Nursing places only on paper: BRK division manager raises the alarm due to staff shortages
Created: 05/13/2022, 07:00
There are not enough helping hands in care - and that in an aging society.
© Christophe Gateau/dpa
Despite new care facilities for seniors, there is a nursing shortage in Gauting.
There is no lack of space, but there is a lack of staff.
Marcus Wicke from the BRK raised the alarm at the Senior Advisory Board.
Gauting - Despite the newly built Marienstift of Caritas and the recently completed nursing home in the BRK multi-generation campus, there is a nursing shortage in Gauting.
BRK division manager Marcus Wicke made this clear in the senior advisory board meeting.
There is currently a lack of specialist staff.
The surplus of 28 inpatient care places only exists on paper, says Wicke.
Because of the two new building complexes "Marienstift" and multi-generation campus, according to the needs plan of the district, 1248 inpatient care places would be available.
In day care with a need for 80 to 95 places, there is an increase of seven places.
By 2030, the forecast need for inpatient care places in Gauting, which currently has over 5,000 seniors, will rise to 1,405 places, he calculated.
"Exchange a handicapped-accessible two-room apartment in the heart of Gauting for a home," Wicke quoted the current emergency call from a daughter on social media: "Unfortunately, we can no longer join forces to take care of my mom at home.
And unfortunately we can't find a home in Gauting.
It's very urgent." Because in reality there are beautiful new homes, but no nursing staff.
Ten to 20 percent of the places could not be occupied nationwide due to a lack of staff.
Not even in the multi-generational campus, which now houses refugees from Ukraine.
"Nobody talks about it," regrets Wicke.
In addition, there are the 80 percent of those in need of care, most of whom are cared for at home by their relatives, by outpatient services or by assistants.
Demand increases exponentially as baby boomers retire
When the baby boomer generation, an average of 1.3 million people per year, reaches retirement age from 2024, the need for caregivers will increase “exponentially”.
With the retirement of these baby boomers from active working life, the nationwide shortage of skilled workers is getting worse.
Because of too much bureaucracy, peak workloads, a lack of roster security and strict home supervision, the nursing staff work at the limit.
On average, there is one nurse for every 13 patients to be cared for.
Wicke knew from comparative figures that there were an average of only 7.9 patients per specialist in Switzerland, 7.7 in Sweden and 5.3 in the USA.
Reports such as “Violence in Nursing” do not give care a good image and it is poorly paid, according to the speaker.
With metropolitan area, public holiday and shift allowances, after three years of training, a nursing specialist comes to 3717 euros gross.
Only 2200 euros remained in tax class 1.
In the metropolitan area of Munich, where the rent for an apartment would be 800 to 1000 euros, "you don't make big leaps with that".
Recruiting skilled workers from abroad or robotics for basic care like in Japan would be solutions, Wicke found and said: "Hope dies last."
Advisory Board Chairman Dr.
Klaus Wagner called for more publicity for the problem of "nursing care".
The Gauting Senior Advisory Council will ask the mayor and municipal council to take action via a “condensed statement”.
He is also planning a public event with politicians and providers of nursing homes and outpatient services.
Because the problem with the new case law of the Federal Labor Court is aggravating, Wagner continues.
Families who have a relative cared for by an Eastern European around the clock at home could not pay a minimum wage of twelve euros per hour.
Christine Cless-Wesle
You can also read about staff shortages in geriatric care:
Both outpatient and inpatient facilities in the Starnberg district are struggling.
Your concerns are not new, but the situation is getting worse and worse.
