Senior Care
Companion Care Services
Our caregivers are Puffin employees, background-checked and insured.
Rates
Every rate →$38/hr
Companion care, daytime
- Overnight, 10 PM – 6 AM
- $42/hr
- 3-hour minimum
- Overtime is 1.5× the rate, only past 8 hours with one caregiver. How overtime works
Priced by the same engine that charges your card. Caregivers are WorkSafeBC covered and hold police vulnerable sector checks.
About this care
Combating isolation and promoting active mental longevity through dedicated social companionship. This service is designed for independent seniors who do not require clinical physical care, but benefit from cognitive engagement, light home help, and community integration.
What it comes to by the week and month
Two afternoons a week
3 hours each, 1:00–4:00 PM
- Per visit
- $114
- Per week
- $228
- Per month
- about $988
Every weekday afternoon
3 hours each, 1:00–4:00 PM
- Per visit
- $114
- Per week
- $570
- Per month
- about $2,470
Priced by the same engine that charges your card. A month is 52 weeks ÷ 12, and each visit is booked individually — there is no subscription. Every rate is on one page.
Booking more than eight hours? How overtime works — and why a longer booking can cost less.
What to expect
Engaging conversation, card games, reading companionship, and structured memory exercises.
Accompanied transport to critical community tasks, medical appointments, grocery tracks, or senior social hubs.
Light household maintenance including fresh bedding organization, general sorting, and basic kitchen management.
Consistent physical mobility monitoring during local walks to ensure safe environmental navigation.
Questions about Companion Care Services
Puffin Services charges $42/hr for Health Care Assistant support, $42/hr for family respite relief care, and $38/hr for companion care. All three carry a three-hour minimum per visit, and the rate is the same in every municipality we serve.
Companion care is social and practical; HCA support is hands-on physical care. Puffin Services provides companion care at $38/hr for independent seniors who benefit from conversation, light home help, and getting out into the community. Health Care Assistant support is $42/hr and is delivered by certified HCAs for seniors who need help with mobility, personal care, and daily routines. If your parent needs help getting out of a chair, that is HCA. If they are managing fine but are alone too much, that is companion care.
Wherever scheduling allows, yes, and for dementia care we treat it as close to essential — a new person in the house every visit undoes much of the benefit for someone with memory loss. Puffin Services employs its caregivers rather than introducing contractors, which is what makes continuity possible to plan for. Where the regular caregiver is unwell or unavailable, finding the replacement is our problem rather than your family's.
Most families arrive at one of two moments: the person they care for has started needing help with things they managed alone a year ago, or the family carer has run out of road. Both are ordinary, and neither means a facility is the next step. Starting with a few hours a week — companion care at $38/hr, or HCA personal care at $42/hr where hands-on help is needed — is usually easier for everyone than starting when there is no choice left.
Online, start to finish, at whatever hour suits you. Choose the service, the city, the date and the hours, tell us anything specific about your family, and pay on the site — there is no phone call, no callback and no waiting on a quote before you know the price. Hourly childcare, postpartum support, senior and adult support and event nannies all work this way, and nanny placement will too once it opens. Pediatric support is the exception: SLPA, OTA, behaviour intervention and autism respite are enquiry-only for now, and those pages say so. A phone line is there if you would rather use it — (604) 283-2829 — but nothing requires it.
Who the booking is for. Companion care at $38/hr is arranged around the person receiving it — company, conversation, a walk, someone in the house. Family respite relief at $42/hr is arranged around the family carer: the point is that you can leave. That is why respite is staffed by a Health Care Assistant rather than a companion, since whoever takes over has to be able to handle everything you normally would, including personal care and mobility, without you there to fill the gaps.
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