The Newsletter of the Foundation informed AGE four times a year on news from the region living in old age. It reports on activities of the Foundation Age and other current events that affect the housing for the elderly.
AGE AWARD:
competition to Palliative Care: Closing date 30th September 2008
with a public tender Age explores the foundation for the next Age Award-patient institution, who lives a better palliative care approach. The competition is stationary institutions in the age range. The winner receives CHF 250,000, the winning project will be filmed. The participation form and more information can be found here ...
EXTERNAL NEWS:
information on Palliative Care
CURAVIVA, the Association of Homes and institutions in Switzerland, has spent about two years intensively with the topic Palliative Care In September 2007 she released the publication "places to live - places of death" Palliative Care in nursing institutions. Together with Caritas Switzerland offers CURAVIVA an institution-house training for optimal support and care at the end of life. "The complete life," say the modular course for nursing homes. In the same framework, a tool for determining location is created you can check with the nursing institutions continue to work in Palliative Care. NEW offers CURAVIVA first time from autumn 2008 to a course in palliative care, which is aimed at professionals in the field of care. More information You will find here ...
INVESTMENTS:
carrier-initiated household type in
At the fire road in a quiet examination results by the end of 2009, central location of a Community building over three cooperatives. The house, which generates the Gewo Züri East comprises 19 apartments and various community facilities. It is directed under the name "plus / minus 50" to (re) childless households. The building is designed so that a possible fate into older age. The interest in the eight 2 ½ - 3 ½ and the eleven-room flats is high. The project management is currently accepting appropriate inquiries, still under-represented are men. more ...
INVESTMENTS:
children and the elderly care day
change with the change in population structure, the space needs in the communities. A classic example is the vacancy of former school buildings. In Niederscherli (BE) were born of private initiative, in close cooperation with the community, a nursery for 12 children, a youth club, a toy library and a public zumietbarer meeting room for various uses. This offering is now a relief for family caregivers. In the same building, but with a separate entrance, is to be a supervised day care center for elderly people to care. more ...
AGE PROJECTS:
New release: New housing in the second half of life
We are not only older, we work longer, are more active and enterprising, as it were our grandparents. Thus the second half of life is now marked for many people of diverse activities that require a self-determined action with and without disabilities or other limitations. In this context is the question of living arrangements, which allow these longer and becoming more important stage of life according to their own to make wishes and needs. In addition to that of the majority of older people still favored living in their ancestral home, new community living such neighborhood, house or residential communities, intergenerational housing projects, different models of housing with care and Wohngruppen.Vor this background, well-known authors consider the various aspects of the second phase of life. In addition, in Switzerland and Germany, completed projects are presented and their practical application is analyzed. The edition is from ETH LIVING Living Forum, an interdisciplinary research center at the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, published. It presents selected topics from the broad field of housing and is aimed at a specialist-general and a culture-interested audience. Website: ETH Wohnforum
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