued living at home with consistent support and a familiar relationship with the care team. The plan can begin with the immediate priorities and then be adjusted as the client regains strength or needs more help than expected.
Within 24 hours when staffing and the care plan align. Home Instead provides non-medical support and works alongside the client’s licensed healthcare providers.
Families can review mobility, meals, bathing, medication management by the client’s licensed providers, transportation, equipment, and the first few days of routines.
Hospital discharge teams, rehabilitation centres, long-term care homes, and Alzheimer Society events. The team can help clarify which non-medical tasks should be included in the home-care plan.
A short-term plan may become a longer schedule, step down as recovery progresses, or expand if the client needs more help than expected.
RN-led care planning, personality matching, clear family communication, and support for dementia, high-hour schedules, and changing needs. Families can review the plan with the office as the client’s strength, confidence, and routine change.