The panel discussion on the subject of “Dementia and Corona” in the hall of the Schongauer Ballenhaus was also included in the campaign weekend of the newly founded “Alzheimer Society Lechrain”.
Schongau
- Christian Osterried (director of the Heiliggeist Hospital Schongau), Nadja Guggenmos (AOK Schongau), Lolita Hönig (ward director of acute geriatrics in Schongau hospital) and deacon Hans Steinhilber (deacon of the two Schongau parishes and hospital chaplain) discussed this.
The chairwoman of the meeting was Doris Kettner.
She wanted to know how high the stress level is for the nursing staff of dementia patients.
Grades from one to ten were given.
Lolita Hönig sees the stress level in caring for patients with mental illnesses at seven to eight.
Deacon Steinhilber found that people have a feeling for it, "he is there for me, meets me at eye level".
The care also suffers in the church because of the corona protective measures.
Where God says "come to me".
At Christian Osterried, the load has risen to level eight since the corona outbreak and the associated additional tasks, as he said.
"What has Corona done to people with dementia in care?" Asked Doris Kettner.
Nadja Guggenmos has made the experience that families have canceled the care services for fear of Corona.
“They looked after their relatives alone 24 hours a day.” Steinhilber said that he had contacted the patients by telephone because the telephone counseling was extremely important.
Home manager Osterried said that with the given measures, the hospital had become a "closed facility" from one day to the next.
The alienation of the patient was already noticeable after two days.
After two months, some patients no longer recognized their relatives.
Lolita Hönig said that relatives had endured and persevered in the care: "Respect what relatives have shouldered."
And what has changed in care since Corona?
Christian Osterried maintained as much of the normality as possible in the hospital.
It is important to Lolita König that everyone is better networked when it comes to the protection and hygiene concept.
Hans Steinhilber, meanwhile, appeals to politicians that something must change: “We need more nursing staff.
Those that we have cannot do everything. "
The subject of the discussion was also calls for help from family carers: Nadja Guggenmos said that those in need of care were mostly cared for at home.
Relatives can go public, but she is not sure if they want to.
Deacon Steinhilber said: "We must all be the voice of the loved ones".
He also included the church.
Osterried said he no longer wants to see home residents die lonely because hospice helpers were not allowed to come to his bed.
Doris Kettner said that if residents of a home die from loneliness, nobody would be held liable, in the case of Corona if all the requirements were not met.
There were still a number of questions from the ranks of the 26 visitors, all of which were answered in detail by the experts on the stage.
They were all allowed to take home a bag full of informational materials.
Walter Kindlmann
