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Feb 01, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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Care-Giver, Home-Carer, Home-Based-Carer, First-Aider, etc., are all kinds of carers. Nurses, medical doctors, social-workers and psychiatrists are too. But what about a kitchen worker, a gardener and a painter? Don't they care? About food, greening the earth, and about home maintenance? Whilst Capetown Careworkers have completed more than a thousand hours of care at Tygerberg and Sommerset hospitals, with excellent written recommendations; and, whilst Capetown Carework places carers in homes, as well as trains people in health-oriented skills -- skills needed when looking after a senior citizen or physically challenged person -- this alone is not enough training. And, it is not enough caring either. We call ourselves careworkers, then, because we know quite a bit about looking after an elderly person's garden, about how to follow a certain diet for such a person, and about how to help maintain their home, as well as knowing how to help them in and out of a wheelchair, for instance. In short, we care about everything that that person might no longer be able to do for themselves.
Capetown Carework is an incentive that stems from not-for-profit organisations, Vila Maninga and BizAfrica. These organisations have operated various charities for over forty years, in Zimababwe, Mozambique, South Africa and the UK. They have received notable commendation, when a Presidential Visit was made in 2006 http://www.vila-maninga.org/president.html. Charitable causes for which these organisations have become very well-known include school- and community-centre-building, skills training, and building homes for the elderly, as well as orphaned or destitute children.
The founder of these organisations contracted a flesh-eating bacteria whilst working in Mozambique, 2007. (Picture on "Read More" page, not for sensitive viewers.)
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Last Updated ( Mar 09, 2010 at 11:18 PM )
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Written by Administrator
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Feb 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM |
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AUGUST, 2010:
ABC for AGING
A is for arthritis
B a bad back
C is for chest pains. Corned beef? Or is it Cardiac?
D's for dental decay and decline
E for eyesight--can't read that top line?
F is for fissures and fluid retention
G for gas (which I'd rather not mention and not to
forget other gastrointestinal glitches)
H is high blood pressure
I is for itches, and lots of incisions
J for joints, that fail to flex
L for libido--what happened to sex?
Wait! I forgot about K! K is for knees that crack
all the time
(But forgive me, I get a few lapses in my M-memory
time to time)
N is for nerve (pinched) and neck (stiff) and neurosis
O is for osteo-for all the bones that crack
P is for prescriptions, that cost a small fortune
Q is for queasiness. Fatal or just the flu? Give me
another pill and I'll be good as new!
R is for reflux--one meal turns into two
S is for sleepless nights, counting my fears on how to
pay my increasing medical bills!
T is for tinnitus--I hear bells in my ears and the
word "terminal" also rings too near
U is for urinary and the difficulties that flow (or
not)
V is for vertigo, as life spins by
W is worry, for pains yet found
X is for X ray--and what one might find
Y is for year (another one I'm still alive)
so Z is for zest
For surviving the symptoms my body's deployed, and
keeping twenty-six doctors gainfully employed.
Received as email attachment, from Dr. A. McDonald
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Last Updated ( Aug 03, 2010 at 04:42 AM )
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Written by Administrator
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Aug 19, 2004 at 08:11 PM |
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