CANSA offers a wide range of support and care services to cancer patients and their families. One such support service are our CANSA Care Homes, of which there are 11 across South Africa, in main metropolitan areas. They provide a home-away-from-home environment, offering accommodation to patients undergoing cancer treatment on an out-patient basis, at treatment facilities far from their homes. Learn more: http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-care-homes-it-feels-like-home/

1. CANSA Care Homes

2. Home-away-from-home
There are currently 11 CANSA Care Homes with a total of
254 beds, in areas close to oncology treatment facilities
throughout the country.
CANSA Care Homes provide home-away-from-home
accommodation to patients undergoing cancer treatment
at oncology clinics far from home.
Guests at the Home stay for an average of six weeks.
You can watch our CANSA Care Home video here:
https://youtu.be/EnvgJCtGyrk

4. “To mentally prepare one’s self for death is extremely
emotional but I found comfort at the CANSA Care Home
Care Home and this was truly a home away from home.
from home.They provided me with quality care in a warm
in a warm and friendly environment.They never gave up
gave up on me”
- Mzonke Magqazolo
(CANSA Care Home guest)

6. “It feels like home, without doing the dishes or garden. All
the staff are so positive and very helpful”
- Arnold Bezuidenhout
(CANSA Care Home guest)

9. “All the staff were so professional, loving and respectful.
Thank you to the kitchen staff for the lovely meals – my
meals – my mother couldn’t stop talking about their
their friendliness and helpful nature. My mom also
also appreciated the transport delivered by such
competent staff – without them my mother wouldn’t have
wouldn’t have been able to receive her treatment”

10. Support
• CANSA’s active support groups connect patients, long-
term survivors and their loved ones with others who
have ‘been there’ for insight, moral support and
understanding, hope and inspiration.
• CANSA also offers individual counselling to patients in
need.

12. Online Support
• Facebook Group: Champions of Hope – CANSA
Survivors for cancer Survivors – receive encouragement
from fellow members and share your story
• Facebook Group: CANSA Caring for the Carers for
caregivers of cancer Survivors (patients) – receive
encouragement from fellow members and share your
story
• Facebook Group: CANSA-TLC for children & parents
affected by cancer – receive encouragement from
fellow members and share your story

13. Online Support
• iSurvivor Online Support Programme
to guide cancer Survivors (anyone who has heard the
words ‘you have cancer’) along their journey and help
them cope better
(weekly emails)

14. “Your loving, caring and kindness is much appreciated.
Keep on doing the good work, even for those that are still
that are still coming”
- Mrs Maseko
(CANSA Care Home guest)

15. CancerCare Coping Kit
• This offers info and support to
individuals to deal with the diagnosis of
cancer and everything that goes with it.
• It also provides practical advice to
individuals, their loved ones, care
givers and friends to ease the cancer
journey and to take control by making
informed choices.
• Available on CD and in booklet form
http://www.cansa.org.za/cancercare-
coping-kit/

17. “I have found such value in the Coping Kit. It really helped
me and my family cope with this new journey we are
we are facing. It has a lot of helpful advice”
- Shirley Hanson
(CANSA beneficiary)

19. “The worst part of my cancer treatment was losing my
hair. I still say clothes does not make the man, but hair
but hair definitely makes the woman.Thanks to my
my daughters and CANSA I received the most beautiful
beautiful wig. It looked exactly like my own hair. Same
Same colour, same style and real, real human hair.
hair. Another miracle? No doubt!”
- Elna Bekker
(CANSA beneficiary)

20. Medical Loan Equipment
Our Care Homes also offer medical loan equipment to
patients, such as:
• bath chairs
• commodes
• egg-shell mattresses
• sheep skins
• other aids
• patients can purchase stoma bags, linen savers and
supplements at reduced prices

