{"id":1475,"date":"2023-06-10T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/?page_id=1475"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:14:22","slug":"frail-care-unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/frail-care-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Frail Care Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>\n\t\t\t\tThe Cave Retirement Village &#8211; Frail Care Unit\n\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\tThe Caves Retirement Village in Oudtshoorn has a fully equipped Frail Care Unit. The Frail Care Unit is designed and equipped with the latest technology to provide optimal care and comfort to our patients.<br \/>\nOur objective is to ensure high quality care with the necessary skills, compassion and integrity.<br \/>\nTrained caring professional nurses, led by Sister\u00a0Sanet Els, are available to you 24 hours to ensure complete mental rest. We have\u00a0one registered nursing sister, 5 enrolled nurses, 1 enrolled nursing assistant, 9 assistant nurses and 2 general nurses\u00a0working on a shift schedule.\n<p><b>There are currently 30 beds in the Care Unit, of which 10 are single-bed rooms. The services available to the residents of the Village are as follow: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short-term Care (recovery from surgery)<\/li>\n<li>Long-term care (including Alzheimer&#8217;s patients)<\/li>\n<li>Medical Emergency and stabilising<\/li>\n<li>24 Hour medical practitioners assistance<\/li>\n<li>Three daily meals including morning and afternoon<\/li>\n<li>Special diet for diabetics and other special needs<\/li>\n<li>Daily laundry for patients in the Care Unit and cleaning services<\/li>\n<li>Access to community centre, library, braai facilities and television room<\/li>\n<li>Access to physiotherapists and other specialists as needed (for patient&#8217;s own account)<\/li>\n<li>Wound Treatment<\/li>\n<li>Hands and feet care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more specialized medical services Oudtshoorn boasts good infrastructure, a private Medi-clinic and a provincial hospital. Several medical specialists visit Oudtshoorn on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Cape&#8217;s emergency helicopter is stationed in Oudtshoorn and except for excellent hospitals in Oudtshoorn, the clinics in George and Mossel Bay also has the most modern technology and facilities. (ex. Cardiac Unit at Bayview Hospital).<\/p>\n<p><b>Assistance Care<\/b><\/p>\nWe can provide assistance for seniors who need daily personal care and administration of medication, but still function independently in their homes. Regular visits by trained staff, where necessary, provide a healthy balance between an independent lifestyle and high quality care as needed.<br \/>\nMeals can be delivered on-demand to ensure that residents receive the necessary daily nutrition.<br \/>\nAll residents of the Village have a panic button that guarantees 24 hour assistance giving extra peace of mind for our residents.\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sanet.png\" alt=\"Sanet\" title=\"Sanet\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t\t<h3>Sanet Els<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>Head of the Frail Care Unit<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/TheCaves_Versorgingseenheid_21_22.pdf\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Costs for Services:\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCosts for 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The Frail Care Unit is designed and equipped with the latest technology to provide optimal care and comfort to our patients. Our objective is to ensure high quality care with the necessary skills, compassion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1475","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1475\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaves.co.za\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}