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Senior housing project in Gmund is taking shape

2021-11-28T17:06:07.100Z


With a fundamental decision and a number of details, the municipal council has set the course for a senior-friendly housing project in Gmund. With the support of the state coordination office for living in old age, planning should now begin. However, the location is still open.


With a fundamental decision and a number of details, the municipal council has set the course for a senior-friendly housing project in Gmund.

With the support of the state coordination office for living in old age, planning should now begin.

However, the location is still open.

Gmund - The fact that the project has the highest priority in the community is clear from the speed with which Mayor Alfons Besel (FWG), the local council and administration are promoting the issue of living in old age.

After a retreat in March, an expert workshop in June, an information trip by the municipal council to a multi-generation house in the Traunstein district, a workshop on the LEADER project “Alpine Foreland” as well as an event with citizens at the end of September, a special session of the Municipal council already has a decision in principle on the agenda.

Support from the coordination office

The community has been supported from the start by the government-sponsored coordination office for living in old age, a project that is part of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration and the Working Group for Social Planning and Age Research (AfA) in Munich.

At the meeting, AfA representative Anja Preuss summarized what had been worked out in the previous participation process.

The project aims to enable senior citizens to determine their own retirement age

After a long discussion, it turned out that instead of a multi-generation house, senior citizens should be the target group of a residential project. In addition to apartments for single people, apartments for couples should also be planned. All apartments should remain the property of the municipality and be rented out at a socially reasonable price. The living space should explicitly be made available to locals. In order to be able to lead a self-determined retirement, a central location should be chosen. In addition, the residential project should have common rooms and areas in the outdoor area in order to promote the house community and communication. That the common rooms are designed as "extended living rooms" and in such a way that low-threshold offers are also possible for other seniors in the community,was important to everyone. Here one wants to orientate oneself on the Rottach multigenerational house, which Gmund senior citizens like to visit.

Now the concrete planning should start

In order to be able to offer a contact and advice center to all senior citizens in the residential project and in general in the community, a “carer” should be hired.

A concept is also to be developed under the title “Community as a quarter”.

In the end, all these points were unanimously decided, as was the further procedure: The administration, together with the coordination office, should now start planning and propose a planning office.

Examples that have already been implemented are to be included in the planning, funding opportunities for construction, ongoing operations, the district concept and personnel costs are to be examined.

Outpatient care should be possible up to a high level of care

“Great, now we've come a good step further, the project is taking shape,” said Besel, relieved at the end. A number of suggestions and concerns that were expressed at the meeting at the council table were incorporated into the decisions. For example, the requirement of Georg Rabl (FWG), who called for wheelchair-accessible bathroom equipment as an absolute "basic". Besel could not follow the introduction of Third Mayor Christine Zierer (FWG), who wanted a kind of "branch of the Schwaighof" and missed the care offer. "We don't want that right now," he said. Anja Preuss added the knowledge from previous debates that the topic of care is critical because of the lack of specialist staff.Rather, the barrier-free furnishing of the apartments will enable outpatient care up to a high level of care.

Project includes around 30 apartments

"What size are we talking about in the project?" Franz von Preysing (CSU) wanted to know.

According to Anja Preuss, around 30 apartments of different sizes would be needed.

"That makes about 2000 square meters," Rabl added up.

The next step is to decide where the residential project is now being planned.

Two plots are already conceivable: on Wiesseer Strasse next to the parking lot for the Kaltenbrunn lido and on Hirschbergstrasse, where a development plan for multi-family houses already exists.

Both would be the required size.

Source: merkur

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