SENIORS’ WRAPAROUND
The London InterCommunity Health Centre is leading a new program, called Seniors’ WrapAround, funded by the South West Local Health Integration Network as part of its Aging at Home Strategy.
WrapAround, which has been practiced internationally for many years, can be described as a “collaborative, team-based approach to facilitating service and support planning.”
Locally, our partners include:
- Victorian Order of Nurses
- Across Languages
- Council for London Seniors
- Association canadienne française de l’Ontario, Conseil régional de London-Sarnia
- Community Services Coordination Network
- French Language Health Services
- Pathways
- Family Services Thames Valley
- Réseau franco-santé du Sud de l’Ontario
Our WrapAround program supports immigrant and francophone individuals, aged 55+, who are living in private homes but have few community or social supports – leaving them isolated and at higher risk of hospitalization or long-term care placement.
Concerned community agencies and organizations, family physicians, health care professionals, faith communities or family members can all refer isolated seniors to our WrapAround program. There is no cost to participants.
A referred senior will be partnered with one of our WrapAround Facilitators. It is the Facilitator’s role to work with the senior and his or her family to form a WrapAround team. Team members, selected by the senior, may include friends, family members, neighbours, or service providers that the senior may or may not already be working with.
With the right combination of supports in place, seniors participating in the WrapAround program will find solutions to many of their day-to-day concerns and live happier, healthier lives in their own homes.
To learn more about WrapAround or to refer a senior to this innovative program, please call Dharshi Lacey, Coordinator, at (519) 660-0875 x 226 or email her at dlacey@lihc.on.ca