More than a third of all senior citizens who live in a Munich nursing home are already dependent on social assistance because their own contribution to the home costs cannot be covered by their pension and their assets have been depleted. Residents with care grade 3, for example, have to pay between 3200 and 3700 euros a month in the first year in a single room in a home.That even exceeds the theoretically achievable maximum pension by far: Anyone who...
An 82-year-old man was found dead in his room in a retirement home in Gundelfingen an der Donau (Dillingen district). His 80-year-old roommate is said to have attacked the man on Wednesday night, according to a police statement on Friday. The 82-year-old suffered a head injury from blunt force trauma, a spokesman said. Both men are demented, which police say could have been a reason for the attack. Further details about the incident were initially unclear.The 80-year-old was arrested on...
Humiliated, injured, abused: many residents are simply at the mercy of some of the overwhelmed staff. And who cares? In any case, nobody would stick themselves in the street because of this suffering. source site
According to the authorities, a 63-year-old operator of two care service companies from the Upper Palatinate should not have paid social security contributions. The public prosecutor's office and the main customs office in Regensburg announced on Thursday that the man's business and living quarters were searched in the morning. The man has not yet commented on the allegations. It was said that he was suspected of belonging to the "Reichsbürger" scene.The man was arrested on Thursday, but on the basis...
Many of the children of parents in need of care are afraid of the social welfare office: in the past few weeks, places in nursing homes have become extremely expensive, often by 600 to 1000 euros per month. Since countless home residents can no longer pay for the escalating personal contributions, more and more are now dependent on social assistance, as the care protection association Biva has observed. In most cases, however, the fear that social welfare agencies will take...
The corona test obligation for visitors to hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities in Bavaria will be simplified for the Christmas season. From December 23 to January 9, tests from one of these facilities should also apply to others if they are not older than 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday morning. This applies to on-site testing as well as supervised on-site self-testing."In this way we relieve the facilities, their employees and the visitors," said Health Minister...
A 24-year-old former geriatric nurse has been sentenced to one year in prison for intentional bodily harm for attacking a senior with dementia. Before the Regensburg Regional Court, the Criminal Court ordered the man to be placed in a psychiatric facility. The sentence is to be suspended. The judges did not see intent to kill, as the 24-year-old had originally been accused of in the indictment. The verdict is not yet legally binding.According to the criminal court, the man should...
Poor care, a lack of staff and even violence against infirm people: the State Office for Nursing in Bavaria has received more than 400 complaints since March. The Verdi union speaks of the "tip of the iceberg".Of Claus OttThere are frightening numbers registered by Bavaria's state office for care. Terrifying because it is about human destinies. The state office based in Amberg in the Upper Palatinate set up an emergency call in the spring Care SOS. There, grievances in homes...
Please don't do anything! This is an unusual request from a superior, but in Regensburg it was sent in August in a circular to all employees of the university hospital. Subject line: "COVID-19: Institutional vaccination requirements". In the letter, the medical director of the clinic asks all affected employees "to wait for further developments and decisions and not to consider any measures to end their employment at the UKR". In plain language: Please do not resign, even if you are...
The case had caused a stir in Cham in the Bavarian Forest: According to the indictment, in February of this year in a nursing home in Cham, the geriatric nurse Manuel N. pressed a pillow on the face of a completely defenseless 68-year-old and closed his airways – for at least half a minute. The accused only let go of the man when he was already blushing, according to the prosecutor's office. A colleague who had just brought fresh bed...
