All facilities has 24 hour personnel available for care of residents with all care work monitored by a registered nurse. Services include all meals, washing of clothes and visits to shops on a weekly basis when allowed. Each facility is equipped with a mini kitchen, WiFi, TV with DSTV and all rooms are monitored via CCTV cameras.
A frail care plan is developed for each resident based on their unique needs. The plan is drawn up by our sister in charge with inputs from the resident's family and doctors. Plans are regularly adjusted as the needs of residents change. All decision are evidence based with information recorded in real time. Meals follow a four week menu cycle developed by a registered dietitian. All reasonable dietary requirements are catered for.
Dementia is not easy. Our personnel are specially trained to understand the needs of residents with dementia. We understand the frustrations and the challenges of dementia. With the appropriate care we make it much easier for residents maintaining dignity and joy while fuelling the flame of life as long as we can.
We have a number of houses under our management. Rooms range from single, double up to 5 beds per room. The facilities includes both frail care and assisted living.
Many elderly cannot drive any more, but still wish to live independent. We provide transport. This service also extent to our residents when they need to go for doctor appointments, hospital visits. Note that this is not a replacement for ambulance services. We also provide meals and support to the elderly in the vicinity of our main facility. A care plan is built on the individual situation.
Involvement of the community is a very important corner station of our business. We started the Adopt-a-granny program to support lonely residents. Outsiders visits the lonely and forgotten on a regularly basis. This also lead to the involvement with Sarmie Mommiez where the orginasition assist with bingo games on Mondays whilst the frail care assists with sandwiches that Sarmie Mommiez distribute at soup kitchens.
I am the daughter of Mrs Dorette Herselman in the care of Huis Immanuel since August 2015. My mother had to go for care after a stroke. We were at 16 different places and Immanuel was number 17.
Immanuel has kept up his name ... God with us ... In April 2015 when Immanuel opened its doors, it was a haven for us after my father died and my dear mother stayed behind with advanced Altzheimers.
My wife is in a very advanced stage of vascular dementia, unable to stand, walk and talk. She can not feed herself any longer and does not recognise me or anyone else.
Mental Illness Awareness Week was established in 1990 recognition of efforts by the National Alliance on Mental Illness to educate and increase awareness about mental illness. It takes place every year during the first full week of October. This year it is from 3 Oct to 9 Oct.
