[D+1] SN-article: allegations against nursing home

“Allegations against the nursing home” Article dated 21.10.2008 in the ‘Salzburger Nachrichten’ (www.salzburg.com)
Display: disabled people should have suffered in a home, due to deficiencies in the staff damage with the Knowledge of the authorities.
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SN article from 21.10.2008: “allegations against the nursing home”

Allegations against nursing home

Display. Disabled people should have suffered in a home, due to deficiencies in the staff damage with the Knowledge of the authorities.

Katja is 20 years old. It is located in a kind of coma - state, is completely unable to move. Image: SN

Anja Kröll Weistrach (SN). The family speaks of a scandal. In the nursing home, we are assured, to have made no mistake. And the Prosecutor's office not to comment on the case. The speech is for residues of alleged abuse in a residential community of the "house of mercy integration Team" (HABIT) in lower Austria, Kirchstetten. Be charged the allegations of Gerhard and Charlotte Lichtenauer, the parents of the severely disabled Katja.

The history: 19 years Ago, the couple Katja took on a slightly handicapped girl. Until it falls, at the age of three and a half years in a kind of twilight state, and around the clock assistance needs. The parents maintain Katja for 15 years at home. Until 2005, the load is too large, and Katja in the HABIT of a on the care of severely disabled people specialized home is located.

"Illegal Expulsion"
There, Katja remains just seven weeks. Then, it's nice to see the Lichtenauers is thrown out. This "illegal care crash" is just one of many allegations that the family in April 2008, brings in a display expressing: "In essence, it is a question that is not sufficiently qualified and authorized personnel was not available (. . .) This precarious personnel situation (. . .) represents a neglect of minors, and endangering their health.“ In conversation with the SN Gerhard Lichtenauer explains: "There was care, care, Hygiene and structural defects. This had an impact on Katie's health.“ You suffer intensified to epileptic seizures, and postural.

HABIT managing Director Wolfgang waldmueller is aware of the allegations. A hazard to health by the staff, he concludes. "We have a staff ratio of one-to-one: a resident a member of staff comes. And our people are very well trained.“ So you have no evidence. So, this is also the case of Sabina early man. Two years you spend to atrophy of the bone of the suffering son Samuel in the same residential community as Katja. After breaking a leg, he has to wear for ten weeks in a cast. Since then, the accusation of the mother, "can't Samuel to sit. I suspect that he was moved little by“. Now, Samuel is cared for back home.

Also, in the case of early man has the HABIT of care deficiencies. The case had been checked – as is the case lichtenauer – several times. Result: no deficits. In the tests, the lower Austrian patient advocacy, the national Association for guardianship and residents ' representation, as well as the Department of social Affairs of the country were involved. Gerhard Lichtenauer speaks of "false tests". "I believe that the state of lower Austria made conscious of nothing against the ills of the HABIT-body. An indication is that it is not the group home, which had been displayed, but it is a totally other has been tested," he says, and goes a step further: "Katie's law was contrary to the agreed get thrown out with the authorities. That was abuse of power.“ Apparently, you have to want the critic to get rid of, to hide abuses.

A family from Ruin
The Land of lower Austria rejects the allegations. "There was no Packelei. We checked in unannounced,“ says Martin Wancata, head of the social Department. And: "It has never been tested in a living community than Katja." An abuse of power so to exclude? "As far as my research shows, Yes," says Wancata. How it goes with the ad, did not comment on the Prosecutor's office of St. Pölten against the SN.

Katie's parents hope for a speedy solution. Because the care is under the 20-Year-old so intense, can go both parents do not work. "We are existentially on the edge, life of 1500 Euro care allowance in the month." Because while the cost in the home (up to 5500 Euro) would be accepted, will be replaced at the care home just a fraction. And the Rest of it? Lichtenauer: "The pay for most members. With social Isolation, physical exhaustion or financial Ruin.“

Gerhard Lichtenauer, Foster-Father

"For the home care
only a fraction of the
Effort replaced.”

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Date Of Last Revision: 18.05.2012

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