Home care in the GTA, without the guesswork.
See which agencies serve your municipality, what publicly funded care covers, and what the rest of the week will cost.
Public funding
The province funds a few hours a week
Ontario Health atHome usually funds 3 to 10 hours a week once someone is assessed. If your parent needs help every day, the rest of the week is yours to arrange. Most families find this out during a hospital discharge call, with a few days to decide.
About three hours a day. Morning routine, meals, light housekeeping and company.
Roughly what the gap costs
for the 15 hours a week the province does not cover, at GTA personal-support rates.
Illustrative, at $38/hour. Run your own numbers
How it works
Three steps to a shortlist
Free for families. Providers pay for the introduction, and we show how every name reached your list.
- 1
Tell us what is needed
Where, who it is for, and what kind of help. About 45 seconds.
- 2
We build your shortlist
Only providers who cover your municipality and offer that care.
- 3
They get in touch
Usually within a business day. No obligation either way.
The directory
Every provider here is real and named
Agencies come from the Home Care Ontario member directory and their own websites. Retirement homes come from the RHRA Public Register. Nobody is invented and nobody pays to appear.
- 53
- Home care agencies
- 212
- Retirement homes
- 25
- GTA municipalities
- 115
- Coverage claims read directly
We do not vet, inspect or rank them. Home care agencies in Ontario are not licensed the way retirement homes are. What we can do is be precise about where each fact came from. Read the method
Services and rates
What care costs, and who pays for it
Ranges compiled from GTA providers' own published rates, never quotes.
Personal support
Bathing, dressing, mobility
Home nursing
Wounds, medication, injections
Dementia care
Trained support and routine
Companionship
Conversation, walks, company
Respite care
Cover so you can rest
Palliative care at home
Comfort care at end of life
Post-hospital care
The first weeks home
Live-in and 24-hour care
Someone there overnight
Homemaking and meals
Meals, laundry, housekeeping
Transportation and appointments
Rides to appointments
Physiotherapy at home
Strength and mobility at home
Occupational therapy
Home safety and equipment
Foot care
Nail and diabetic foot care
Coverage
Where we have providers
Every municipality with providers, and how many cover it. Only places with three or more get a page of their own.
City of Toronto
Peel Region
York Region
Halton Region
Guides
Answers to the questions families ask us
Written for the week you are actually in: the discharge call, the first assessment, the bill that arrives.
How to get publicly funded home care in Ontario
Who to call, what the assessment looks at, what the province actually pays for, and how many hours to realistically expect.
Read the guide →MoneyWhat home care actually costs in the GTA
Hourly rates by service, why minimum-hour rules matter more than the rate itself, and what a realistic month looks like at each level of need.
Read the guide →UrgentYou have been told they are being discharged. Now what?
A short sequence for the 24 to 72 hours when a hospital wants the bed back and the family has not planned for care.
Read the guide →For agencies
Enquiries from families who already know what they need
Every enquiry arrives with the municipality, the service, the hours and the funding situation already answered, and with recorded consent to contact. You pay per enquiry, not per placement.
Tell us what the week needs to look like
Seven short questions. We shortlist the agencies that cover your municipality and they contact you directly.
Hearth does not provide care and never charges families.
