Türk Bakım Evi
The Türk Bakım Evi in Berlin-Kreuzberg is the first Turkish nursing home ( bakım evi ) in Germany. The Turkish Community Berlin (TGB) has a stake in the house through its own pension scheme with the private nursing home operator Marseille-Kliniken AG. If all of the 155 beds available in the house (mostly double rooms) are occupied, 75 employees, mostly of Turkish origin, are employed.
The home is for Turkish migrants . There are Friday prayers , food without pork or pork fat, a prayer room oriented towards Mecca , intimate hygiene only by staff of the same sex.
Marseille Kliniken AG has invested 6 million euros in the project. The building, Methfesselstraße 47 at Viktoriapark , is a former workers' dormitory from the 1950s that has been renovated with an oriental decor. The location Berlin was chosen because the city has the largest Turkish community in Germany with 118,732 citizens.
Residents
The first generation of Turkish immigrants is now of retirement age. Most of the family members are employed, which is why traditional care in the large Turkish family is declining. Due to cultural and linguistic barriers, Turkish pensioners have seldom made use of the standard pension they are entitled to, which they had acquired by paying into the social security funds. Fewer than 100 Turkish migrants live in the 270 care facilities in Berlin. On the other hand, Turkish outpatient care services are reaching their limits. Of the 2 million Turks in Germany, 95,000 are of retirement age. 10.2% of Turks are over 60 years old, the number has almost quadrupled since 1995 from 52,200 to 192,500. Since the patients on average have a lower income than German pensioners, the nursing home is designed as a two-star house (low budget), 15 to 20 percent below the usual level. The risk of poverty also threatens migrants more than German pensioners, since Turkish seniors often retired early because of hard physical work and thus have less total working hours. Due to the 100% focus on this clientele, according to the German operator, German patients are expressly not wanted in the home.
Individual evidence
literature
- Jörg Niendorf: Care under the half moon. Huzur Evi - House to Feel Good - is the name of the first nursing home for Turkish seniors in Berlin. , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, October 1, 2006, No. 39 S.V21
- Marseille-Kliniken operate a nursing home for Turks in Berlin , Die Welt, 14 January 2006