Rebuilding strength after illness or a hospital stay, with familiar food and prayer kept constant.
A long hospital stay can be especially hard for a vegetarian elder who struggles to find food they will eat or staff who speak their language. Rehabilitation care at Bhakti Shyama Care Centre in Balham is a short stay that gives people recovering from a stroke, surgery or serious illness a culturally familiar place to regain strength.
The Gujarati vegetarian kitchen makes it easier to eat properly, and eating well supports recovery. Registered nurses oversee health and medication, and care staff encourage people to do more for themselves each day, with instructions explained in Gujarati or Hindi where this helps. Joining in Aarti or going out to the garden can become small daily goals.
Families from Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth Common are included in planning for the return home. If more time is needed, a stay can continue as respite care, subject to room availability, and those with continuing clinical needs can ask about nursing care.
Rehabilitation care at Bhakti Shyama is a temporary stay with nursing and personal support for elders rebuilding independence, in a Hindu setting. It takes place at 1 Balham New Road, London, SW12 9PH.
Bhakti Shyama Care Centre is at 1 Balham New Road, London, SW12 9PH, in the London Borough of Wandsworth area. The nearest station is Balham (Northern line and National Rail).
Hindu families asking about rehabilitation care here often live in Balham, Tooting, Clapham South, Streatham Hill and Wandsworth Common.
Phone 020 8772 1499 or email admin@
CQC Registered and Regulated. Bhakti Shyama Care Centre is registered with and inspected by the Care Quality Commission under location ID 1-333143159. Inspection reports and the current rating are published on the CQC website , which is always the up-to-date source.
Bhakti Shyama holds 9.1 out of 10 on carehome.co.uk, from 12 verified reviews that we do not collect ourselves.
Still unsure? Call 020 8772 1499 and talk it through.
Bhakti Shyama offers short rehabilitation stays after a stroke, surgery or serious illness, with a Gujarati vegetarian kitchen that makes it easier to eat properly, and eating well supports recovery. Registered nurses oversee health and medication. A long hospital stay can be especially hard for an elder who struggles to find food they will eat.
By encouraging people to do more for themselves each day, with instructions explained in Gujarati or Hindi where this helps. Joining in Aarti or going out to the garden can become small daily goals, and families from Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth Common are included in planning for the return home.
It may for a time. The NHS can provide free intermediate care after a hospital stay, usually for up to 6 weeks, and it can be in a care home, so ask the ward before discharge. If more time is needed at Bhakti Shyama, a stay can continue as respite care, subject to room availability.
See the rooms and garden, talk to the team in Gujarati, Hindi or English, and take all the time your family needs.
