stopped Once, as the Lift abruptly, he distributed a whole Zweierli Red. But otherwise, Heinz Kamber (Name changed) has his glass of wine firmly in its grip – and the alcohol on him.
After Breakfast, the 80-drink-Year-old his first glass. If he goes to bed, is a whole carton of red wine empty. Often Kamber ZH sits quietly at his favorite window in the old centre of the forest of peace in Pfäffikon and watching birds. “Look, a Milan,” says Kamber, “I’m also a bit of it: a bird.” But the father of adult children is also different: in the Evening, he scolds the nurse, sometimes a “stupid bitch”.
in Front of the Pension Heinz Kamber has led a business in the Region. In his spare time, he played dance music on the piano.
The daily Tetrapak
at lunch in the old centre sits Kamber always alone. Other residents like to watch movies together, baking cookies. Kamber is not, he takes sometimes the Taxi, driving into the village, drink there, and then realizes that he has too little money for the way back.
Heinz Kamber is addictive. He drinks daily Tetrapak not because of the bouquet, but because of the 13 percent by Volume. This is called the level of 65 years, the most widespread is drinking in humans, six per cent of this age group to maintain, according to the Swiss health survey in 2017, a chronic high-risk consumption. And many of these people live in nursing homes or are cared for by home care organizations.
Is it okay if a resident is drinking a bottle of wine and then tip over?
As the old-age centres in Zurich with a drink to bypass the seniors, wanted to Markus Baumann, Zurich-based GLP-local Council know, by the city Council. He submitted a written question, the answer satisfied him, but only half. “It has made a lot of thoughts. Concrete pilot projects, nails with heads missing.”
That dealing with addiction problems and the old age centres and nursing service organizations are increasingly faced with issues, showing a still unpublished study of the Federal office for health (BAG). The Tenor: Older people with alcohol problems overwhelming part of the institutions. The drinking senior citizens represent a danger to themselves, to their carers, abusive, and harassing your roommate. The facilities often do not know how they should react to it.
special institutions lack
Different factors that accentuate the Problem at the moment in the care of the old age centres, and home care services. There are more and more seniors, as a result, the number of elderly alcohol addicts. In addition, the Problem is exacerbated, according to the BAG-of study, because many psychiatric hospitals closed their long-time departments. This leads to an increase in expenses for the old age centres, and home care services. And: “The alcohol addiction in the elderly has long been trivialized and taboo,” says Domenic Schnoz, head of the Zurich-based specialist Agency for the prevention of substance abuse that accompanies the BAG study. The BAG surveyed institutions treat older people with alcohol problems differently. The study shows that many retirement centers and home care organizations in this issue are still far, especially in the early detection.
“are Mature, The structures in the institutions is often too little,” says study co-author Domenic Schnoz. There are exemplary facilities, but many of the topic was far down on the priority list. Regulated processes and Knowledge is lacking. In addition, the attitudes would be different: it Is okay, if a resident is drinking a bottle of wine and then falls over? For this purpose, there must be a common ethical attitude, as well as a plan of action, as the employees in the everyday life with the alcohol problems of the residents should deal with it.
The study by the Federal office for health shows that specialized institutions can relieve the conventional old-age centres and home care services. But many of these facilities have waiting lists and could currently accommodate people with alcohol problems. In the Canton of Zurich there are two such specialized public homes: one in Zürich-Selnau, one in Pfäffikon. Heinz Kamber live since one and a half years of age, the centre of the forest peace above Pfäffikon. As all residents with alcohol problems, he has completed an agreement. “I have a deal with the leadership, how many glasses of wine I drink every day,” says Kamber: “Three little.” Irene Regions, the head in the forest of peace, look for it later in the documents. She says: “Four.” It is typical that alcoholics talk about their consumption beautiful.
objective: a Controlled consumption
When Heinz Kamber has agreed on four glasses downed, he gets none. Not if he drinks in the village. His wife brings in the two-week cycle of replenishment. The with a felt pen, label carton store in the cellar and will be served by the employees.
In the old centre of the forest of peace is a controlled consumption of the target. The alcohol must be the drugs not compatible, the behavior of Drinking for the inhabitants and employees bearable. A withdrawal is only eligible if the interested parties do not want him. More than half of the 34 residents in the forest of peace have a drinking problem, the rest of the other psychiatric diagnoses. Currently, the age center does not people with an alcohol addiction, although there are always requests. “The Mix has to be right”, says Director Irene Regions. Residents with mental health problems would have a thin layer of protection and are often overwhelmed by the alcoholics.
Social control in the old people’s home
“Heinz Kamber it would have in an ordinary home for the aged is difficult,” says Irene Regions. He might be sidelined due to his Addiction of the other residents. Regions can make a direct comparison, because she also directs a conventional, old-age center, the rose garden in Uster. There is excessive consumption of alcohol was rarely a Problem. “If someone drinks a bottle of Whisky per day, what happened, talk to him,” says Regions. Alcohol agreements, there is not but.
In the old centres, it is easier to detect problems, as when someone lives at home. The residents observe. There is a social control. Nevertheless, it is difficult to identify in older people with alcohol problems, says psychotherapist Petra Soon. Affected often went to the doctor and could treat the symptoms, which masked their Addiction: digestive difficulties, confusion, heart problems. The real Problem – alcohol addiction – remain unresolved. Soon discussions in the Zurich specialist performs for the prevention of alcohol problems. “More and more people who have exceeded the retirement age, come to us,” she says. Be taught them, among other things, by the nurse or by relatives.
Sitting with a zero alcohol level
The elderly often have no structure, the Holding. This includes a lack of human relationships to come. Physical circumstances were conducive to Addiction: “The alcohol is in the age stronger and remains longer in the body,” says Soon. In the deliberations of the Zurich Department for alcohol-related problems to work in small steps. Try, for example, the Sitting of the grandchildren, for once, with a zero alcohol level.
For GLP-Council Markus Baumann is clear: It takes in the whole Canton of Zurich, the opportunities for older people with alcohol problems and a reliable, common line. So that people such as Heinz Kamber can continue sitting at your favorite window. Times introspective, at times quick-tempered. And, above all, as self-determined as possible.
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Created: 20.02.2019, 21:56 PM
