Projects and Activities
Dean Foundation provides:
- Free quality and compassionate care to patients suffering from irreversible illness and to members of the family in the privacy of their own homes.
- Medical treatment with focus on controlling pain and other distressing symptoms connected with end stage disease.
- Help to meet social, emotional and spiritual needs without discrimination but with love, acceptance and dignity.
- Support to empower the patient and the family by helping them to find strength in themselves and by giving them the knowledge to make informed choices.
- Advice on nutritional requirements.
- Specially trained medical staff who works closely with the patient’s primary care physician, if necessary, to oversee care and treatment.
- Bereavement support to the families
The activities of the organization can be divided into five main categories:
- Home care-based program
- Out-patient program
- Counseling and Bereavement Support
- Advocacy for Palliative Care
- Training
The Foundation also runs an awareness program carried out in the Panchayats of Kancheepuram Districts.
Dean Foundation operates in the city of Chennai and the districts of Kancheepuram and Coimbatore. The Foundation reaches the urban and rural poor, and others who require palliative treatment.
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