You have to:
- Have a disability: a deficiency, an incapacity
- Have this disability long-term
- Have difficulty carrying out your daily activities.
- Be 5 years of age or older
- Be a resident of Quebec
- Need the help of someone accompanying you to participate in a leisure, cultural, or tourist activities
- You need this companion for at least one of the following reasons:
- To communicate with others:
Understand information or allow interaction with others, despite the availability of technical aids. - To complete the activity safely:
Prevent behavior that could jeopardize your safety or that of others due to unpredictable reactions or to help adequately manage reactions, which can sometimes be sudden and significant. - To help you with your personal needs:
Using the toilet: sitting down, getting up, cleaning yourself, drying yourself off; change the protective pants; to dress or undress; ensure the taking of medications or for certain medical care; change of dressings; etc. - To feed yourself:
Bring food to mouth, cut food, monitor food intake, including potential swallowing problems, risk of suffocation; ensure the appropriateness of eating behaviors; avoid throwing food or picking from other people’s plates, etc. or for complex nutritional care, parenteral nutrition, intravenous hyperalimentation. - To move about:
Carry out transfers, reposition yourself regularly in the wheelchair, accompany due to an unsafe endeavour with or without technical assistance, propel the wheelchair over a long distance, due to fatigue, lack of strength, or to avoid risk of falling on the stairs. - To orient yourself:
Orient oneself in time, obtain landmarks, and recognize people or property.
- To communicate with others: