Ou Meule Home (Old Mill)
Ou Meule (Old Mill) started in 1973 and was converted from an old
mill.
This is the frail care or care centre unit of DROOM.
Accommodation: 74 frail residents of which:
- 42 single rooms
- 12 double rooms
- 2 four ( 4) bedded rooms on the first floor where the more frail elderly are accommodated.
- Plans are being implemented to convert six of the double rooms on the ground floor into 4 rooms each with an en-suite bathroom.
Services offered at DROOM are:
- Outsourced private catering company provides 3 balanced meals per day
- Laundry and cleaning done by the same private company
- 24 nursing services- for the frail and care-centre unit
- Full time professional management
- Activities for the frail provided mainly by volunteers
- Bible study
- Church services broadcasted from the Dutch Reformed Church
- Weekly visits from the local provincial hospital doctor
- Transport to the PPH clinic and private doctors
- Hairdresser
- Two weekly visit from the local library
- Automatic membership of the Service Centre at DROOM
- Social trips organized by the Service Centre.