21. CANSA Care Homes
UNIT CARE HOME ADRESS PHONE NUMBER
SOUTHERN
BUSINESS
UNIT
CANSA Irma Bruschi
Care Home
George
103 Merriman
Street, George
044 874 4824
CANSA Strelitzia
Care Home*
Port Elizabeth
8 Eden Road,
Glendinningvale,
Port Elizabeth
041 373 5157
CANSA Tygerberg
Care Home
Tygerberg
Tygerberg Hospital,
Francie Van Zijl
Drive, Parow
021 9318295
CANSA Eikehof Care
Home
Athlone
7 Dunbar Avenue,
Athlone
021 696 6744
*Self-catering

22. CANSA Care Homes
UNIT CARE HOME ADRESS PHONE NUMBER
NORTHERN
BUSINESS
UNIT
CANSA Keurboom Care
Home
Jhb
C/O Main street and
Princess street.
Belgravia
011 624 1765
CANSA Tipuana Care
Home
Pta
32 Lys street
Rietfontein
012 329 3036
CANSA James Kingston
Care Home*
Rustenburg
Olienhout Ave
Proteapark,
Rustenburg
014 533 0694
CANSA Limpopo Care
Home
Polokwane
C/O Dorp and College
street, Polokwane
015 297 1268
*Self-catering

23. CANSA Care Homes
UNIT CARE HOME ADRESS
PHONE
NUMBER
CENTRAL
BUSINESS
UNIT
CANSA Mkhuhla
Care Home
Durban
619 Umbilo Road,
Durban
031 205 9525
CANSA Olea Care
Home
Bloemfontein
90 Melville Dr,
Brandwag
051 444 2580
CANSA Katleho
Care Home
Bloemfontein
22 Lovedale Ave,
Mangaung,
Bloemfontein
051 432 3829

24. How to book your stay
Bookings can be done in the following ways:
• Patient can be referred via the treatment centre
• Some treatment centres do the bookings for the
patients
• Patients can phone the Care Home and do the booking
themselves

25. What you need to know
• Patients need to be able to look after themselves
• The CANSA Care Home cannot take care of seriously ill
or weak patients
• Patients can be accompanied by a carer (depending on
the availability of beds)
• Flexible fee system is in place (gliding scale used to
determine daily fee) – donations also acceptable
• Medical aid claims are done in line with the specification
of the fund and benefit available for the specific medical
aid patient

26. What you need to know
• Patients need to bring their own toiletries, towels,
clothes and medication
• Patients can stay in over weekends - no formal meals
over weekends but the kitchen is available for self-
catering
• Patients need to have a physical address and homeless
patients cannot be accommodated
It costs CANSA R 650 per
day to accommodate, feed
and transport patients

27. How to give to Care Homes
You can make a donation to the CANSA Care Homes
programme, or to a specific Care Home:
• Online donation can be made here:
https://www.givengain.com/cause/1056/campaigns/102
68/
• Or you can leave a bequest, learn more here:
http://www.cansa.org.za/consider-leaving-a-bequest-
to-cansa/

28. CANSA TLC Lodges
Our CANSATLC Lodges accommodate parents/guardians
of children with cancer undergoing treatment (and not the
children)
http://www.cansa.org.za/tlc-for-youth-and-families-
affected-by-cancer/

30. CANSA TLC Lodges
These Lodges offer the following:
• Skills development and arts and crafts for the mothers
• Professional counselling (individual and group) and
bereavement
• Provide food parcels when patients are discharged and
going home
• We are involved with the children in the various wards
and provide toiletries, clothes, and we have volunteers
assisting with education

32. CANSA TLC Lodges
CANSATLC Nicus Lodge:
• On the premises of Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria
• It has 52 beds including two 4 bed family suites/flats
and an isolation unit for patients who need to be kept in
isolation
CANSATLC Lodge Polokwane:
• On the premises of Polokwane Hospital
• It has 21 beds
CANSATLC Lodge Durban:
• 6 beds based at CANSA Mkhuhla Care Home

33. CANSA TLC Lodges
We have also launchedTLC Support Rooms at our CANSA
Kimberley Care Centre and CANSA Port Elizabeth Care
Centre
http://www.cansa.org.za/tlc-for-youth-and-families-
affected-by-cancer/

35. www.cansa.org.za
Toll-free 0800 22 66 22
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