The plans are running: the starting signal for the conversion and renovation in Lenzheim is to be given in 2021.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Somehow surreal. For the employees, for the residents. "You can hardly believe that it really starts," says Rahel Schön, head of Lenzheim in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The topic of renovation has been around for years. Nothing happened. Now things are really moving. Planning with the architect is already underway. The project is scheduled to start in 2021. There is even a motto: "Modern meets classic".
The house has tradition, developed in the 1960s / 70s from a children's course to a nursing home of the Lenzheim health club. Since 2006 it has been run by the Rummelsberger Diakonie. Around 120 senior citizens are looked after around the clock on Reintalstrasse. In principle, the property has good substance and is visually appealing, says the 25-year-old, who took on the post of manager at the beginning of the year. The catch: the four parts of the building each come from a different time. "Nothing is on the same level."
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Enclosed garden area
The protective area is realized in an extension on the building side with a winter garden.
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A few steps are on the program. This includes an extension to the conservatory. The existing building consists of three floors with an attic, the annex should only have two floors. It will serve as a so-called protective area. That means that patients who suffer from massive dementia move in there. A group of people whose number is increasing enormously in the region due to demographic change. And special arrangements have to be made. People “have an urge to move,” says Schön. "We have to make sure that nobody leaves." Therefore, there will be a separate and locked garden area.
Lenzheim currently only offers classic care. Schön and her team try to provide inpatient short-term care if there are free places available. It is about people who need to be built up after a hospital stay or who are in the pre-rehab phase. In the future, about 20 such places will be available. In this part of the building, apartments with their own entrance are planned for some of the approximately 80 employees. So far there are 13 of them. “There are more,” says the manager. She doesn't know exactly how many yet. Nor can she estimate the cost of the project.
Bathrooms too small
A lot changes spatially. Just because of the regulations. Twin rooms become single rooms. The wet rooms also no longer meet the requirements. The equipment in general is put to the test. In addition, a friendlier color concept is planned. The "fine tuning" is only due after the construction of the new building. When everyone has moved in.
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Schön attaches particular importance to the fact that all care places are preserved during the construction period. Therefore, this turns out correspondingly long. "We hope to be finished by 2025 or 2026."