We keep your parents company at home, so their days stay full even when yours are.
Hayat's Companionship is a small, family-run service in Edmonton. Our caregivers are certified health care aides who visit seniors in their own homes: a walk, a shared meal, conversation over tea, help around the house, a hand getting to an appointment.
Hayat (حياة) means life in Arabic. That is the whole idea. Not just supervision, but life in the day.
Who you're hiring
Hayat's Companionship is a small team, and small on purpose. Every caregiver is someone we trained ourselves and work beside, not a name pulled from an agency database. You will know exactly who is coming to your parent's home, and you and your parent will meet them face to face before the first visit is ever scheduled.
That matters because companionship is not a task list. The right caregiver is someone your mother looks forward to seeing, someone who knows how she takes her tea and which stories she loves to retell. We keep the team small so every match can be that personal.
We built Hayat's with Muslim families in mind, and it shows in the details: caregivers who understand prayer times and halal kitchens, the option of a female caregiver, visits that schedule around Ramadan rather than through it. Nothing is assumed and everything is asked. And every family is welcome here, whatever their background.
What a visit looks like
Two to three hours, in your parent's home, on a schedule you set. Open any part below to see what it includes.
Company and conversation
Tea, card games, photo albums, a phone call to family they have been meaning to make. Sitting together counts. It is most of the job.
Walks and outings
Around the block, to the park, to the mosque, or out for coffee. Whatever their energy allows that day.
Meals
We cook or warm up a meal and eat together. If the home keeps halal, so does the cooking.
Help around the house
Dishes, laundry, tidying the kitchen. The small things that pile up.
Errands and appointments
Groceries, the pharmacy, or company at a medical appointment, with notes for the family afterward.
Updates for you
Medication reminders during the visit, and an honest update to you after it: how they seemed, what they ate, anything worth flagging.
Around all of it, the day's rhythm is respected. If it is time for prayer, the visit pauses. During Ramadan, we schedule around fasting rather than through it.
Who comes to your home, and how we can prove it
You are letting someone into your parent's house. You should not have to take our word for anything, so here is exactly what stands behind every caregiver we send:
- Certified health care aides. Our caregivers hold the Government of Alberta Health Care Aide certificate or an equivalent health-care credential, which means formal training in senior care: mobility, safety, nutrition, and recognizing when something is wrong.
- Registered with Alberta's regulatory college. As of February 2026, health care aides in Alberta are regulated under the College of Licensed Practical Nurses and Health Care Aides of Alberta (CLHA). Our HCAs are registered members, accountable to a professional standard set by the same college that regulates practical nurses. You can verify a registration yourself on the CLHA's public register.
- Police-checked, including the vulnerable sector. Every caregiver has a current criminal record check with a vulnerable sector check, the deeper screening required for people who work with seniors.
- First aid and CPR certified. Standard First Aid with CPR, kept current.
- Insured. We carry liability insurance for work in clients' homes.
Ask us for the paperwork on any of this, certificates, registration numbers, police checks, and we will send it before your first visit, not after.
What we don't do
We think you should hear this from us plainly. We are companions and health care aides, not nurses or a medical service. We don't give injections, manage IVs, change wound dressings, or make medical decisions. We remind about medications; we don't administer or adjust them.
If your parent needs clinical home care, we will tell you honestly and help you connect with the right service rather than stretch past what we are qualified for. And if a visit ever leaves us concerned about their health or safety, you will hear from us the same day.
Getting started
It begins with a conversation, not a form. Email us, tell us a little about your parent: their routine, their language, what a good day looks like for them. We will set up a free first meeting at their home with you present. If it feels right to everyone, including them, we schedule the first visit. If it doesn't, no hard feelings.