Personal Support Workers Day 2025! (May 19)

Thank You, PSWs: Honouring the Heart of Elder Care on Personal Support Worker Day

Every year on May 19, we celebrate Personal Support Worker Day - a chance to recognize the people who care for our most vulnerable with strength, skill, and heart.

PSWs are the backbone of elder care. They help with everything from bathing and dressing to mobility, medication reminders, and emotional support. Whether in long-term care homes, retirement residences, hospitals, or private homes, PSWs are there - doing the quiet, essential work that allows seniors to live with dignity.

Today, and every day, we say thank you.

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What Do Personal Support Workers Do?

A Personal Support Worker (PSW) provides hands-on care to individuals who need support with daily living. That includes seniors, people with disabilities, and anyone facing health challenges.

Their tasks may seem routine—helping someone out of bed, preparing a meal, changing clothes—but the impact is anything but ordinary. PSWs:

• Build strong relationships with the people they care for
• Notice subtle changes in health or mood
• Offer companionship and comfort, especially to those without family nearby
• Work closely with nurses, doctors, and families to deliver holistic care

It’s intimate, emotional work—and it requires patience, compassion, and physical stamina.

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The Quiet Strength of PSWs

PSWs are like elephants.🐘

Steady. Gentle. Wise.

They remember routines, stories, and preferences. They carry the emotional weight of the people they support, and they do it with quiet strength. In many ways, PSWs hold the whole care system together—not with flash, but with presence.

To Every PSW: You Make a Difference

On this Personal Support Worker Day, we honour the caregivers who show up, day after day, to lift, guide, feed, clean, listen, advocate, and love. You bring humanity into healthcare.

From all of us at Elderado: thank you.