You can imagine the situation: suddenly and without any warning, everything is different. The just sprightly single father suffers a stroke. As a result, he needs care. But who can you turn to now, the son asks himself? How do you actually apply for a nursing degree? Can you even afford home care? And what stationary facilities are there in the district? In short: “How do you find your way in the jungle of care?” This is how District Administrator Stefan Frey (CSU) put it on Monday when presenting the district’s new care base. The central counseling center is in Starnberg and is intended to show those affected and their relatives offers of help and options in terms of care.
According to Frey, around 14,000 district citizens are older than 80 years. Questions of this kind and related decisions could quickly become an urgent issue for you and your family. The tasks of the new nursing base will include better networking of the 33 nursing services in the district and including social services in the care plan. The cooperation with the BRK and the neighborhood help Inning is already close. Now they also want to set up an always up-to-date nursing place exchange, which is reliably stocked by the 14 nursing homes in the district. Once a week, an employee from the district of Upper Bavaria will be available at the base to answer questions. Friedrich Büttner, head of the social affairs department in the Starnberg district office, also expects various improvements from the new base. “Because there are still deficits,” he says. In his opinion, too few providers in the district have been offering household-related services so far. In addition, there is currently a lack of short-term care facilities and night care facilities. In addition, there is still no hospice in the Fünfseenland.
The new counseling center is headed by Marcus Effertz. The 54-year-old is a trained nurse. He is assisted by the two trained nursing advisors Annette Schubert, 51, and Annette Henrike Pott, 31. All three hope that word of the new offer of help will get around among the citizens as quickly as possible.
In 2020, the district council decided to set up a central care base that will provide citizens with advice and support in the future. A large part of the annual costs of 212,000 euros are borne jointly by the long-term care insurance funds and municipal umbrella organizations. The district accounts for 35,400 euros. The counseling center at Moosstraße 18b is on the third floor and can be reached barrier-free via a lift. Appointments can be made by calling 08151/148 777 33. The building already houses debt and insolvency advice, the specialist office for senior citizens, as well as pension advice and the district’s commissioner for the disabled, Maximilian Mayer. The technical college (FOS) is to move into the ground floor.