A New Palliative and Hospice Centre

Coming soon to the Cape Flats

Hanover Park, and the immediate surrounding suburbs in the Metropole of Cape Town, lack Care facilities dedicated to addressing Hospice and Palliative care. Our primary aim is to provide best practices of Palliative Care/Hospice Care/End-of-Life Care to people who live poverty and face challenging conditions.

Our Service Vision:

Outpatient Care

  • Hospice at Home
  • Wellness Days
  • Family Training

Inpatient Care

  • Respite wards
  • Hospice wards
  • End-of-life wards

Additional Services 

  • Wellbeing & complementary therapy
  • Counselling & bereavement support
  • To build a team of trained community volunteers

Understanding the Language of Care

PALLIATIVE CARE

This is a field in medicine that offers an integrated approach to improve the quality of life of patients and their families when facing the diagnosis of life-limiting illnesses. Diagnosis and referrals happen via local state hospitals and clinics.

HOSPICE CARE

This starts when patients stop treatment to cure their disease and prepare to improve their quality of life. Home-based care will be provided by integrated teams, will do home visits to advise, teach and assist the primary caregiver in best practice and care. There will be Respite wards to give the family a break, (ambulatory patient 10 days stay) or acute symptom management (2-3 day stay).​

END-OF-LIFE CARE​

 

This describes the care given to patients and their families in the last days of their lives. An in-patient hospice ward offering full care which includes medical, complementary, spiritual, emotional and grief counselling.

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