Rappertshofen Reutlingen
Rappertshofen Reutlingen is a non-profit organization for people with physical and multiple disabilities, state sponsored by Habila GmbH . The core facility is located in the north of the Baden-Württemberg district town of Reutlingen between the districts of Orschel-Hagen and Rommelsbach . In addition to the core facility, numerous community-integrated offers have been set up in other areas of Reutlingen as well as in Tübingen and Nürtingen .
Rappertshofen sees itself as a service provider for people with disabilities . In addition to professional care and differentiated assistance services, the central idea of the participation of people with disabilities in society is the focus of all offers.
history
Rappertshofen was founded in 1894 as a "rural poor institution" for initially 155 people with the aim of caring for sick homeless people and giving them work in the home farm. As early as 1905, the facility was so overcrowded that the building was expanded to accommodate an additional 200 people, especially mentally ill people from all parts of the Württemberg and Hohenzollern areas. As in many other facilities for the disabled, during the dictatorship of National Socialism , a total of 73 people were deported from Rappertshofen in 1940 as part of the “ euthanasia ” campaign T4 and murdered in the Grafeneck killing center on the Swabian Alb. After the Second World War , Rappertshofen served as the central state retirement home for the whole of Baden-Württemberg . In the years 1970–1976, the facility's premises were completely rebuilt by the sponsor, the Württemberg-Hohenzollern State Welfare Association , into a complex facility for up to 260 people with physical and multiple disabilities. In recent years, one of the main goals of the facility has been to decentralize its services from the core facility to the surrounding cities and communities. Today 190 people still live in the core facility in Rappertshofen, 75 people are currently cared for in decentralized housing offers.
Rappertshofen core facility
Rappertshofen is a modern complex facility for people with physical and multiple disabilities . In addition to in-patient care offers, disabled people will find a wide range of day care in the facility. The living area has, among other things, a supply contract according to SGB XI (long-term care insurance), so that physically handicapped people receive the full benefits of the long-term care insurance. One area of the facility specializes as “neurological long-term care” on the care and support of people with severe neurological damage up to the vegetative state .
day care
In addition to a workshop for disabled people (WfbM), the facility has different departments and a wide range of day care options: occupational therapy , curative education , art therapy , sports therapy, care for the elderly, animal-assisted activities , computer-assisted learning. An individual weekly plan is drawn up for each participant based on their inclinations, needs and the desired goals from the day care offer, which is updated regularly. The therapeutic and medical care is provided by physiotherapists and a general practitioner on site. If the participants' general ability to act improves over time, then the transition to the WfbM can be prepared in a targeted manner on the basis of work assignments made available by the WfbM. The WfbM offers numerous interesting jobs and operates, among other things, bookshops, post offices and canteens / canteens in the area.
Decentralized housing and care offers
In the course of its decentralization process, the facility has set up offers in the districts of Reutlingen , Tübingen and Esslingen . Four small residential groups have now been founded in the city of Reutlingen, and almost 30 people are looked after on an outpatient basis in their own apartment. In Tübingen, Rappertshofen currently has 3 residential groups and several apartments for outpatient care. The Heinrichshöhe residential group was opened in Nürtingen in 2010, and outpatient care is currently being set up there. The focus of these decentralized offers is the networking of offers in the social space, the aspect of self-determination for disabled people and their full participation in life in society.
Support association
A development association supports numerous activities of the facility, including leisure and vacation trips.
literature
- Thomas Stöckle: The state welfare institution Reutlingen-Rappertshofen and the "euthanasia" campaign T4. Reutlingen 2000