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Extended Care
Seniors Rendezvous
Community Outreach
Help for the Victims of Elder Abuse
Extended Care
- Holiday/Temporary Accommodation
This service is offered to the older persons whose family or carer be going away on business or holiday and he/she is unable to go along. This service is available for short periods or even extended periods of several months.
- Relief Care
Relief Care is a service available to the primary carer of a frail older person still living at home. When the carer needs some time away she/he can make use of this service at any of our frail care facilities with complete peace of mind in the knowledge that their parent will receive the best possible care.
- Post Hospital Care
Step down nursing care is offered in each of the frail care facilities. This includes care for people who have been discharged from hospital after an operation or illness and are not quite ready to go home as they still require some assistance
- Elderly Day Care
Elderly Day Care is available at all of the Society's frail care facilities. A person can come in for the day on a permanent or casual basis, which means they don't have to be at home alone whilst the rest of the family is out at work or school. They can have meals, participate in a variety of social activities and be assisted with bathing etc.
Senior Rendezvous
If you are over 60 years of age, living independently in the Helderberg area and have been seeking certain services to make your life easier… WISH NO MORE!
The Helderberg Society for the Aged offers countless services to make your retirement an easy, sociable affair which includes:
• The option to order a well-balanced meal prepared by expert chefs, either
to take away or join us as a table boarder, at any of the various venues
during the week
• Church services for all denominations
• A variety of card games, scrabble, exercise classes, educational talks
snooker, bingo, lectures, carpet bowls, musical concerts, a choice of choirs
regular outings and a shuttle service to the village and Somerset Mall
Join us at the Seniors' Rendezvous - you'll never look back! For your convenience, the venues of the Seniors' Rendezvous are positioned throughout Somerset West in the activity centres of our blocks of flats.
Community Outreach
What are our aims through service centres:
• To empower older and disabled persons, by enhancing their quality of life as
well as to enable them to remain living independently within the community,
for longer, by offering a programme relevant to the needs of the members
• To build and strengthen the capacity of people over 60 and the physically
disabled aged 18 years and over, thus improving their quality of life
• To promote self-sufficiency and independent living
• To develop and enhance income-generating skills through the production of
saleable crafts
• To empower illiterate older persons by providing literacy training
• To provide physical and social interaction opportunities, which are beneficial
to the physical and mental well-being of the target community
What programmes are offered:
• Nutritious meals and food parcels
• Transport
• Clinic services
• Stroke Support Group
• Art classes
• Embroidery Group
• Sewing project (production of African wear)
• Bead work
• English Literacy Classes
• Social Interaction (e.g. games, outings, etc)
• Educational Talks
• Counselling & life skills training
Funding
As all our members rely entirely on either a minimal government grant or disability grant, the monthly membership fee is low. The Department of Social Development grants subsidies for registered service centres offering approved services and funding proposals are continually made to charitable trusts, large companies and kind individuals.
The two outreach centres at present are :
• Garden Village in Garden Village, Somerset West: Mondays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays
• Ncedu Lwethu Senta, in Lwandle: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Help for the victims of Elder Abuse
Elder Abuse - How to recognize it and what to do about it
Elder abuse is unfortunately a daily instance for some older people. We are working with various partners to ensure we do our utmost to attend any reported cases and enhance the lives of all older people. For a pdf document on what it is/can be, and contact detail, kindly click this link Help for the victims of Elder Abuse to download.
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