What does your job entail? I offer holistic, palliative care to our registered patients. My care is focussed on the treatment and management of symptoms associated with my patient’s illnesses. I aim to make my patients as comfortable and pain free as possible in the comfort of their own homes, surrounded by the people that […]
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Knysna Day Care (Aug 2016)
Every Tuesday we bring around 25 of our housebound patients to our offices in Wilson street, Hunter’s home. This is an opportunity for them to get out of their homes, socialise, be creative and have time with our nurses and medical doctor. It’s also an opportunity for their care givers to have a well deserved […]
Read More »Hearts for Hospice
As a Hospice we recognise that it is often hard for a healthy person to see the needs beyond the physical/medical needs of a patient. Patients have dreams and aspirations that they begin to realise will never manifest due to their declining health. We don’t want to minimise the importance of the psycho-social needs of […]
Read More »Medical Male Circumcision
June is “Men’s Health Month”. On the 20th of June some of our Hospice Community Health Workers will be working with the Department of Health to educate, encourage and refer males over the age of 15 years to be circumcised. Our health workers will be explaining what males have to do to join the free […]
Read More »Cancer Awareness Day 2016
Want to get involved in WorldCancerDay? Join the TalkingHands campaign & spread supportive WeCanICan messages! Click WorldCancerDay get involved for information. Hospice cancer patients make 17% of the total patients Hospice care and support. Hospice provides a special type of care in which medical, psychological, and spiritual support are provided to patients and their loved ones […]
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