Despite the restrictions caused by Corona, Christmas is celebrated in nursing homes – on a small scale. (Jens Kalaene / dpa)
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Christmas was never just contemplative, it was always a logistical challenge – until the gifts are ready, the tree is up, the fairy lights are draped. Not to forget the house blessing that should be hanging right now. This time everything will be even more difficult: Home residents and their relatives have to live with corona-related restrictions. Many look forward to a visit to the festival. At the same time, the personnel situation will worsen over the holidays – caregivers also have families. A get-together should still be possible in the homes.
“We always celebrated huge parties together with the relatives, that is of course not possible now,” says Martina kleine Bornhorst, managing director of Caritas Bremen in the care sector. “But in the living areas, the respective cohorts, common ground and sociability can be cultivated. If no resident has tested positive, life takes place in the living area, including eating together. ”A Caritas housekeeper recently justified the particularly lavish decoration in her facility by stating that under the adverse pandemic conditions, everything should look like Christmas. “In the past you might have said that this is too much of a good thing. But now it’s probably just right. “
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And on the holidays? There will be no quarantine after festive visits to relatives in Caritas homes, says Martina kleine Bornhorst. “After a long wait, we have the rapid tests.” And visits to the home? “You can be with ten people for Christmas, but it is not suitable for pandemics,” says the managing director of the current regulation. “I wouldn’t recommend my 95-year-old mother-in-law to party in such a large group. Sometimes less can be more. ”In view of the crowds, appointments would have to be made for visits to the home. “We have given visiting times and try to do justice to everyone. I would use an hour as a guide for the Christmas visit. “
At the Bremer Heimstiftung, the largest provider in the city with around 3,000 residents, visit concepts have also been created for the houses on the basis of the Corona Ordinance. What was otherwise the norm is now missing, says nursing director Susanne Brockmann: big Christmas parties with four-course menus and music and festive dinners. “The most important thing for us is to share responsibility, everyone has to participate – the mobile residents too.”
Tips for visits
Visits to relatives usually didn’t last long, “and just because you’ve been with relatives for a day doesn’t mean you get infected”, Brockmann is convinced. Preventive quarantine is therefore not an issue. “But we give tips on the way: disinfect the car, wear a mask in the car, keep your distance at home too.”
And in the houses? “We don’t have the capacity to test all visitors, but visits are of course possible” – with a mask and by appointment. “Many relatives who come split up. That has already been practiced from the times of earlier Corona regulations. “It is also clear to Susanne Brockmann:” Christmas will not be quite the same as always. “
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The Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Awo) has not yet clarified whether residents have to be quarantined after visiting relatives, says Petra Sklorz, managing director for the care sector. “Most of them don’t travel for several days anyway.” Visits to the home are also possible. “Large groups are problematic because of the distance rule. We don’t have the premises for that. ”Most of the relatives would have great understanding and many residents were afraid of a corona infection. Controls are necessary.
The Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services (BPA), the organization of private homes, even calls for a limit of one visitor per resident per day. The Bremen state representative of the association, Johanna Kaste, warns of caution: “Whoever brings the relatives in need of care home for Christmas and then sits at the coffee table with ten people, endangers far more people than those present.”
Nurses for briefings
For the advocacy group for care and support (Biva), represented in Bremen by Reinhard Leopold, it is foreseeable: “This Christmas will be a lonely festival.” The staff shortage in the homes is a problem. “And most of the homes do not use external security personnel to instruct the visitors, but rather abuse nursing staff.”
Herwarth Poppe (84), chairman of the residents’ council of a private home in Horn-Lehe, is looking forward to the internal Christmas party without guests. “You never know what is being brought in from the outside.” The reduced Christmas program doesn’t bother him: “I saw the hail of bombs with all its consequences. We have to eat and drink. It’s not that bad. “
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