The elderly
Bethel offers people many opportunities to improve their situation in old age
Growing old can and should be a positive experience. An important prerequisite for this is treating elderly people with dignity and respect. Bethel is committed to this by offering numerous inpatient facilities, outpatient care services, short-term and day care services, assisted living, counselling centres and its geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine departments in many regions of Germany.
Bethel's assistance includes establishing social networks and maintaining contact with communities. Moreover, modern technology can also improve quality of life and reduce the risk of falls, for example. Animal-assisted education, music and art circles also improve quality of life. There are many ways to enhance the lives of our elderly. However, it is not possible to do so without additional financial resources.
Surrounded by people and conversation
Edith Jungk carefully puts one foot in front of the other. She has required care since a knee operation four years ago and also has osteoarthritis. But the 96-year-old can't be stopped. She sets off early from her room in the Lohmannshof care centre to go on a short walk. A little while later, she reaches her destination: at the weekly prayer service in the Bielefeld centre.
Fixed, weekly appointments like this or even making waffles alongside others are very important to her. After all, Edith Jungk enjoys socialising and talking to people.
"Life has become worth living for them again."
As a daughter, she visits her mum regularly and is always happy and relieved when she sees and witnesses how well her mum is doing. Gisela Borgstedt has experienced very different times with her mother and has worried a lot. Such as when Edith Jungk could no longer cope on her own at home.
Or when she initially seemed unable to get going after her knee operation. At the Lohmannshof care centre, the elderly woman received the necessary physiotherapy and also noticeably improved thanks to the other services offered by the facility. She also enjoys a particularly trusting relationship with her carer.
"My mother," summarises Gisela Borgstedt, "is in the best of hands there."
Your support for the elderly in Bethel
Bethel asks for your support so that elderly people in need of care can continue to find a suitable home and live with dignity.
