On a spring morning, the thermometer shows -1.5 degrees. The sky is blue, the sun is shining. “How nice, today I’ll put on my dress and sandals when we go shopping,” says Erna, the 78-year-old mother of a client who
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Retirement home lets residents sleep in and gains new skilled workers as a result. Wake-up call at 6:30 a.m. Then it is time to wash and be seated at the breakfast table in the dining room by 8 a.m. at
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Everyone knows that laughter makes life easier. And that Germans go to the cellar to laugh, unfortunately, too. It has been researched that the body reduces stress hormones through laughter, similar to sport. In contrast to sport, however, laughter as
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When the summer reaches 30 degrees and the nights are tropical, it becomes unbearably hot, especially for older people. Dr. Julia Schoierer has been researching heat resistance in nursing homes at the LMU Hospital in Munich for almost ten years.
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