Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Park Care is an independent, faith based, charity organisation. Registered as a Non-profit Organization (001-176 NPO) and Registered with SARS as a Public Benefit Organization (PBO No 930009409) Providing specialized 24 / 7 residential nursing care, palliative and / or holistic support to 320 older, frail persons within a caring setting A secure enclosed environment with 24 / 7 security, leafy gardens rich with birdsong and established trees, residents enjoys peace of mind As the colours of a rainbow, many ethnic, language and religious segments are represented in Park Care's resident profile. Residents as young as late 20's and as old as 101 years of age 24 / 7 Nursing Services are provided for: Age-related general frailty Cancer (all stages) Traumatic Brain & Spinal Injuries Parkinson's Disease (all stages) Multiple Sclerosis Permanent Vegetative States requiring PEG feeding and Trachea Suctioning Dementias like Alzheimer's Disease Post-Operative Care & Rehabilitation...

Northmed is a 29-bed Frail Care facility located in the North Riding AH suburb of Randburg, where we provide 24-hour personal multidisciplinary nursing care to frail and elderly individuals.

Leratong Hospice is a palliative care centre of excellence, providing holistic palliative care for our patients, support for their families and actively promoting palliative care, In the Community, For the Community, By the Community.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Hospice provides support and care to persons in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Providing palliative home based care to people living with life threatening illnesses.

Serious illnesses can cause physical symptoms, such as pain, nausea, fatigue, depression or anxiety. Stepping Stone Hospice provides specialised care, focusing on the reduction of pain and symptoms of life-threatening illness. Palliative care is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual (WHO, 2003) . Care can be provided in the home, hospital or In-Patient-Unit. *Regular home visits by the Hospice Sister assures that the need is re-assessed on a regular basis as the patient's condition changes. Hospice Care includes pain and symptom control; nursing management i. e. how to deal with incontinence, wound dressing, prevention of bed sores, colostomy care.