Hufeland House

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The Hufeland-Haus is a social, non-profit organization in Frankfurt-Seckbach . In the area of ​​care for the elderly and the handicapped, the facility, essentially an inpatient care facility for care for the elderly, had several models or pioneers in character. On November 9, 1964, it was opened as the largest retirement and nursing home in Hesse with 331 places. At the same time, a kindergarten opened for the nursing staff, which, according to the company, was the first company kindergarten in Frankfurt am Main. In 1973, the first day care facility for senior citizens in Germany was opened in the Hufeland House, and further offers were developed over the course of the year to enable older people to lead an independent life at home despite their limitations. These include mobile social assistance, car service, assisted living and meals on wheels. The geriatric nursing school of the Hufeland-Haus has existed since 1977; in 2018, in anticipation of the nursing professions law applicable from 2020, it was renamed the Educational Center for Nursing. In 1997 the clinic for geriatric rehabilitation was established, today the clinic for geriatrics of the St. Katharinen Hospital . Since 2004 the Hufeland-Haus has also been available to younger people, i.e. H. available to people with a physical disability under the age of 65.

Naming and conception

The name “Hufeland-Haus” was given in 1974, for the 10th anniversary of the “Inner Mission's Retirement and Sickness Home”, as the facility was called until then. The renaming took place after the doctor Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland in order to underpin the new claim of the house to rehabilitation and the associated activating care that arose in the early 1970s . Because of his understanding of aging as a process that can be influenced, Hufeland is considered a pioneer of modern geriatrics. In addition, he gained fame not only because of his prominent clientele, but also caring for the poor was important to the Protestant doctor at the Prussian court. For these reasons, he seemed to the management of the house and its sponsor, the Evangelical Association for Inner Mission Frankfurt , particularly suitable as a namesake.

As a result, the therapeutic-rehabilitative claim was consistently implemented in the Hufeland House: In addition to one of the first therapy departments (1972 occupational therapy, 1973 physiotherapy), the exercise pool (non-swimmer therapy pool with a water temperature of 32 ° C) and the hydrotherapy department were also opened in 1976. During this time there was close cooperation with the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe (KDA) and with Ursula Lehr , gerontologist and later Federal Minister of Health. She gave the keynote address on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Hufeland House and emphasized the exemplary nature of the conception of the house.

The "Help Center" was built in 1976 for therapy and day care. This also enabled the building to be opened to external users, especially in the own district. In 1989, the newly founded outpatient care service also moved into its premises here. Today, about the same number of external customers use services as the residents living in the house.

Service areas

  • Housing and care sector (nursing home and "young care" living area for younger people with physical disabilities, a total of 151 places) (with supply contract)
  • Help center (outpatient care service, day care and low-threshold offers, a total of approx. 180 customers) (with supply contract)
  • Practice for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy (with health insurance)
  • Training center for nursing (formerly geriatric nursing school): 6 courses in generalist nursing training, further training for practical instructors (WPO nursing), 180 places
  • Day care center (24 kindergarten places, 24 day nursery places)
  • Exercise pool (therapy pool)
  • Cafeteria (lunch restaurant, café, snacks and kiosk items for everyone)

particularities

  • Networked system of domestic, outpatient, semi-inpatient and inpatient offers
  • Clinic for geriatrics of the Katharinen hospital in the house
  • Academic teaching institution of the Nursing course at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Faculty 4)
  • Cooperation with the institute outpatient department of the Hohe Mark Clinic (weekly gerontopsychiatric consultation hours in the Hufeland house)
  • Practice for orthopedics and trauma surgery (on the premises)
Art Multi-part, non-profit organization for the elderly and the disabled
address Wilhelmshöher Str. 34
place Frankfurt am Main (Seckbach)
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ N, 8 ° 43 ′ 14 ″ E
Internet www.hufeland-haus.de
Number of employees (as of February 2017) > 200
carrier Evangelical Association for Inner Mission Frankfurt,

Ludolfusstrasse 2-4, 60389 Frankfurt am Main

literature

  • Martin Barschke, Holger Hothum, Markus Förner (eds.): The Hufeland House: 50 Years of the Diaconal Network for Social Services (Festschrift for the 50th anniversary 1964–2014), Frankfurt am Main 2014
  • Hans Gustav Treplin (ed.): Evangelical Association for Inner Mission 1850–1990 (Festschrift for the 140th anniversary of Inner Mission Frankfurt), Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Siegfried Gößling: The old people's home becomes a help center , special print from the specialist journal “Das Altenheim”, issue 10, Hanover 1976
  • Ursula Lehr: 1964–1984 Review of 20 years of gerontology in practice (lecture on the 20th anniversary of the Hufeland House), unpublished, Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Rolf Gennrich, Annette Scholl: Day care - an often misunderstood jewel of geriatric care in Pro Alter 4/98, pp. 37–40

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "A bulwark against fear of life - Largest Hessian retirement and nursing home inaugurated / 14.1 million marks construction costs" - Frankfurter Rundschau from November 10, 1964
  2. ^ "Retirement and nursing home of the Inner Mission in Frankfurt a. M./Seckbach 1964–1974 "(Festschrift for the 10th anniversary)
  3. ↑ BiZeP training center for care in Hufeland-Haus: Home. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 12 ″  E