Elderly care

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A nurse picks up seniors from the day care unit of a nursing home for treatment

In Germany, geriatric care is defined as legally certain measures and initiatives to promote and support the elderly. This can happen in institutions or in an open, so-called low - threshold way.

"Open" does not mean the spatial arrangement, but the high degree of non-commitment for the client. A day care facility can be visited by the hour or regularly.

An old people's home is an “institution for care for the elderly”, its sponsor - a non-profit organization or a commercial enterprise - a “organization for care for the elderly”. Outpatient services and social stations are also "geriatric care institutions", which provide people in need of care with care for the elderly and the sick in their own home for a fee . Employees there are part of the professional care with various professional qualifications.

The elderly as a professionalized profession in the field of elderly care is concerned with the care and the care of elderly people in other institutions such. B. day care center for the elderly , nursing home with a focus on geriatric psychiatry , day clinic , geriatric psychiatry as part of a hospital or on an individual contract basis.

Elderly assistance can also be the name of a certain form of financial support from the social welfare office.

Main article: Elderly assistance (social benefit)

In addition, care for the elderly is also understood as a form of social care, beyond nursing or domestic care forms that z. B. be offered by Caritas and Diakonie , i.e. within the framework of the parishes.

Main article: Elderly care

See also

literature

  • David Thiele: Shared apartments for senior citizens and people with disabilities. 2016 ISBN 978-3-658-11774-0 .
  • Nando Belardi, Marlies Fisch: Aid for the elderly. An introduction to study and practice. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1999.

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