Associations Supporting People with Illness

• Helpline and information on tinnitus.
• Support helpline.
• Referral to regional professional resources.
• Open mutual aid group every month.

• Advocacy.
• Sale or loan of specialized equipment for walking.
• Documentation.

Services for seniors.

• Home assistance for varied light housework.
• Shopping assistance.
• Technology assistance.
• Crutches, cane, walker and wheelchair loans.
• Friendly calls.
• Home visits for people living alone.
• Conferences.
• Listening and referral.
• Assistance with forms.
• Physical and recreational activities.
• Community lunches.
• Partnership with the Carrefour Communautaire Montrose for the meals on wheels program and for medical transportation.
• Tax clinic.

Resource centre for people living with HIV-AIDS or hepatitis C.

Support

• Case management: guidance and referral.
• Support groups led by a member and a counsellor.
• Thematic groups led by counsellors on serostatus disclosure and testimonies.

Material assistance

• Safe sex materials.
• Food and dietary supplements buyers club, information on nutrition and treatments.

Education

• Information on treatments.
• Education on prevention.
• Training and conferences on the medical and psychosocial aspects of HIV and hepatitis C.
• Educational workshops for schools, groups and community centres.
• Sex education toolkit for teachers.
• Naloxone kits distribution.
• Distribution of new injection equipment for drug users.
• Interventions in festive environments.

• Support helpline.
• Twinning program for parents of children and people living with allergies.
• Training programs in a daycare setting, schools and restaurants.

Alzheimer awareness and support to people living with Alzheimer and their close ones.

• Individual and family counselling.
• Activity centre: in-person and online socializing and stimulation activities for those diagnosed.
• Professional training: training in the workplace.
• Support groups for spouses caregivers.
• Sharing Sounds of Music: online music program for individuals who experience the effects of sundowning.
• Educational conferences and training for caregivers, health care professionals and the public.
• Therapeutic yoga for caregivers of people living with dementia.

Consultation, support and respite for people living with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers.

• Intervention: individual, family or group meetings and telephone listening.
• Respite: group and home stimulation respite.
• Coffee meetings and focus group.
• Training for caregivers.
• Exercise your brainpower: memory and concentration stimulation workshops.
• Representation in the community.
• Documentation centre.
• Training sessions for healthcare professionals.
• Lectures for schools, businesses, and senior centers.

• Helpline.
• Individual or family counselling on site or at home with follow-up.
• Support groups for people with Alzheimer's and caregivers.
• Activity and respite centre, emergency drop-in centre.
• At-home stimulation respite: 4 hours per week or 8 hours every 2 weeks.
• Temporary or permanent housing.
• Training for caregivers.

• Free and confidential counselling.
• Support and information groups for people living with Alzheimer and their caregivers.
• Monthly support groups for people living with a neurocognitive disorder and for caregivers.
• Weekly activities for people living with a neurocognitive disorder.
• Conferences for the general public.
• Webinars and teleconferences.
• Training for health care professionals.
• Respite for caregivers: stimulation at home and at the permanent activity centre and Saturday activity centre.
• Art therapy for people living with a neurocognitive disorder and for caregivers.

• Helpline.
• Individual and family counselling.
• Training and support workshops for caregivers.
• Coffee meetings for spouses and for caregivers.
• L'Embellie: speech workshops and activities.
• Home respite.
• Drop-in respite and day centre.
• Vocational training.

Accompaniment of people affected by Alzheimer's disease.

• Support, information, referral and advice.
• Phone counselling.
• Individual and family counselling in person.
• Day and respite centres: social and stimulation activities.
• Accompaniment and respite at home.
• Training workshops.
• Support groups.
• Brain stimulation workshops.
• Information and awareness workshops.
• Conferences.
• Professional training program.
• Reference platform for health care workers: www.referenceaidancequebec.ca

* Another service point at 181 Principale Street, Gatineau (J9H 6A6).

Education, information and support for people living with diabetes.

• Recreational and sports activities: aquafitness, fitness, swimming and bowling.
• Support group on demand.
• Cooking classes.
• Grocery store accompaniment with a professional.
• Nutritional education.
• Foot care.
• Diabetes screening.
• Annual events: Christmas event and conferences.

• Free dinners for members.
• Social and recreational activities: painting classes, pottery classes, film screenings, bingo, etc.
• Rental, sale and exchange of used adapted equipment: chairs, bath seats, crutches, etc.
• Adapted community garden.

• Monthly online support groups for people living with the disease and for caregivers.
• Awareness activities to the network of institutions in Québec.
• Listening and referral.
• Social activities.
• Research support.

• Arthritis connections: self-help, information and support program.
• Arthritis talks: webinars and conferences.
• Arthritis information line: follow-up on information and support requests by phone and email.
• Digital and educational resources.
• E-Newsletter.
• Publications and information kits.
• Summer camp for kids with arthritis.

Support for people living with arthritis.

• Adapted physical activities.
• Social activities: monthly brunch, etc.
• Support groups open to all.
• Wellness workshops: each workshop deals with an arthritis-related topic.
• Arthritis self-management program.
• Conferences with experts.

• Information on all types of arthritis.
• Emotional support.
• Caring and sharing: support groups for people living with arthritis and caregivers.
• Support groups for people coping with scleroderma.
• Information sessions, pain management classes.
• Exercise classes.

Assistive devices loan programs to maximize independence, safety, maintenance in the living environment and integration.

• List of assistive devices covered by the programs: www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-system-and-services/assistive-devices-disabilities-and-handicaps/assistive-devices-programs-for-persons-with-a-physical-or-intellectual-disability-or-an-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd#c3062

Complementary activities to medical treatments for the purpose of replenishing the body, heart, and mind of people affected by cancer and their caregivers.

* Choir.

• Social and recreational activities: Meditation, free guided tours of museums.
• Physical activities: Integral taichi (yoga and Qi Gong) by videoconference.
• Group discussion via videoconferencing.
• Videoconference conferences.

• Adapted workshops: aqua-fibro, gentle movement, cooking, art.
• Various hybrid, virtual and in-person activities.
• Support groups in French.
• Conferences.