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Phone +27 28 424 1080
4 Smith St, Bredasdorp, 7280, Western Cape, South Africa
ABOUT US
On November 12, 2013, Suideroord Old Age Home received a registration certificate to care for 77 older persons. Meanwhile, the Home expanded to 165 residents and a new application for re-registration was submitted to the Department of Social Development in August 2018.
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Suideroord is licensed by the Department of Health to provide care for 108 dementia patients and is one of only 8 homes chosen nationally, whose statistics has been used by Delliott for a cost estimate regarding the Older Persons Act.
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The home also features a unique 4-bed unit for the temporary care of patients from the community to aid in post-op and sickbed recovery and provides a second 3-bed "step down" service for sub-economic patients on behalf of the Department of Health.
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HISTORY
At an ACVV Executive Meeting on April 21, 1959, the establishment of a Home for the Aged was discussed for the first time. The Dutch Reformed church undertook to donate the land and invested the first R1 000 in a special Old Age home trust fund.
The community were fully involved in this project and for several years, representatives from the Municipality, Co-operative, Chamber of Commerce, members of the Dutch Reformed Church Council and the local doctor, together with ACVV members, served on the committee.
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Eventually, plans were drawn by Mr Abraham Roux for 30 prospective residents and Mr P J Coetzee was appointed as building contractor. The wheels were set in motion on December 7, 1965 and the building was officially opened. Mr Dirk Uys, then Minister of Agriculture, who grew up in the Bredasdorp District unveiled the commemorative plaque..
ACVV INVOLVEMENT
Suideroord's "birth process" was initiated at an ACVV meeting on April 21, 1959. The Group of enthusiastic ACVV women in good faith approached the Dutch Reformed church and the public for support. Although everyone, as mentioned above, gave their full support, the project was entrusted to the ACVV. Their first fundraiser was to collect for the Old Age Home in the Dutch Reformed congregation.
Since then, with continued change in representation from the community, the ACVV members still form the majority on the Governing Council that runs the Home. The Chairman of the local ACVV branch serves on the Suideroord Governing Council, which is a service branch of the local ACVV branch. The Chairman of the Suideroord Governing Council reports to the local ACVV branch on a monthly basis.