title: [Dementia, trauma and transcultural nursing--the complex need for nursing care in Jewish geriatric nursing in Germany].
abstract: Complex nursing requirements are typical for the care of the Jewish elderly in Germany. As an example, the old age home care-center of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is need to show typical needs and care-profiles. Survivors of the holocaust who have survived persecution either in Europe or emigration are living in the center. A few years ago, elderly people who immigrated from the former Soviet Union and arrived in Germany only at age, began living in the center. Because the inhabitants of the center come from 18 different countries, the structure of the residents is multiethnic and therefore more atypical for Germany. The daycare for people suffering from dementia is offered in two languages, which is also a new experience for Germany. The multiethnical and plurilingual orientation of the care center convinced the German Ministry of Health to promote new care-concepts as a model, which are based on these mentioned structures. The author also presents some ideas in order to experience the feeling of being a foreigner, which can be need as a basis for the development of an institutional culture.
authors.affiliation: weitzel@soz.fh-erfurt.de
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Weitzel-Polzer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000639:trends*