Activating care
Activating care is a nursing practice in which the independence and self-determination of people being cared for is encouraged and supported. It is a form of helping people to help themselves and is intended to prevent existing skills from being lost. In the care measures , care is taken to support the person being cared for as little as necessary, but as much as necessary in order to promote their self-care skills. The aim is to prevent skills from decreasing further due to a lack of physical and mental exercise and to increase the self-esteem of those who are well cared for.
Even if activating care is seen as an ideal care style, implementation often fails due to lack of time, in particular due to the time specifications drawn up by the medical service of the health insurance companies or the need for those being cared for instead of doing things themselves. Sometimes activating care is rejected by caregivers because it may result in the person being cared for in a lower care level .
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Ministry of Health : Activating Care, accessed on June 29, 2020
- ↑ Bärbel Ekert, Christiane Ekert: Psychologie für Pflegeberufe Thieme, 2005 ISBN 978-3131389619 p. 84