End for Community Nursing in the Perg district: What's coming now?

End for Community Nursing in the Perg district: What's coming now?

In the district of Perg, the innovative project Community Nursing will not be continued. Although it has been successful in several communities such as Pabneukirchen and St. Georgen/Walde since summer 2022 in cooperation with the Red Cross, the financing will be discontinued at the end of 2024. Gerhard Lindner from the Social Welfare Association Perg (SHV) confirmed the attitude to inquiries from Meinverzirge Perg. The 100 percent funding by the EU is not extended, and both the country and the federal government see no way to take over the financing. This means that the affected communities and the SHV are unable to finance the service.

The two committed “community hospitals”, Manuela Burgstaller and Karolin Schwaiger, continue to work at the SHV, while the use of the valuable resources in the community will end from the end of 2024. The Pabneukirchen senior citizens' association, whose obed women, Zäzilia Hintersteiner and Hildegard Payreder, reacted to the positive feedback to the Community Nursing. They emphasize the importance of prevention programs, which are of great benefit, especially for seniors. Their conviction is that such preventive programs could avoid high future costs elsewhere.

takeover by the base

The popular nursing workshops, which were also part of the project, will continue to exist; However, they are taken over by the social-medical base. The last nursing workshop is currently taking place in the Seniorium Bad Kreuzen, where it is very well received. The offer was particularly well attended in the western parts of the district and is now continued in a different form, with the SHV taking responsibility for coordination.

The Community Nursing project was part of an Austria-wide project that was funded by the EU. The aim was to involve qualified health and nursing staff in the communities. This community only offered needs -based, free support on site for older people who lived at home and needed help. The chairman of the SHV, Werner Kreisl, explained at the beginning of the project that the offer was aimed at older people, advice, care or support needed, as well as to their relatives.

With the attitude of the community, not only the services in this area end up, but also an important chapter in the health care of the seniors in the district of Perg. The reactions to the planned attitude are diverse and illustrate the high importance that such programs are in society.

For more detailed information on the motives and details of this decision, see the current reports on www.meinbezirk.at .