Klaus Schmitz seems mentally strong. Be a positive person. With 79 years of age, he provides and cares for his wife Marianne at home in the apartment in Lünen. She has Parkinson’s, dementia has been added. He will wash you, cook for you, attracts you, round-the-clock responsibility. “I’m as grown pure, it is normal for me,” says he. However, the corona crisis and the contact constraints make it difficult. Twice a week his wife was previously out of the house in the day care, but which is now almost everywhere dense in Germany.
“If this continues, it’s really bad”
Before Corona could he get out of time with the E-Bike, a bit of the Ruhr area to. As a diabetic, he must regularly go to the doctor. Now the Senior rushes just for shopping. He doesn’t want to complain. “I don’t want to fall into a deep valley.” But: “I feel lonely. My wife’s been talking about it for two years. My daughter and grandchildren no longer visit me, a couple also. All the way.” The only contact the care service to take care of in the morning to his wife. “You have to protect the sensitive Older. But we need a Golden mediocrity. The Old must not be visited, are locked – if this continues, it’s really bad.”
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The Director of an outpatient service in Lunen, Birgit Rückert, reported what she observed: “Many old people are sick, depressed, come up with the new situation is not clear.” You meet insecure, sad, isolated people. “The Older cry a lot. And we are not allowed to take more times in the Arm.” Also your employees are at the stop. Of their 70 nurses had received five contact to a sick patient, in quarantine.
“If it weren’t for us, Outpatient, would break the whole System,” says Rückert. Because most of the people will be at home taken care of. Of care professionals, and family members. For 2020 is expected to be around 4.3 million people who need it, estimates the Association for home care and maintenance (VHBP). More than three million – about three quarters – live at home, very often cared for by relatives. And come to about 1.2 million in need of care professionals, outpatient services, home, how VHBP, managing Director of Frederic Seebohm explained.
Up to 200,000 workers from Eastern Europe could be missing
Then – 300,000 to support people from Eastern Europe, often Polish women, who take care of day – to-day and in the households living there. “Depressing the fact is: you are 90% illegal and yet, in fact, a pillar of the care for older people in Germany,” says Seebohm. After Easter, most will not return due to Corona until Further notice, from the home. “The policy is in a quandary: you can’t say more than 270,000 in support of persons that they are here illegally and at the same time, ask them to stay or come back.”
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Up to 200,000 caregivers from Eastern Europe will be missing gradually, suspected Seebohm. “Either the field, the families themselves, but not as a permanent solution to. Or the supply is no longer ensured.”
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In the crisis of the outpatient area, stepfather, stepmother, perceived maternal, finds Christoph Treiß from the NRW-Association of free outpatient health care. “We provide the old, multi-morbid people who are particularly vulnerable to the infection.” In NRW alone, than 190,000 senior citizens day-to-day. “But we have almost no protective clothing. We could stand in front of the Dilemma: we Need to protect ourselves, we need to adjust the supply? Who should then take care of the old people?” The peak of the pandemic is not reached according to the experts, in Germany.
“Families are left woefully in the lurch”
Cs-Executive Director Treiß calls: “We all want to slow down the onset of the disease and adequate protective clothing for use in home care is a key to this.” Someone in the nursing service of the event, was also immediately noticeable. In spite of the high stress and strain from the work ethic was very high.
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Rückert, head of the outpatient service, added: “We are fighting every day to get disinfectant, protective clothing, and safe Mouth guard.” Nursing homes and hospitals would be preferred. Your own risk the outpatient forces aware of. “Especially if we accept people who come from the hospitals home, have to Worry about my employees that they are infected and you might catch up to you.”
For old-age care through outpatient services or family members of a basic level of protection is often not even present, writes Eugen Brysch of the Foundation for patient protection. Especially the loved ones in urgent need of support. “In the past, the Federal government, States and municipalities have families as the largest nursing service in Germany shamefully left in the lurch.”
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