Neighbourhood Old Age Homes (NOAH) is a unique, community-based organization that reaches out to social pensioners in the Western Cape. NOAH provides safe and affordable accommodation in the community preventative health care, advice and support a social hub centres, clubs and activities to help the elderly remain connected and active.

NOAH has 13 homes for the fit elderly in Stellenbosch, Atlantis, Elsies River, Rondebosch East, Athlone, Parow ,Woodstock and two assisted living homes in Woodstock and Khayelitsha for those who can no longer cope with daily activities on their own.

An expanding network of social clubs complements NOAH's centres for older people in Woodstock and Khayelitsha. A Geriatric Primary Health Care Clinic in Woodstock provides preventative and curative health care for the elderly with a special focus on monitoring and managing chronic conditions to avoid long term complications.

The challenges older people in South Africa face are complex and multiple being, poverty, isolation, homelessness, prejudice and failing health. NOAH's holistic approach ensures a continuum of care for the poor elderly, catering for all their needs

• Accommodated 114 elderly people in 15 houses for the fit elderly
• Cared for 29 elderly people in two assisted living facilities (McNulty in Woodstock and Nonkululeko in Khayelitsha)
• Engaged 265 members and regulars of the NOAH community centre in Woodstock, reaching out to many more with events like masses, celebrations or teas
• Provided health care to 195 elderly people who are members of the Geriatric Primary Health Care Clinic in Woodstock 
• Reached 90 older people and their extended families and surrounding community with our HIV/Aids awareness training in Khayelitsha
• Supported 45 members of the Monwabisi Social Club in Khayelitsha, helping them to keep engaged and active
• Reached out to a further 50 to 100 people making use of NOAH's Khayelitsha Centre

• Accommodation and housing for the fit elderly
• Assisted-living homes
• A primary health care clinic 
• A network of social clubs
• Community centres for the elderly to visit during the day

NOAH's main long term objective is to provide safe and affordable housing for the poor elderly within their communities. Our other ongoing objectives are to provide quality primary health care and a variety of social activities to achieve a continuum of care which provides for all the complex needs of older people in a holistic way.

In the coming year, NOAH plans to:

• Expand the social clubs model in Khayelitsha by establishing two more clubs
• Provide skills development and activities training for members of both the Khayelitsha and Woodstock social clubs
• Pilot a project giving residents in NOAH's outlying houses access to our Woodstock-based nursing sister twice a year to enable her to monitor health problems
• Raise awareness of the implications of diabetes and hypertension (the two most common conditions in the elderly) by providing educational talks
• Expand our accommodation capacity at our Khayelitsha and Woodstock assisted living homes