For several days, the residents of old people's homes in the district have been vaccinated against the corona virus.
Almost everyone participates - both residents and carers.
Bad Toelz-Wolfratshausen -
As Marlis Peischer, spokeswoman for the district authority, reports, the district received the second delivery of vaccination doses last Tuesday.
The district nursing home in Lenggries was added on the same day, where, according to Peischer, most of the residents willingly let themselves be poked.
There are three mobile teams on the road in the district, each consisting of at least one doctor and medical staff.
Also on Tuesday and Wednesday, teams stopped off at the Lindenhof retirement homes in Schlehdorf and Seehof in Kochel.
Jörg Kahl heads both institutions.
In Schlehdorf, where 16 patients in the geronto area are now infected with Covid-19, the entire floor with the sick was isolated, according to Kahl.
Of the other residents, 85 percent had themselves vaccinated, and 90 percent of the staff.
“This protection is of course all the more important for us at the moment,” says the home manager.
The infected residents are believed to be immune for a while.
You could be re-vaccinated at a later date.
According to Kahl, around 85 percent of the residents and around a third of the employees in the care sector in Kochel had a vaccination on themselves.
Some persuasion still has to be done
Siegfried Hammer, head of the Haus am Park in Bad Tölz, wants to set a good example and immediately have himself given an injection at the announced vaccination date on New Year's Eve.
Not all of his employees have decided to accept the free offer, says Hammer.
After all, you would still have the option of going to the vaccination centers in Bad Tölz or Wolfratshausen at a later date.
Of the residents - some in assisted living, some in the nursing home - around two thirds of the total of 120 senior citizens registered for the mobile vaccination on the last day of the year.
"Some are still skeptical," reports Hammer.
He has seen many discussions on the subject.
He personally trusts science.
Immunizing a large part of the population is "the only way to break the pandemic".
Difficult consideration for people with dementia
Gabi Strauhal from the Dementia Center of Workers' Welfare (AWO) in Wolfratshausen is of this opinion.
She has made a reservation for the mobile vaccination planned for January 2nd.
“We all want the lockdown to end,” she says.
Strauhal emphasizes that this is her very personal view.
She did not try to influence the relatives of the residents or their colleagues.
A declaration of consent for the vaccination is available for only about half of the currently 60 patients with dementia.
The relatives or caregivers would have to decide here.
“It's a difficult trade-off.
There is still little information available, ”says Strauhal.
She tried to pass on what she had read on the websites of the Robert Koch Institute and the Ministry of Health as well as possible in phone calls.
But one thing is certain: the more of her protégés who suffer from dementia are vaccinated, the easier it will be to visit them in the future.
Because the residents are mostly unable to comply with the hygiene rules due to their illness (“they don't understand why they are suddenly no longer allowed to hug their husband or daughter”), visits in the past should have been severely restricted.
Criticism of the bureaucratic effort
The ASB Seniorenwohnpark Isar-Loisach in Wolfratshausen does not have a date yet.
Facility manager Sarah Wildmann reports problems with the declarations of consent.
There were new forms at short notice that still had to be filled out.
But she estimates that the fact that around two thirds of seniors want to be vaccinated will remain the case.
Haus Elisabeth in Geretsried also received updated forms shortly before Christmas.
Nursing manager Swetlana Eigenseer criticizes the bureaucratic effort.
So far, around half of the 135 residents have given their consent to the vaccination.
In his own words, Eigenseer does not yet know when this will take place.
In homes with infected people, there is initially no vaccination
Hildegard Seidl, head of nursing at the Caritas St. Hedwig home for the elderly in Geretsried, is also waiting for an email to announce the vaccination date.
In her house, the anticipation for the action is very great.
"70 of our 99 senior citizens are not afraid of the spades," says Seidl.
So far, 24 out of 72 employees have opted for mobile vaccination.
Above all, Seidl hopes that the serial tests for Covid-19 can be gradually reduced with mass vaccination.
The residents are smeared once a week and the staff twice a week.
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According to the district office spokeswoman, homes with corona outbreaks are not vaccinated because it is assumed that the patients will subsequently be immune. Peischer: "Of course, residents who are authorized to vaccinate but not infected receive a vaccination as soon as the outbreak in such a home is classified as over."
Tanja Lühr