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25 years Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus in Moosburg: "We are a colorful bunch"

2022-08-11T10:08:37.873Z


25 years Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus in Moosburg: "We are a colorful bunch" Created: 08/11/2022, 12:00 p.m The residents really enjoy the cozy get-together. Bright sunshine accompanied the Maifest in the facility this year. © private The Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus is a residential building for people with multiple severe disabilities. The facility in Moosburg has been in existence for 25 yea


25 years Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus in Moosburg: "We are a colorful bunch"

Created: 08/11/2022, 12:00 p.m

The residents really enjoy the cozy get-together.

Bright sunshine accompanied the Maifest in the facility this year.

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The Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus is a residential building for people with multiple severe disabilities.

The facility in Moosburg has been in existence for 25 years.

Moosburg

– 25 years ago Anneliese Schweinberger used her inheritance to lay the financial foundation for the residential building named after her in Moosburg, which is part of the Lebenshilfe Freising.

She was supported by the tireless collection of donations from Juliane Maier and her family.

After a relatively short construction period, which started in 1996 and ended a year later, the Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus (ASH) was opened and offered space for 24 residents with severe multiple disabilities.

Due to the high demand, three more rooms were converted almost immediately to meet this demand.

At the same time, the district supported the construction of residential buildings for people with multiple severe disabilities.

Today 26 residents have found their home in the ASH.

"The residents and employees of the ASH are a colorful bunch in every respect - creative and ready for all the challenges they encounter," says Evi Hübl, manager of the residential building since 1999, in a nutshell.

When a residential home manager speaks of “professional homeland” in connection with their workplace, then that is particularly important and shows how much the employees and those cared for grow together in such a community and literally share their lives.

"The challenges that the handicaps of the residents bring to the house and the simultaneous task of managing a large team with up to 60 employees filled me," adds Hübl.

She is particularly happy when – often only after months or years – the work approaches show success: “If I can give someone back a large part of their quality of life through the use of kinaesthetics, i.e. the teaching of movement, or through our therapy dogs, it just makes me happy,” reports the director.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

While the ASH was initially a house without day care and the pensioners who lived in it went during the day to a group at the Moosburg support center, which has also existed for a quarter of a century this year, the result of a conference in April 2000 was that the seniors also went to want to stay with their groups.

This offer was implemented on July 1, 2000.

In addition, a large majority of the residents of all residential buildings of the Freising Lebenshilfe stated that they would like to grow old in their facility and also want to die there.

"There can hardly be a greater award for us," says Hübl.

A multi-millionaire as a resident

When Hübl chats with the relatives of her residents, she repeatedly hears outsiders telling them that their relatives are so poorly off - because, for example, they are blind, can only move their arms very little, can only speak a few words and use a wheelchair, in which they sit cannot move themselves.

"But the one resident to whom this applies is the happiest person I know," reports Hübl with a laugh.

"She's happy that I go into her room in the morning and wish her good morning.

She's happy when I chat with her while I'm caring for her or when I sing to her - and almost nobody else is happy about that.

She is happy when I read her a story and she almost jumps out of her wheelchair with happiness when she hears her mother, who she sees about every week.”

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The residents receive a visit from llamas once a month.

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Evi Hübl often experiences this special sensitivity and “little happiness”: in 2013, for example, a similarly severely impaired resident died who was happy when her hand was massaged and she was placed kinesthetically on the bed.

When she went for a drive, she heard a raven caw before anyone else.

In addition, there is a resident at ASH who is a multiple multi-millionaire, has been almost everywhere in the world and has experienced many stories there - all only in his imagination, but wonderful to listen to.

Wishful thinking meets harsh reality

The Anneliese-Schweinberger-Haus is a residential building for people with multiple severe disabilities - so-called challenging behavior is always an issue when accompanying these people.

The impression may have arisen that the ASH is all sunshine and sunshine every day, but unfortunately this appearance is deceptive.

Especially in the first few years after the opening, both residents and employees had to listen to discriminatory and anti-disabled statements time and again.

And this despite the fact that Moosburg itself is a handicapped-friendly city.

With good public relations and overcoming barriers in people's minds, this behavior could be almost completely eliminated.

"Of course I'm very happy about that," says Hübl, "especially since we're dealing with completely different difficulties today."

The residents have animal fun when the therapy dogs are used.

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In addition to the challenging behavior that pushes the specialists to the limits of their resilience and temporarily overwhelms them, the constant shortage of staff has become a sad permanent condition.

"We still have many employees who are willing to compensate for a limited period of shortage and thus ensure that the situation has little impact on the quality of our care.

If these motivated employees and qualified specialists are gone one day, our house will definitely have a problem", the manager looks into an uncertain future and reluctantly remembers the time when Corona hit almost all residents and employees at the beginning of 2022.

"Since we all work very closely together and spend almost the entire service time with our caregivers, the disease has spread extremely quickly.

Birthday dreams and visions

However, since ASH leader Evi Hübl is by nature a very optimistic woman, she looks to the future with good courage.

On the occasion of the facility's 50th anniversary in 2047, the director sees in her mind's eye people with severe multiple disabilities living in the midst of society, good means of communication with which all residents can express their wishes and needs, and a self-determined life through the use of technical aids .

There is also a choice between outpatient supported single or couple living or inpatient living and sufficiently motivated staff, since the company has succeeded in making the support and care of people in need of help more attractive again.

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You can find more current news from the district of Freising at Merkur.de/Freising.

Source: merkur

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