Residential Care

Ghigo Community Residence is equipped to provide for 24-hour person centred care in comfortably homely surroundings with beautiful countryside views within the village of Ghaxaq in the south of Malta. The residence is fully furnished and decorated to high standard whilst incorporating a range of practical design features presented discreetly. Fully fitted with a modern nurse call system ensuring help is at hand 24-hours a day, while specially equipped bathrooms, wheelchair access and lifts make day to day life more accessible. All residential rooms have comfortable, self-contained bedrooms, with en-suite facilities and all featuring fitted telephone, television wi-fi access and nurse call service points.

Home to home

Our commitment is to do everything we can to help you feel at home. After all, feeling well looked after is as much about creating a sense of home as it is about providing good quality care. We’ll help you to become familiarised with the residence and its routine activities. Once settled, our management will check to find out if there’s more we can do to help you feel at home. There will always be someone with the time to sit down for a chat about anything at all, however big or small.

philosophy of care

Our aim is to provide the highest standard of care for elderly people in a comfortable and secure environment. Each individual resident’s independence and dignity is of paramount importance. All residents shall be treated as individuals. This will be achieved through establishing a flexible approach to their needs, so that each individual can be given the care that is most suited to them, taking into account personal choices and abilities. Our residents will be encouraged to make their own choices and decisions for themselves, within their capabilities.

Charter of rights

Residents will always have the right to be treated as an individual and with dignity at all times no matter what disabilities or conditions they may have. They have the right to pursue independence, responsibilities and choice as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others. Individuals will have the right to privacy in relation to one’s space, one’s own belongings and one’s own financial and personal affairs. Confidentiality will be adhered to in relation to residents’ medical and personal information.