Reply from Ulm
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SoLiLL Project Group "Bread and Housing"
New Forms of Accommodation for Seniors
Introduction
In Germany there are a number of new forms of accommodation for people in the
Third Age or people who are in need of continuous nursing care. Since the
privatisation of old peoples' care and since the introduction of Social Nursing
Care Insurance Law of 1995 in Germany, a market providing new interesting forms
of accommodation came to being. Not all these experiments have been successful.
The positive idea of >>"Supervised Accommodation" was welcomed by many older people, because it
combined a high degree of private atmosphere and a provision of external nursing
care when there was need for it. However, what was not taken into consideration
at the beginning were the relatively high costs for the nursing care when this
became necessary. Besides this, the "Supervised Accommodation "
suffered a loss of image after some houses went bankrupt as the financial return
from rentals did not cover the costs of their expensive building and equipment (Please
see article in "Spiegel", issue No. 7, February 2002, >>"Endstation Sehnsucht" ).
Due to the large number of housing forms and experiments, this study can
cover only a number of selected examples. These are both private initiatives as
well as initiatives of institutions. In many cases, these are still in
experimental stage but have shown promising results up to now. We did rely
mainly on researches in the Internet. The examples we have selected are:
- Care for the elderly in substitute families (Altenpflegefamilie)
- Offensive Aging (Offensives Altern e.V.)
- Inter-generational living (Generationsgemischtes Wohnen)
- Young and Old Under One Roof
- Not Alone and Not in a Nursing Home
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