Your Aging Loved One is Unique,
Our Visits are Customized to Them.

Lifting the weight off your shoulders, so your visits are more relaxed

Helping You Find Balance

Here to help your busy family find balance, we schedule regular companion visits with your loved one on a weekly or even daily basis. We visit seniors in Airdrie, Cochrane, Red Deer, Carstairs, Olds, Didsbury, Calgary and area. 
We are A Friend Indeed, and we’re here for your loved one AND for you too.

Engaging In Meaningful Activity

​Connecting your loved one with engaging experiences and activities, meaningful to them wards off mental, physical, social and emotional decline and offers a chance to play – just like they used to. 

​You, the family stay connected and are better informed with regular and timely visit summaries after every visit.

Customized for Your Loved One's Needs and Safety

We customize our visits to the individual and account for all public heath and safety measures needed to keep your loved one safe.  All our interactions are tailored to your loved one’s interests, personality, and abilities.  

With regular visits, your loved one will have a blast. Every week, her Friend will arrive, bringing joy, possibility and conversation that will make life a little better, a little richer –because that’s what Friends do.

You will be kept up to date with regular visit summaries. You will know how your loved one is doing, what we’re doing together, and if there have been any changes noticed. We are there for your loved one and for you!

Visit Types

Regularly Scheduled Visits & Outings:

Your loved one gets a new Friend and you, the family doesn’t have to put everything all on your shoulders, letting you go back to being the son or daughter you want to be.
  • Tailored one on one time with their Friend. Staying in or going on outings, it is what's most meaningful that day.

Friendly Calls:

Its more than a check in with your loved one.
  • It’s a chance to connect.
  • A chance to have fun through social conversation with a Friend.

What Does A Friend Do?

How a Friend helps your loved one in a care facility.

  • Helps them settle into their new space
  • Brings items in and make their space more accessible and enjoyable
  • Goes on outings together for a change of scenery, or accompany to appointments, errands and shopping
  • Provides conversation, a listening ear, opportunities to engage and plan together
  • Provides encouragement to be more active --mentally, physically, socially, to ward off decline
  • Improves overall quality and outlook on life
  • Empowers the individual through choice thus increasing the feeling of independence
  • Provides an escape from the boredom of the day
  • Advocates for your loved one as needed and informs you of how we spent our time together

How a Friend helps your loved one in their home.

  • Brings items in and make their spaces more accessible and comfortable
  • Assists with making meals and/or meal preparation so it's easier for everyone
  • Goes on outings together for a change of scenery, or accompany to appointments, errands and shopping
  • Provides connection with their own community
  • Provides conversation, a listening ear, opportunities to engage and plan together
  • Provides encouragement to be more active --mentally, physically, socially, to ward off decline
  • Improves overall quality and outlook on life
  • Provides an increased feeling of safety and security at home and on outings
  • Advocates for your loved one as needed and informs you of what we have been up to

Companion Visits at home,
in a care facility, in memory care,
or even in hospital waiting for placement.

Having a positive distraction to help break up their day, someone who is meeting their social, emotional, and mental needs, all the while having fun or helping them feel productive. This means it's not all on the family!

Visit Profiles

See a few examples of our Companion Visits

Visits with Barb

Looking for conversation and engagement

Barb’s mom lives in a care facility in Calgary Alberta. The food is good and the people are nice, there just isn’t too much to do during the day. Barb does visit her mom regularly but with work and family it is hard to get in to see her more often. Barb hired A Friend Indeed who comes in two times a week to visit her mom. She knows that her mom will be visited by a kind hearted person who will give her mom one-on-one time and who will engage her in fun activities and conversation. She knows the Friend will come prepared with ideas and suggestions and will let her mom take the lead deciding what she feels like doing first. Quieter, relaxing visits could look like reading out loud or listening to music while more active visits can look like going for strolls together or hitting a balloon around while recalling stories.

Barb likes knowing her mom is engaged and having a good time. She reads the summary that is e-mailed at the end of the visit. The summary covers the activities and fun her mom and the Friend had that day as well as any concerns or changes observed by the Friend in a regular email sent the day of each visit.

Visits with Mary

Living alone and limited mobility

Mary lives in her own home in Airdrie Alberta. Her husband had passed away a few years ago and her children do visit but not as often as she would like. She understands though as they work in Calgary and are raising children of their own. She feels lonely from time to time and since she doesn’t drive anymore, she finds it difficult to get out like she used to.
Mary’s children visit their mom regularly but find that she is spending a lot of her time by herself. It is hard to get out and see her more because of work and the kids are now in scheduled sport activities. They use A Friend Indeed service to help them out and give their mom that extra set of helping hands she needs. A Friend comes out to visit Mary twice a week. Tuesday afternoons are spent getting out of the house with her Friend. A change of scenery is uplifting. With her Friend, they go out for coffee and sometimes browse in a store together. It feels nice to regularly get out into the community again. The second scheduled visit of the week is Friday mornings. Mary prefers to decide how the visit will be spent that morning. Most often the two of them stay in and tackle a small job around the house. They always finish up and save time for a few laughs over a cup of tea or juice, depending on the weather. Mary looks forward to her visits she likes how they break up her week.

Mary’s daughter remains in the loop and appreciates the short concise email summaries from A Friend Indeed after each visit. This reassurance that her mom is still keeping active and has the assistance available is peace of mind for her.

Visits with Gerri

Looking for help with groceries

Gerri lives in her own home in Airdrie Alberta and is pretty self sufficient if she says so herself. Recently she has lost her driver’s license and it has been a big adjustment for her, particularly when it comes to getting groceries. She had taken a cab before but she still struggled with managing the bags and the conversations never really went anywhere. She thought it would be helpful to have someone available inside the store to help her read the fine print and reach the items on the higher shelves. Her only son lives out of town –far enough that it would be an unreasonable request to ask for his assistance especially because of the frequent perishables she needs.

Her son called A Friend Indeed to help his mom out with grocery shopping trips on a regular schedule. Every week her Friend shows up on time at Gerri’s home to take her grocery shopping.

After checking out, the bags are carefully loaded into the vehicle and carried in the house when they return home. Gerri especially enjoys sharing the dreadful task of putting away the groceries with her Friend as their conversations usually get quite comical. Their weekly ritual to wind down from shopping involves a cup of tea and a friendly chat.

Gerri’s son is very happy and content to know that his mom is being helped out in such a way that would mirror just how he would have helped himself if he lived closer. With regular email updates he is confident and informed about his mom’s well-being.

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