„Sie genießen den ersten Urlaub ihres Lebens“ – Entwicklung der offenen Altenhilfe von der Nachkriegszeit bis zum Beginn der 1970er Jahre

  • Gegenstand dieses Beitrags ist die Entwicklung der ambulanten Altenhilfe in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von der Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zum Beginn der 1970er Jahre. Dabei wird hier das Beispiel der Stadt Frankfurt am Main gewählt, eine Stadt, die relativ führend in ihren Angeboten war, deren Entwicklung aber durchaus mit anderen Städten vergleichbar ist und die durch Hinzuziehen von Berichten und Umfragen aus weiteren Orten, die zum Beispiel im Nachrichtendienst des Deutschen Vereins für öffentliche Fürsorge veröffentlicht wurden, mit diesen verglichen wird.
  • <i>“They are enjoying their first holiday ever” – Working with the elderly, from the post-war years up to the early 1970s</i> While, in the post-war years and into the 1950s, the building of old people’s and care homes and the allocation of home places in those homes was seen as the main task of municipal care institutions for the elderly in Frankfurt am Main, in the decade that followed their main task shifted towards increasing the possibilities of providing care in people’s own homes, delaying the move into old people’s homes and breaking through the loneliness that elderly people were presumed to experience. Supported by the state, community housing was provided with flats for elderly people and with carers to look after their needs. The “warm rooms” of the post-war period changed into clubs, where members met and received guidance. In the late 1960s the clubs were extended into day-care centres, offering a range of consultation services, organized day trips and recreational holidays for the elderly. It was hoped that “meals-on-wheels” in combination with age-appropriate living conditions would delay the move into a home. But these plans were not adequately developed in the 1960s and often it was not clear who would pay the bills. The same was true of outpatient medical care which had traditionally been the task of community nurses, but was now increasingly carried out by local authority carers, who also provided household assistance. This kind of care could only ever be given for a limited period of time and, while it was able to delay the move into an old people’s home, it could not replace it.

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Author:Kristina MatronGND
Parent Title (German):Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte
Document Type:Journal Article
Language:German
Date of Publication (online):2017/04/18
Year of first Publication:2014
Release Date:2017/04/18
Volume:32
First Page:111
Last Page:135
Licence (German):License LogoMit freundlicher Genehmigung des jeweiligen Autors / Verlags für Online-Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Zeithistorische Forschungen