Times-Advocate, 1982-08-18, Page 7• • *
Before the TCH was incor-
porated as a non-profit volun-
tary agency in 1978 through
the efforts of former Seaforth
mayor Betty Cardno, coor-
dinator at the time of the pro-
vincial government's
Homecare program for
Huron, and Wingham area
resident and trained
Homemaker Jean Young, the
county's Homemakers had no
central registry to coordinate
ob placements, wages,
ravelling expenses and
employee benefits.
TCH services now include
ssessment and referral;
tanning and coordination of
vailable services; monitor -
ng and supervision of clients
nd staff, homemaking (per-
onal care, meals, light
ousekeeping, laundry, shop-
ping); transportation;
housekeeping, and home help
(handymen, housecleaners.)
Clients include new
mothers, elderly couples who
could not otherwise stay in
their own hot}i s, 'families
with handic4ppc' children
and convalescing and ter-
minally ill patients.
Women with an RNA
wishing ' to became
Homemakers take a 12 -week
course at CnnestggaCollege's
. Clinton campus. The training
includes bed care, cooking
nutritionally and for special
diets, wise shopping, how to
get along with people and
render moral support, and
first aid and emergency
procedures.
In 1981 the approximately
75 trained Homemakers
registered with the agency
provided almost 52,000 hours
of homemaking and home
help to 1,914 patients/clients
in Huron County.
In 1981, 68 percent of this
Homemakers make it possible for many to staythere
There's.
10.1no
aye like
once
"None of
knows ws what is and face tomorrow eagerly ahead. -.the important thingis g Y equal to what it brings„ is a included in the annual 1981
and cheerfully and with the quotation from American report of the Town and Coun-
to use today wisely and well certainty that we shall be playwright Manning Pollock try Homemakers by ex-
ecutive director Jean Young.
Sometimes, because of ac-
cident, misfortune, the infir-
mities of old age.or a dozen
other reasons, gime of us are
temporaHly or permanently
unable to cope. with what
tomorrow brings, and need
help. That's where Huron
County's Town and Country
Homemakers come in.
"I couldn't do without
them," 82 -year-old Rae
Aikens of Centralia said em-'
phatically, as she sat in her
spotless kitchen and watched
Homemaker Anne Cottel,
Crediton, mix up.a lemon pie.
The Aikens have been Town
and Country Homemaker
clients since George, 78,
returned home in April after
hospitalization for a heart at-
tack. (He had had two strokes
'four years ago.)
"I built my own house, I'm
-going to stay in it as long as
I can," Mr. Aikens remarked,
looking around his bungalow
with justifiable pride.
A Homemaker visits • the
Aikens five days a
VISITING HOMEMAKER — Mr. and Mrs. Earl Campbell can manage quite well in stays from 9 to , prepares a
their own home, with the help of Homemaker Muriel Allan. hot nouris
hing noon meal and
leaves food for supper, does
vacuumingand dusting, and
goes grocery shopping with
Georg{after Rae has written
up a list.
A registered nursing assis-
tant, Anne Cottel has been
with TCH since 1978. As a
mother, she finds the morning
hours of work as a
Homemaker more convenient
than the shift schedule re-
quired when she worked at
the South Huron hospital.
Mrs. Cottel enjoys her
work. "It's a challenge,
meeting all types of people,
young and old, and getting to j
know • them and their t
families," she said, adding
that she is always learning
new tricks from her clients. a
She got what is now her p
�. • t: • i favourite recipe for banana a
cake from one of them, i
ONE LEMON PIE COMING UP — Homemaker Anne Cottel makes a filling for • • • a slight strokee,, Earl
George and Rae Aikens favourite flavour in pies - lemon. While recovering Campbell from a h
f
had one burning desire -
wanted toset out of t
hospital and back to his ho
in Hensall.. However, M
Campbell and his wife Ma
gie are both in their eighti
and Mrs. Campbell could n
look after her partially i
capacitate& husband
herself. She needed help, a
she got it. The day after Ea
returned home, Homemak
Muriel Allan, Brucefield, w
on the job.
"I couldn't manage alone
Maggie Campbell said, ech
ing Rae Aikens sentiments
Mrs. Allan bathes he
client, helps him dress, an
he's up for the day. She does
laundry daily, vacuums eve
Friday, prepares a hot mea
each noon, and usually leav
baking on Fridays for th
weekends.
The day after Muriel Alla
graduated from the Conestog
course in 1981 she had a job
She explained that before ap
plicants are accepted for th
course, they are sent out t
see if they will like the work
and if the clients like them.
Muriel derives a great dea
of satisfaction from her work
I enjoy helping someone
out. If I had my life to live
over I would'be a nurse" she
.said.
he total was purchased by
he private clients who paid the
me agency $6.25 per hour for the
r. Visiting Homemakers' -ser-
g- vices. Out of this TCH pay the
es, homemakers' wages, mileage
of over the first five miles,
n- employee benefits and the
by agency's administrative
nd costs.
rI According to volunteer
er coordinator Deanne Dickson,
as TCH is frequently contacted
by the families of prospective
clients, family doctors,
o- neighbours calling for infor-
• mation, public health nurses
r and children's services. After
d a case manager talks to so-
meone wishing to hire a
ry homemaker to assess the
1 specific needs, a correspon-
es dingly suitable Homemaker
e is assigned to the client.
For those who can not pay
n all or' some of the costs,
a "There are avenues we can
.. persue", Mrs. Dickson said.
- TCH's employees are also
e hired through the Cancer
o Society, Family. and
, Children's Services, other
social service agencies and
1 the provincial government's
home care program, an ex-
tension of hospital care at
home.
This October Town and
Country Homemakers will
launch a fund-raising drive
throughout Huron County.
They hope to raise $70,000;
$50,000 will be used to assist
people needing help but
unable to pay the full cost,
and the remaining $20,000 will
pay off the mortgage on the
housepurchased inWingham
last year as TCH
headquarters.
"We are strictly a Huron
County charity...We are en-
tirely on our own, with no
backing from a national or
provincial charity", . Mrs.
Dickson said. "If we are suc-
cessful
in reaching our goal,
people who genuinely need
our homemaking services
will get it, and we will be
creating more employment at
the same time."
Mrs. Dickson emphasized
the fact that all funds raised
will benefit residents of Huron
County.
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