In Burnaby the household is often multigenerational. A parent or grandparent lives with the family, and the arrangement works until it does not, usually when the care starts landing on one person who also has a job and children.

What that person needs first is not more advice, it is hours back. Respite visits are the most common request from this city, arranged so the family member can work a shift, sleep, or simply leave the house knowing someone competent is there. Dementia care follows close behind, partly because a shared home makes wandering and nighttime confusion everyone’s problem rather than one person’s.

Guarding Life Home Care is based at 3211 152 St in Surrey and covers Burnaby daily. The first consultation costs nothing. Ring (236) 473-1021.

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