Seniors' cooperative

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Senior citizens' cooperatives are associations of people who want to support each other in everyday life so that their members can stay in their familiar surroundings (the apartment, the house) for as long as possible. Senior citizens' cooperatives arise where care for the elderly cannot be guaranteed by professional providers. Accordingly, they do not compete with them, but instead close gaps in the supply network.

history

The first senior citizens' cooperatives were founded in 1991 as part of a model project in Baden-Württemberg. One of these model projects, the Riedlingen senior citizens 'cooperative, still exists today, and accordingly represents the oldest German senior citizens' cooperative and serves as a model for many new initiatives.

The 2006 amendment to the Cooperative Act made it possible for cooperatives to be founded with social and cultural goals.

Billing systems

Senior citizens' cooperatives provide everyday services between the members. Members who work for the senior citizens' association receive a credit to their member account for this period, which they can use to receive assistance if they need help themselves.

There are different accounting systems at the senior citizens' cooperatives: time, money, points or a combination of money and time

legal form

The majority of senior citizens' cooperatives are organized in the legal form of eV ( registered association ) and eG ( registered cooperative ).

distribution

There are senior citizens' cooperatives in:

  • Baden-Württemberg
  • Bavaria
  • Hesse
  • Austria (Melk region)

Services

  • Assisted living (includes all necessary household help)
  • Help around the house (solving minor technical problems in the house and gardening)
  • Meals on wheels (brings warm food directly to the apartments at lunchtime)
  • Driving service (as a substitute for inadequate local public transport)
  • consultation
  • Contact telephone (offers the opportunity to obtain information and advice)
  • Visiting services (to help counteract loneliness)
  • Housing provision (in a barrier-free supervised residential complex)
  • Day care (relieves relatives who care for people in need of care at home)

Awards

The senior citizens' cooperative in Riedlingen received the IZT Future Prize in 2004 for the development of its model of how older people can get older actively and independently and in close contact with younger people in their district and in the familiar four walls. Another example is the Öcher Frönnde eV, which was founded in 2019 by the Federal Minister for Seniors, Dr. Franziska Giffey, was honored for the Zeitbank project .

Current research

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research funded a Germany-wide research project from 2013 to 2016 that examined senior citizens' cooperatives. In the period from 2014 to 2017, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research funded the research project "BUSLAR - Citizens 'Help Associations and Senior Citizens' Cooperatives as Partners for Services of General Interest - Model development for supplementary assistance for older people in rural areas" in the SILQUA-FH series. This project examined how self-organization z. B. in citizen aid associations in rural areas tasks of supporting older people are taken over. Politicians welcome this commitment in the hope that it could close gaps in public services of general interest to a certain extent - without adequate support, however, this commitment is endangered in the long term. For some time now, this form of commitment has been required both politically and socially for the care and support of older people. Older people in particular should take responsibility for the (expected) needs of the aging population in so-called 'caring communities'. However, this kind of socialization of these activities can solidify gender-specific inequalities.

literature

  • Ulrich Otto: Social integration plus service production. The “senior citizens' cooperative” as an attempt at innovation in politics for the elderly. In: Archive for Science and Practice of Social Work, ISSN  0340-3564 , Vol. 23 (1992), pp. 112-135.
  • Eugen Arnold: Future model for senior citizens' cooperative. Nature, tasks and possible cooperation with housing companies. In: Self-help in old age and senior citizens' cooperatives , Stuttgart 1991, pp. 57–62.
  • Norbert Necker: Prepared for retirement! - Suggestions for the implementation of an alternative housing model . Manuela Kinzel Verlag Göppingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-937367-48-4 .
  • Peter Kolakowski: A pension model with a future. The Riedlingen senior citizens' cooperative, best practice example 2. In: Pro Alter , ISSN  0946-4875 , vol. 42 (2010), pp. 17-20.
  • Bavarian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women: Guide to the establishment and design of senior citizens' cooperatives . Munich 2003.

Web links

  • faz.net - Article Retirement provision without fear of inflation from January 4, 2013 about the idea from the USA to Germany (accessed on March 5, 2014)
  • stmas.bayern.de - Website with general information including founding
  • www.nachbar-plus.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ | Press. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rosenkranz: Senior Citizens' Cooperatives in Germany. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Alisch, M .; Ritter, M .; Boos-Kruger, A .; Schoenberger, C .; Glaser, R .; Rubin, Y .; Solf-Leipold, B .: “At some point I'll need help too!” - Self-organization, commitment and shared responsibility of older people in rural areas . 1st edition. tape 17 . Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen, Berlin and Toronto 2018, ISBN 978-3-8474-2153-5 .
  4. ↑ Rubin, Y .: Volunteering in 'caring communities'. A gender critical analysis of voluntary care work for the elderly . tape 19 . Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen, Berlin and Toronto, ISBN 978-3-8474-2242-6 .