Sophie Guyer Alterszentrum

Sophie Guyer Alterszentrum is a foundation based in Pfäffikon ZH, Switzerland working on elderly care, health.

Sophie Guyer Alterszentrum is a non-profit foundation (gemeinnützige Stiftung) that operates a retirement and care centre in Pfäffikon ZH, Switzerland. The centre offers barrier-free rental flats and studios with optional services, residential care rooms, a dementia residential group, short-term respite care for relatives, and acute and transitional care after hospital stays. Services include meals in its restaurants and cafeteria, laundry, housekeeping and a 24-hour emergency service. The foundation also runs the public Spitex Pfäffikon/Hittnau home-care service, which is integrated into the foundation, and offers training places in nursing and activation. The foundation traces its origins to the 1906 bequest of Sophie Gujer-Zimmermann, which funded an asylum for poor and elderly people in Pfäffikon. The buildings were added in stages from 1912 onwards and are linked by underground corridors. The centre is religiously neutral and is funded partly through donations, including for the Spitex service.